Jiang Ciying joined the Xuan Zhen Sect because of her marriage arrangement. Two years passed, and she remained utterly unremarkable, unnoticed by everyone. Even her fiance barely gave her the time of day. The letters and gifts she sent him disappeared without a trace. But Jiang Ciying was quite fond of him, because she had been dreaming about him constantly for the past two years.
Then one day, she found a reply from her fiance on her windowsill. He called her “darling” and sent her a little flower in return.
Jiang Ciying was delighted. After that, her fiance wrote to her and sent her gifts every day. But his words grew increasingly explicit, his feelings increasingly uncontrollable, until he even started demanding to know whom she had seen and what she had done each day.
At the same time, her personal belongings and intimate clothing began to disappear one after another.
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Xue Daoling cultivated the Heartless Dao and was naturally aloof. After a trip down the mountain to exterminate demons, he felt that something had changed in his body, but he couldn't figure out what.
It wasn't until his fiancee, Jiang Ciying, came to see him that he discovered there was another person inside his body. During the day, he was the normal Xue Daoling. At night, that person took over his body and kept harassing Jiang Ciying.
Xue Daoling found a chance to speak with him and learned that he was another version of himself from a different timeline. Their experiences were identical, except that his name was Xue Daoling, and in the world he came from, Jiang Ciying did not exist.
With no other choice, Xue Daoling asked Jiang Ciying to try getting along with the nighttime Xue Daoling. And when she did, Jiang Ciying fell in love with him.
By then, Xue Daoling had also realized he was in love with her. His resentment gradually twisted into something ugly. Finally, when a rare opportunity presented itself, he destroyed Xue Daoling's soul and took Jiang Ciying back for himself.
He pretended to be Xue Daoling and acted as if everything were normal, convinced that his disguise was flawless. That very night, Jiang Ciying pressed a sword to his neck.
“Where is Xue Daoling?”
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Xue Daoling transmigrated into his own body in a parallel world, where he found the precious wife who had saved him for two years. She didn't recognize him, but she was already his fiancee, Jiang Ciying.
And since his parallel-world self treated her poorly, Xue Daoling happily decided to steal her away from himself.
*Across every timeline, she is the one and only variable.
A gentle, resilient beauty x a damp, brooding ghost's wisp of a soul
The male lead is Xue Daoling.
25/2/24: May be revised before the story begins.
Theme: The mountain does not turn away dust, and the river does not refuse a full flow.
