When she was little, her adoptive father sold her to a mountain sect for one tael of silver.
After spending fifteen years as an outer disciple, Leng Yirou was found by her relatives, who arranged an undignified marriage for her.
She took her older sister's place and married Yun Laizi of Mount Penglai, becoming his Daoist partner in a loveless marriage for a hundred years.
In truth, Yun Laizi had a disciple whose damaged spiritual root needed a bowl of Leng Yirou's blood every day to keep him alive.
After the disciple's spiritual root recovered, he refused to call her "Master's wife" and secretly slaughtered the village Leng Yirou had protected.
A disciple of the demonic sect seduced Leng Yirou, promising to love her forever. If she killed Yun Laizi, they could run away together.
After their plan succeeded, Leng Yirou was imprisoned in the abyss by her lover, the Demon Venerable, who tempered her spiritual root day after day.
At last, she remembered: this was the plot of an old-fashioned xianxia novel. The master and disciple in love were the protagonists, the Demon Venerable was the villain, and Yun Laizi hadn't actually died. He had seen through their scheme and faked his death, deceiving everyone. In their tumultuous story, Leng Yirou was the sect master's wife, a wicked and foolish woman who met a miserable end.
The ridiculous plot, the melodramatic fate: once she awakened, Leng Yirou became desperate to claw her way out of the abyss and personally kill her enemies, one by one.
In the abyss, besides demons like her, there were also sleeping ancient gods.
She made a wish to them and received an egg.
Later, the egg hatched into a little girl who looked exactly like Leng Yirou as a child.
Leng Yirou took the little girl's hand and set out to kill her enemies, but the girl couldn't tear her eyes away from the candied hawthorns by the roadside.
That night, the girl drooled in her sleep and murmured, "What do candied hawthorns taste like?"
Leng Yirou didn't know either. She tossed and turned all night. This wouldn't do!
She might never have tasted candied hawthorns, but little Yirou had to! Revenge could wait!
Soon, she realized this wasn't working. Her revenge was taking far too long!
Leng Yirou: "Let's kill the bad guys first, then I'll buy you a pretty dress. How does that sound?"
Little dumpling: "Okay, okay. Kiss, Master."
The little dumpling she'd once held in her arms to sleep grew into a young woman in the blink of an eye, and she kept sneaking into Leng Yirou's bed in the middle of the night, completely naked.
Theme: Love yourself