The fallen phoenix Sang Wanwan has only just taken up her post at the Heavenly Court's Incense Office when she's sent to a station in the mortal realm. Caught in turbulent air currents as she descends, she accidentally injures a young man.
The young man is graceful and bright, with an exceptional constitution. Unfortunately, she damaged his brain, and he lost his memory.
Sang Wanwan has no choice but to keep him by her side. She teaches him cultivation, and he helps her bestow blessings. They get along splendidly.
But good times don't last. When the Demon Realm rises in chaos, the young man dies saving her. Sang Wanwan can only feed him her phoenix core before rushing to the Heavenly Court, gravely wounded, to deliver the news.
As soon as she reaches the Heavenly Court, two pieces of news hit her like a blow.
Good news: The young man isn't dead. He has been reborn through her core.
Bad news: He's the mastermind behind the chaos in the Demon Realm, a Demon King bent on overthrowing the Three Realms.
Sang Wanwan: ?!
#How could the white lotus I raised with my own hands possibly be the Great Demon King?
You reap what you sow, so Sang Wanwan is sent back to the lower realm to clean up the mess she's made.
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Mu Yunzhang has two souls in one body, good and evil coexisting. As a boy, he personally killed his good soul and became the terrifying Great Demon King.
Who could have known that a clueless rookie would come crashing down from the sky and knock Mu Yunzhang back into his youth? His good soul revived, and he became his old, useless self again.
"He" takes the rookie as his master and works hard at cultivation. The naive girl and the foolish boy live carefree and unrestrained lives together.
The rookie even tries to match "him" with other female immortals, dreaming of one day enjoying the good life with grandchildren, yet she fails to notice the increasingly obsessive feelings in "his" eyes.
Only Mu Yunzhang knows that the twisted desire in "his" heart is growing wildly, until his heart burns like a prairie fire.
"Want her? I can help you get her."
The evil soul tempts him. "He" grows increasingly out of control, unknown to everyone. By day, the cool and composed junior disciple, but every night he watches his master from nearby, sinking deeper into love and desire.
Later, "he" dies, only to be brought back to life by the rookie.
But who exactly did she bring back?
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Later, the young Demon King, eyes red, pins her in front of him. Ignoring the knife she holds trembling against his heart, he says, each word deliberate: "Kill me, and I'll let him come back."
"Or come love me."
Theme: Fate is decided by heaven, but success takes seven parts hard work
