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In the second year after the Xiao Clan had joined the ranks of the great cultivation sects, Mingzhao accompanied her father and brother to the Qionghua Banquet in the capital.
She fell in love at first sight with Xie Fuguang, Lord Yuling, whose character was as bright and pure as the moon and whose manner was aloof and refined.
The Xiao Clan was a small, humble family, unworthy of the Xie Clan, foremost among the cultivation sects.
Everyone said she was delusional and urged her to give up as soon as possible.
But Mingzhao firmly believed that if she kept pursuing him, she'd eventually get everything she wanted, and spent three hundred years showing him her affection, come rain or shine.
It led to no shortage of embarrassing incidents.
As the years passed, before anyone knew it, she was the only one allowed close to Lord Yuling.
Just as everyone thought she had truly won the favor of the Xie Clan and was about to soar to the heights of fortune, Xie Fuguang brought a mortal girl back from the human realm.
The two were inseparable.
Even when he went out to quell disturbances, Lord Yuling brought her along.
In the endless spring rain, as demons and ghosts slaughtered their way through the land, Mingzhao witnessed Xie Fuguang attack her brother to protect the girl in his arms.
In her desperation, she threw herself in the way. She was gravely injured, fell unconscious, and was carried off by the demons and ghosts.
Her fate was unknown.
Everyone lamented.
What a tragic love story. That young daughter of the Xiao family had suffered so much.
*
When Mingzhao opened her eyes again, she had forgotten everything from her past.
A handsome young man with black hair and dark eyes smiled at her. "Mingzhao, you're my betrothed. We've loved each other since childhood."
Mingzhao believed him.
The young man told her that Xie Fuguang of the Xie Clan of Xuling, Lord Yuling, was heartless and hypocritical, a shameless false gentleman who had hunted them down for years. If she ever saw him again, she must kill him at once.
Mingzhao, who vaguely recalled a memory of "Xie Fuguang drawing his sword to kill her," nodded in deep agreement.
*
Many years later, everyone learned that Mingzhao wasn't the only one to fall in love at first sight at the Qionghua Banquet.
There was also a half-demon boy with a cursed bone, hidden away in a corner where no one could see him.
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All male characters are romantically untouched, with multiple men competing for the heroine.
Neither the male lead nor the male supporting characters have romantic entanglements with anyone else.
Core message: Love yourself before loving someone else.
