The Woman Everyone Hated Has Given Up

When Yue Tan was alive, everyone hated her, even dogs seemed to. Everyone who saw her wanted to call her useless, cowardly, and a traitor.

They blamed her for being the only survivor of the Battle of Tianjian Gorge. They wanted her dead, yet the Saint Gu inside her forced them to keep her alive, carving flesh from her body and drawing her blood to make medicine.

After eighteen years trapped in a cage, Yue Tan finally died.

When the seal formation at Tianjian Gorge shattered, she threw herself into the Nether River. Not a trace of her body remained.

Only after she died did those people learn that Yue Tan had never lied about the defeat at Tianjian Gorge.

The Grandmasters who had guarded the gorge had already been possessed by its demons. Their remaining consciousness had begged Yue Tan to kill them.

No one knew how Yue Tan had crossed that blood-soaked path, what she had felt as she turned the tide of battle, or how she had kept the formation at Tianjian Gorge going for eighteen years.

No one knew that Yue Tan had never wanted to be a Grandmaster, a savior, or the Host of the Saint Gu.

All she wanted was to sleep beneath the flowers with her head on a stone, dream of butterflies, and wait for her eldest senior sister to wake her and take her home.

After the Battle of Tianjian Gorge, Xie Jichou had a sliver of her true spirit left.

She watched Yue Tan leave with relief, then recuperated in the Nether River, waiting for the day they might reunite.

She hadn't imagined that what awaited her would be Yue Tan's leap into the river eighteen years later.

The person she loved most was now lying in the Nether River, never to wake again.

Didn't Master say that her junior sister carrying the Saint Gu was a blessing for Taiyi?

Didn't Su Hansheng say that knowing her junior sister was her good fortune?

Why were they still alive when her junior sister was dead?

Between life and death, pain and regret meant nothing.

Xie Jichou had once been Taiyi's sword for slaying demons. Now her sword was broken and her cultivation destroyed, and she had become an evil fiend.

Theme: Pursuing fulfillment of the self