My Former Fiancé Came Back from the Dead

The Ex-Fiancé Came Back from the Dead

Bai Ying once had a fiancé. He was dazzlingly gifted, a prodigy who, at a young age, drew the immortal sword Zhanfang from the Huajian Sect.

A hundred years ago, he went alone into the Sinfire Purgatory to save the goddess of the Divine Capital. He obtained the elixir that could save her, but perished in the Sinfire Purgatory himself.

And so he became Bai Ying's former fiancé. People looked at her with complicated, pitying expressions, mixed with mockery and knowing insinuations.

But Bai Ying didn't care. She was still the eldest daughter of the Bai family, and would most likely become an elder of the family in the future. She could even try for the position of family head. Besides, she had a handsome new fiancé.

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What Bai Ying never expected was that her former fiancé, whom the world believed had died a hundred years ago, would emerge alive from the Sinfire Purgatory. The news spread across every province.

But none of this had anything to do with Bai Ying anymore. Seated high in a tower, she watched at her leisure as the once-peerless prodigy tried to survive in a world that had moved on a hundred years without him.

His goddess was engaged to someone else. His old friends had grown distant. His sect's positions had all been taken by rising talents. Even the spirit sword he once wielded had become scrap metal, and the mountain where he used to live no longer belonged to him.

Bai Ying gave a cold laugh. She wanted to see if this once-peerless prodigy could get back on his feet.

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In less than a year, her former fiancé had ascended the twelve steps of the immortal gate, and even a spirit sword lost to the world for centuries had become his own.

Everyone wondered when he would propose to the goddess, and whether the two tragic lovers, separated for a hundred years, could be together again.

But at that very moment, Bai Ying knew she was about to enter a deadly trap. She stared impatiently at her former fiancé, who stood in her way, and said coldly, "A hundred years ago, I tried to stop you from entering the Sinfire Purgatory, and you told me, 'It's none of your business.'"

"And now..." She enunciated every word. "I'm giving those words back to you."

Her former fiancé's fingers tightened around his spirit sword until they turned white.

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Bai Ying and her former fiancé had been apart for a hundred years. Time was not the only thing between them. They also carried secrets they'd never revealed to each other.

[Note]:

For ease of storytelling, the novel includes both the female lead's and the male lead's perspectives.

Theme: Never give up hope, no matter the circumstances