Shen Lingqiu is the foremost cultivator of the righteous path, graceful and detached from worldly concerns. Lin Yuan is a demon who insists on competing with him.
When Shen Lingqiu obtains a rare sword today, Lin Yuan wants an even better one tomorrow.
When Shen Lingqiu advances a level in cultivation today, she wants to advance two.
They often fight and have been at odds for a thousand years.
Then, during a war between immortals and demons, Lin Yuan dies.
As she closes her eyes, she sees Shen Lingqiu stumbling toward her.
She thinks he's probably coming to finish her off.
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When she opens her eyes again, Lin Yuan has been reborn in the body of an utterly ordinary female cultivator.
She hears that a sword immortal who fell to the demonic path is imprisoned in Youlan Valley. His cultivation is profound, and he's the perfect cultivation partner.
For revenge, she'll do anything!
Even trick a terrifying sword immortal into cultivating together!
She secretly slips a pill into the sword immortal's medicinal bath. Through the hazy steam, Lin Yuan recognizes Shen Lingqiu, lying in the bath with a flushed face.
What a twist of fate.
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Lin Yuan plans to finish Shen Lingqiu off when he lets his guard down, but accidentally finds beneath his pillow the old hair ribbon she'd thrown away.
Later, she finds in his cabinet the wooden sword of hers that had broken long ago, along with every challenge letter she'd sent him over the years.
...What?
At last, Lin Yuan comes to a conclusion: Shen Lingqiu has kept them as trophies from the war between immortals and demons, the spoils of having killed her!
*
At last, the day of Lin Yuan's revenge arrives.
She raises her sword and leaves him with a brief, decisive farewell: "Shen Lingqiu, goodbye."
But before she can take two steps, she falls into a warm, cool embrace. The man she'd trapped with a formation is standing perfectly well behind her, calling her by the name she used to have, his voice low and heavy.
Full of longing and reproach.
"A Yuan, are you going to leave me again?"
#I don't know, I thought my wife liked strong guys#
Theme: A life of growing stronger