I Never Got a Redemption Arc

Cang Ling was sealed beneath the Lake of Forgetfulness.

A hundred years of solitude stretched on. Unable to escape, she could only occasionally use a body double to go outside and amuse herself.

Once, while cracking melon seeds and watching the Four Great Sanctuaries' joint tournament, she happened to see cultivators bullying the weak and sucking up to the strong.

Cang Ling cleaved through the crowd with a single sword stroke, giving the frail, pitiful boy a shadow of her sword to protect him.

Another time, she was passing by the foot of a mountain with an armful of storybooks when an evil entity that had infiltrated the Eastern Sanctuary slaughtered an entire peak and framed a young man whose demonic soul had awakened.

Oh, him again.

Cang Ling couldn't bear to see him falsely accused and wronged. She swore by the Liuhuo Curse, disregarding the cost, to prove his innocence.

Once, she watched him be cursed by thousands, stripped of his cultivation, his tendons and bones broken, and thrown into the Demon-Melting Abyss.

Cang Ling intervened in one last bit of meddling. She turned herself into a spiritual barrier, protecting him as he sank into the blazing depths.

Using her body-double technique consumed vast amounts of spiritual energy. Cang Ling fell into a deep sleep, but one day she was jolted awake by the sound of splashing water.

Feng Xuezhou, the great demon king who now terrified all Four Great Sanctuaries, cleaved through ten thousand feet of water with one sword strike and shattered a thousand layers of curses. He reached out to her with delight.

"I've had such a hard time finding you."

Cang Ling thought, the plan worked. She was finally free.

.

Feng Xuezhou had suffered hardship and bullying as a boy. Only one person had ever shown him warmth. She had led him out of desperate situations several times, only to vanish before his eyes each time.

Feng Xuezhou refused to believe that the moon in the water had shattered and that it had all been a dream. He searched for Cang Ling for a hundred years.

Until the day he overturned the Lake of Forgetfulness and pulled Cang Ling out, only to be met with a sword strike from her, aimed at killing demons and vanquishing evil. Only then did he learn that all her kindness and rescue had been nothing but a scheme.

Feng Xuezhou hated deception most of all. He swore to take revenge on Cang Ling and make her wish she were dead.

But in the end, when Cang Ling charged alone into the Four Great Sanctuaries and defied the Heavenly Dao, he took hundreds of deadly attacks for her. Even covered in wounds, he insisted on standing in front of her.

[Reading Guide]

Spoiled, arrogant dark moonlight × sharp-tongued but soft-hearted, powerful and tragic beauty

# We're genius girls. Our motto is: if we don't like it, we fight!

# Before I met Cang Ling: Isn't that too arrogant, vicious, and rude...?

After I met Cang Ling: Watch me cut this idiot down with one sword!

Theme: Strive tirelessly