How to Get Away Unscathed After Winning Over the Cold Immortal Venerable

Ling Shanzao had always loved Yuyan, the Lord of the Divine Palace who had brought her to Chen Yin Palace and raised her.

She considered herself a very mundane person. She liked brightly colored flowers, and she could be won over by a generous sum of money.

It was only natural for someone as materialistic as her to love a beautiful and powerful being.

Ling Shanzao wasn't especially imaginative, but fortunately, she had met Yuyan. He had led her by the hand across vast snowy mountains, praised her in his cool voice for being a good child, granted her immortality, and guided her until she became a genius in the eyes of the world.

And so every vague, beautiful description became concrete and real, all of them taking the form of a tall, composed figure.

She often thought of him in his snow-white robes, walking slowly through a covered corridor echoing with the sound of bells.

Back then, sunlight fell on his robes, glowing a pale golden color.

She had watched that figure from afar for more than six hundred years.

She thought she would live that way forever, until she was ambushed by a demon while protecting the young palace lord. Her qin was destroyed, she died, and she fell into the Wudu River.

The demon was powerful, but fortunately Yuyan arrived in time, and the young palace lord was unharmed.

As Ling Shanzao sank beneath the water, she thought that at least she'd fulfilled her duty. Her life had repaid its debts and ended in perfect balance.

But through the water, she saw that he didn't even glance her way, and suddenly she felt terribly unwilling to accept it.

She had never made Yuyan look at her differently, never made him care about her as a person, not even a little.

She had never even tried to let Yuyan know she loved him, because she knew she was doomed to fail.

But as she faced death, her heart filled with an indescribable sorrow and anger. Even if he stood high above her, she was not insignificant.

Neither her heart nor her feelings were insignificant.

So after she was reborn, Ling Shanzao listened to the thing calling itself the System chatter endlessly in her ear, while thinking only that this life she had to win Yuyan over, and make sure he could never treat her as if she didn't exist again.

Once she had made up for all the resentment she'd carried from her previous life and tasted what it was like to have him, she would cast him aside without mercy and let him know what it felt like to be abandoned by the person he loved.

Later, she succeeded. Once she'd achieved her goal, it was time to leave.

But only then did she realize that someone like Yuyan, who was so heartless when he didn't love her, would be just as obsessive once he truly did.

He had no intention of letting her go. Ling Shanzao had no way to escape safely.

Even with the System's help, she faked her death, changed identities countless times, fled to the farthest northern reaches of the entire Divine Realm, and even temporarily sealed her consciousness and turned into an unaware tree. Yuyan would always find her and take her back, gently and terrifyingly telling her to be a good child and never leave him again.

A cold, rational, and captivatingly beautiful hero

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A heroine full of schemes who loves and hates fiercely

Reading Guide:

Both leads are virgins

Happy ending

Theme: Stay positive and keep moving forward.