The young were full of passion, and once set off together to explore the world.
They righted wrongs for the common people and rid the martial world of evil. They made a name for themselves at the martial arts tournament, and saved a prince raised among commoners while surrounded by an army.
They wrote a legend everyone praised, and as they traveled side by side, feelings blossomed between them. But once the legend came to an end, everyone said they shouldn't be together.
Jiao Yuru soon discovered that ever since she and Liu Junzhi had gotten together, they had been constantly hunted, hated, and reviled.
Overnight, they became outcasts, despised by everyone.
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The ending of a bestselling wuxia novel: after enduring countless hardships, the pure-hearted healer and the powerful, cold swordsman finally get together and retreat to a life of seclusion in the mountains. Their companions in adventure, a chivalrous woman from a fallen military family and a resourceful scholar, also quietly clasp hands beneath a dazzling display of fireworks.
Countless readers protested: This is forced pairing! It erases their independent personalities!
The readers' outrage forced the author to transmigrate into her finished novel and change the ending that paired the second male and second female leads.
She tried every underhanded trick to break up the second female lead and the second male lead she had written, but she was in agony every moment. They were all her beloved characters. She understood what they wanted and knew what their hearts desired.
But she wanted to go home.
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In a single day, Jiao Yuru learned that she and Liu Junzhi were merely supporting characters in a story, and that everyone outside the book said they shouldn't be together.
But she had never known what it meant to be forbidden. She only knew that wherever her sword pointed was the way forward. No matter how many hardships lay ahead, she would walk that road with him, without regret.
Theme: Follow the righteous path, and never regret the journey
