The Ice-Cold Beauty Turned Out to Be My Ex-Husband

Pre-release: "Cultivating the Unfeeling Way in the Hehuan Sect." Click to read about a powerful, eccentric couple who are always stabbing each other in the back.

Here is this novel's blurb:

Everyone knows that Wei Zhao is a man of noble character, as flawless as jade and frost, an untouchable flower on a high peak. No one knows that he keeps a demon locked up in his residence.

And not just any demon, but the most dangerously alluring one of them all.

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Qiong Acuo never imagined that after properly cultivating for a hundred and eighty years as a papaya spirit, she would be hurled into the street before even taking human form. By sheer bad luck, she knocked out a handsome young gentleman.

When Wei Zhao woke, the lightning tribulation that would let her take human form struck. He took the tribulation for her, and from then on, the human and the demon were bound together in life and death. With no other choice, Qiong Acuo pretended to be well-behaved and stayed by his side.

At first, Wei Zhao kept his distance, deliberately cold toward her.

But as time went by, she gradually realized that Wei Zhao was starting to act strangely.

One day, after drinking too much, she flirted with a young man from another family. Wei Zhao pinned her against a wall and kissed her, his eyes so full of affection that they seemed ready to burn her.

Qiong Acuo silently reminded herself that humans and demons belonged to different worlds, and refused to acknowledge his feelings for her.

She was a demon, pretty and vivacious, and unwittingly got herself into all sorts of trouble. Wei Zhao calmly cleaned up her messes without complaint. That is, until she eloped with someone and fled, without leaving him a single word.

When Wei Zhao heard the news, he crushed the jade cup in his hand, his palm bloody and his eyes dark.

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Three years later, they meet again. She is covered in scars and imprisoned by the Demon-Suppression Bureau.

He is a rising star at court, his power at its height.

Wei Zhao stands outside her cell, his gaze deep and unreadable. He smiles faintly and says, "You may not believe me, but I've waited thousands of years to meet you."

"But you've only ever had eyes for other people."

Qiong Acuo: "...And?"

"And," Wei Zhao says, slowly taking out chains and a demon-binding talisman, "he couldn't protect you, and there's always someone trying to hurt you. So I'll have to use a few measures to keep you bound to my side and protect you forever."

Since you struck me, then for all eternity... you will be mine alone, bound to me by fate. No matter how harshly Heaven's Dao condemns me or how much the world despises me, I will never let go.

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A female lead who plays it safe when she can, but charges in when there's trouble, occasionally does something nasty, and can really fight × a male lead who is usually restrained and proper, but intermittently gets jealous and loses his mind, a high-and-mighty flower on a high peak.

Qiong Acuo × Wei Zhao

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Other:

There will be plenty of messy love-triangle drama. But the leads only love each other, are firmly one-on-one, and are each other's first and only. Happy ending.

That's it. Enjoy reading.

Here is the blurb for the pre-release novel:

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I only ask that the moon hang high in the sky. I don't care whether it shines on me alone.

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Everyone knows that there are two notorious pitfalls in the cultivation world: the Hehuan Sect and the Unfeeling Way.

The former acts with abandon, while the latter is feared by all.

Shen Jixue is unfortunate enough to be involved with both.

She cultivates the Unfeeling Way in the Hehuan Sect.

After cultivating for hundreds of years, she is on the verge of ascension when Heaven's Dao demands that she kill her husband to prove her Dao.

Her master pulls her aside and patiently reminds her: the sect's rules forbid trampling on true feelings or betraying a good partner. She must never break them.

Shen Jixue takes this to heart. To avoid harming a good partner, she searches the world and finds a cultivation partner who also practices the Unfeeling Way. At their very first meeting, they make an agreement: "Each gets what they need. We kill our husband or wife to prove our Dao."

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After stabbing each other at their wedding ceremony, she ascends gloriously to the Celestial Realm to guard the gates. Her cultivation partner, who also practiced the Unfeeling Way, dies, his body and Dao destroyed.

Shen Jixue is gloomy for a while, puzzled for a while, then sad for a while, before putting the matter out of her mind.

While chatting, the guards of the Celestial Realm mention that Emperor Liwang wandered the mortal world for a thousand years, finally rekindling the fated bond that Heaven's Dao had severed long ago. But on his wedding night, his partner stabbed him through the heart with a sword. Trapped in the cycle of reincarnation by love and unable to meet a happy end, the emperor is pitied by all. They all lament that his partner was a truly terrible person.

Shen Jixue nods in agreement.

But she has a vague feeling... that the story sounds familiar.

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Hundreds of years later, news spreads through the Celestial Realm that Emperor Liwang has returned after undergoing tribulation. Shen Jixue joins the other immortals to see the excitement.

There, amid the endless sea of clouds, in a towering palace, sits the very partner she once stabbed herself. Shen Jixue thinks, This is bad. The next moment, in full view of everyone, Emperor Liwang passes over the rest and walks up to her, displeased. He winds red string around both their wrists and tries to drag her back into the cycle of reincarnation.

Shen Jixue: "Your Majesty, is it possible that you might, perhaps, have mistaken me for someone else?"

Emperor Liwang: "Don't worry. I'm not blind."

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After several lives in the cycle of reincarnation, Shen Jixue accidentally learns the secret of the Unfeeling Way and finally remembers what happened long ago.

Those who cultivate the Unfeeling Way must kill someone who loves them dearly, with an undying love, if they wish to ascend.

And at the beginning of creation, at the origin of the Unfeeling Way, she lay covered in blood in Emperor Liwang's arms and promised him, "In the next life, just wait until the next life, and we'll be together forever."

Unfortunately, things didn't go as planned.

Heaven's Dao... what a clever scheme.

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When Shen Jixue ascends, Xie Zhuo believes he will never see her again in this life. His soul wanders the underworld for a hundred years before he finally decides to let go. When he wakes from a dream, he has become Emperor Liwang of the Celestial Realm, and the person he has longed for over countless years is right beside him.

So what if he feels guilty? He'll force the issue anyway.

They are each other's first and only. Happy ending.

Other:

1. The female lead will become the only god in the world.

2. The male lead is a fan of the female lead's career.

3. The Unfeeling Way and the Hehuan Sect are entirely the author's inventions, with no reference to any source material.

That's it. Enjoy reading.

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