After Being Stabbed by the One I Loved

Another historical romance coming soon: She Regretted Breaking Off the Engagement After Being Reborn

Blurb:

Ye Ning was born in the countryside. By a twist of fate, she became a disciple of the Tianxuan Sect, the lowest-ranking talisman cultivator in the sect.

On her very first day there, she fell in love at first sight with her senior, Chu Wuyan.

Chu Wuyan came from the prestigious Chu family of the immortal sects and was the chief disciple of the Tianxuan Sect's Venerable Wuji, the Sword Master.

He was handsome as jade, with bright, starry eyes, and his mastery of the Flowing Cloud Sword Technique was breathtaking.

Ye Ning admired him for ten years and went to every length to win his favor.

She risked entering the forbidden prison for him and cut out a demon's core. When he reached a bottleneck in his cultivation, she even cut out her own spirit bone to help him survive his tribulation.

But in all those ten years, Chu Wuyan never spared Ye Ning a second glance. Instead, she offended a senior sister who was in love with him too.

Stealing immortal herbs, poisoning people with talismans, conspiring with demons to slaughter her fellow disciples...

The senior sister pinned all these accusations on Ye Ning.

And Chu Wuyan believed her, expelling Ye Ning from the sect.

Ye Ning remembered that it was the second spring after she left the sect.

The wisteria bloomed just as demons and ghosts slaughtered a village, staining the brilliant spring blossoms a shocking red.

Chu Wuyan fell into a trap set by the demons and ghosts while saving the senior sister.

Unable to stand by, Ye Ning risked her life to rescue him, only for him to mistake her for an accomplice of the demons.

He ran her through the heart with his sword.

Ye Ning was utterly disillusioned.

With her dying breath, she condensed her life's cultivation into a fatal talisman and struck him in the chest.

*

Ye Ning died, but did not enter the cycle of reincarnation. Instead, she stayed in the underworld and became a judge.

One hundred and thirty years after her death,

ghosts and demons ran rampant in the human world, and the King of Hell assigned her to return and quell the chaos.

He also gave her the identity of a holy maiden of the Sangluo clan.

On the day she went to exterminate the ghosts, Ye Ning saw a man among them.

His sword-shaped brows swept toward his temples, and his eyes were bright as pearls. Even as a half-demon, he retained his noble, aloof bearing.

Who else could it be but Chu Wuyan?

Chu Wuyan recognized Ye Ning at a glance, too.

His eyes were red, as if he had only just stopped crying. "Junior Sister, it's been a long time."

Ye Ning: ...My cultivation was still too weak back then. Otherwise, how did I let him live another hundred and thirty years?

*

On her wedding day,

Ye Ning wore a phoenix crown and a red bridal robe, while two men in ornate red wedding clothes stood before her.

The villain held Ye Ning's life in his hands, and his gleaming sword passed in turn over the hearts of both men.

"One is the groom she was originally promised to, and the other is a lovesick fool here to steal the bride. Holy Maiden, choose one. The man you choose will marry you. I'll kill the one you don't choose."

Ye Ning's expression was cold and calm. She raised her hand and, as Chu Wuyan watched with a shattered expression, pointed to the man beside him.

"I choose him. As for Chu Wuyan, I'll kill him myself."

*

On the day Ye Ning died, Chu Wuyan sat frozen all night, holding her corpse.

The fatal talisman had not taken his life, but it had carved an emptiness into his heart.

In the first half of his life, he spurned the love she had given him so wholeheartedly.

In the second half, he offered his blood to the formation, cut out his own immortal bone, and repented day and night, seeking atonement, all so she might look at him one more time.

Reading Guide

1. The blurb is from the heroine's perspective. The hero had his reasons for rejecting her feelings in the first half of his life. He never meant to kill her, but she will repay him for every hurt he caused her.

2. Both leads are sexually inexperienced. The hero is pure in body and heart. Happy ending.

3. Updates follow the ranking schedule before signing; daily updates afterward.

Another similar story coming soon: She Regretted Breaking Off the Engagement After Being Reborn

Li Funian was the legitimate daughter of the Prince of Anping.

She was the beloved Princess Anyang, cherished by everyone.

She had loved Su Jiuzhao, heir to the Marquis of Qingyuan, since childhood.

When she came of age, she asked the emperor for an edict arranging their marriage and got her wish: she married into the marquis's household.

But married life did not go as she had hoped.

Su Jiuzhao was busy with official duties and often spent the night in his study. She rarely even saw him, let alone received his care or affection.

Li Funian thought he was simply bad at expressing himself, and that deep down he still cared for her.

Then, six months into their marriage, he went south to provide disaster relief and returned with another woman.

Only then did she understand: he was not naturally cold. He simply did not love her.

Later, Su Jiuzhao made that woman his secondary wife.

On the night the red bridal sedan was carried into the marquis's residence, news arrived that the Prince of Anping had been accused of treason and collusion with the enemy.

The Prince of Anping's residence was confiscated. Everyone except Li Funian, who had married out, was imprisoned.

With nowhere else to turn, Li Funian went to Su Jiuzhao for help.

In the freezing cold, she knelt all night in the Junlan Pavilion, but the door to the warm pavilion never opened for her again.

The Prince of Anping's household could not escape execution.

On the day they were put to death, Li Funian calmly gathered her family's remains and buried them.

When she had finished, she took her own life in front of their graves.

That day, snow fell across the land.

The silver frost blanketing the ground turned red with blood.

Su Jiuzhao never appeared again before Li Funian died.

When Li Funian opened her eyes again, she had been reborn in the year she came of age.

The Marquis of Qingyuan's household had just arrived with betrothal gifts.

Watching the glaring red chests being carried into the room, Li Funian immediately ordered her servants to throw them out of the prince's residence and rejected the match.

*

The moment Su Jiuzhao heard that Li Funian had died, regret tore him apart.

Reborn, he rushed to the Prince of Anping's residence with betrothal gifts before the imperial edict could even be issued.

Just when he thought he could make up for his past mistakes this time, he learned that she had changed the intended groom to Xie Linyuan, a young general

a short-lived man who had led an army north and died on the battlefield.

Su Jiuzhao thought he would wait until Xie Linyuan died in battle.

Then he would beg the emperor's favor and marry Li Funian into his household.

But...

In this life, Li Funian avoided him as if he were a venomous snake.

And the news that reached the capital was not Xie Linyuan's death, but his great victory and imminent return to court.

*

On Li Funian's wedding day, the bridal procession stretched for miles, with red wedding gifts and decorations filling the streets from end to end.

Su Jiuzhao stood among the guests, watching her and her new husband step over the brazier, bow to the heavens and earth, and enter the bridal chamber.

In her previous life, she was his wife, yet he trampled on her sincere love.

In this life, he repented every day and did everything he could to make amends, but she never looked back, just as he had never looked back at her.

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