After the Forced-Love Story Gets Its Happy Ending

My name is Yu Qing. I'm an ordinary person, too frail to look after myself. Fortunately, I have a childhood friend who can do just about anything.

From hunting demons and vanquishing ghosts to embroidery and cooking, there's nothing he isn't good at. He's a little dull, but handsome. His only weaknesses are that he's blind and stutters a bit.

Other people are always criticizing him, but I don't mind.

He's the husband I chose for myself. My feelings for him aren't especially strong, but I still want to grow old with him. I'm selfish and possessive, so even if I died, I'd want my husband to stay by my grave and no one else's. He'd certainly do that for me.

But what I didn't expect was this:

That day, he took me to the Immortal Sects' Gathering of Heroes. Holding my hand, he told me that the first-place prize was a beautiful magical robe, one that could withstand fire and water and keep demons and ghosts away. It would protect me even when he wasn't there. He wanted to win it and make it my wedding dress.

I happily nodded and said yes.

He was truly strong, and won first place just as he'd hoped.

But then the mad old ancestor of one of the Immortal Sects seized me by force. He was powerful and insane, and treated me as a substitute for someone else.

I resisted for a long time, but in the end I couldn't fight him off. Eventually, it felt as if neither my body nor my heart belonged to me anymore. After all that twisted, agonizing love with the old ancestor, I was swept up in his warped affection and married him.

My childhood friend was furious. He wanted to take me back, and became a world-destroying villain, falling into the ghost path.

After he fell into the ghost path, his blindness disappeared and he could see. The day he fought the mad old ancestor, he saw me standing behind him as his wife, and was dazed for a long time.

He stared at me intently, then closed his eyes and let the old ancestor's sword pierce him, plunging into the endless Ghost Abyss.

"Shentu Chun!" I suddenly screamed. Lifting my skirt, I threw myself after him into the Ghost Abyss.

In that moment, it felt as if some force had torn my soul apart.

But it didn't matter anymore. I never wanted to be a puppet on strings again.

Draft saved on July 3, 2024

Theme: Change your fate and stay true to yourself.