Zhu Qingmian, a paragon of the righteous path, died. When she awoke again, she had gone back a thousand years and become an ordinary cultivator. There, she met Xiao Luli, who was still a mortal and not yet the overlord of the demonic path.
In her previous life, she died on the battlefield during the campaign to kill Xiao Luli. In this life, she took him away, trying to turn the future leader of the demonic path toward righteousness and strengthen the righteous path.
For his sake, Zhu Qingmian could give up all her cultivation and fall from a celestial maiden to an ordinary person among the masses.
She could even abandon the body she had possessed, become a ghost, and never enter the cycle of reincarnation, remaining forever trapped beneath An Mountain.
She never expected that
Her death would be his tribulation.
*
Zhu Qingmian thought she would never wake again.
But she opened her eyes all the same, meeting a pair of icy eyes stained crimson.
When Xiao Luli saw that she was awake, his stern features relaxed. His long, icy fingers traced the corner of her lips, and the scent of blood spread from his fingertips.
He said coldly, "Did I have to destroy the whole world before you'd come back?"
Zhu Qingmian did not answer. She watched indifferently as the Slaughter Curse slowly devoured his soul, trying to drag him into hell.
She reached out, put a hand behind his neck, and pulled him close. "Come here. Transfer the Slaughter Curse to me."
Xiao Luli stiffened.
He leaned down, almost jealously gripping her slender waist. "I really don't understand. You've never loved me. Why keep sacrificing yourself like this?"
"For the righteous path."
"..."
Xiao Luli sneered. "You're insane."
Zhu Qingmian brushed her hand over the soul-locking Slaughter Curse covering his body.
The blood curse had carved deep into his skin. His wounds could not heal, and his soul could not be saved, all just to bring her, a dead soul, back.
Her gaze was profound as she smiled faintly. "You're not so different."
Reader's Guide:
1. At first, the heroine is genuinely raising a child and has no ulterior thoughts. She's obsessive and deeply devoted to her convictions.
2. Fake replacement romance / true regret and redemption / white moonlight / not a wish-fulfillment story.
3. The leads are several hundred years apart in age. There are both sweet and angsty moments.
4. Cultivation ranks: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul, Body Integration, and Great Ascension.
Theme: Be self-reliant and never give up
