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Xie Yinxi was once the foremost sword cultivator of the righteous path.
She bound an Azure Dragon, subdued demons, and when a nine-tailed fox ravaged the mortal realm, she cut off one of its tails and sealed the monster beneath a pagoda.
She guarded cities and protected the people. With a few words of guidance from her, a fellow disciple who had suffered endless bullying broke through and entered the Dao.
Countless cultivators revered her, and countless evil spirits hated her.
Until the day of the calamity, when Xie Yinxi spent all her cultivation and gave her life to save the world.
Her sword vanished and her Dao perished, leaving all grudges behind. Her only regret was that she hadn't sealed Yin Xuehan, the Lord of the Ghost Domain, who had fought her for years.
When Xie Yinxi opened her eyes again, a hundred years had passed in the mortal realm.
In the intervening century, the Demon-Sealing Pagoda had collapsed in the calamity, and monsters and evil spirits had returned to the Nine Provinces.
The Dragon Lord repeatedly tried to steal her broken sword, the nine-tailed fox insisted on digging up her grave, and the junior fellow disciple she had once guided had fallen into demonic cultivation, raving like a madman.
Xie Yinxi, inexplicably brought back to life: ...
The only consolation was that her nemesis, Yin Xuehan, had abandoned evil and joined the righteous path, subduing demons and protecting the world.
Xie Yinxi caught a glimpse of him from afar. The young man in dark robes had cool, refined features, like a pine tree dusted with snow, with none of the viciousness and menace he once possessed.
She heard that it was thanks to him that her broken sword had been protected and her grave preserved.
After spending years urging him to turn to the good, Xie Yinxi felt rather gratified.
What she didn't know was that beneath Yin Xuehan's bedroom, the bones of her enemies had been laid to build a staircase, and books on resurrection secrets were piled up like mountains.
Nor did she know that one day Yin Xuehan would recognize her true identity, his cool detachment gone, replaced by an overwhelming aura of ghosts.
The evil spirit who had once fought her to the death had red-rimmed eyes, his sword aimed straight at her heart. His murderous intent wove itself into an obsessive fixation.
He said, "You can only die by my hand."
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Yin Xuehan was devoted to one person.
Then she died.
So he took up his sword and guarded her world.
[Reading Guide]
1. A gentle, noble heroine with an air of spring sunshine, beloved by everyone and the idealized first love of most characters.
2. A little enemies-to-lovers romance where they try to kill each other.
Theme: Keep kindness in your heart.
