Yu Yao was famous in the cultivation world as a pretty face with no substance. Her father was hailed as the greatest sword cultivator under heaven, while her mother was renowned as the greatest healer for her extraordinary medical skills.
And she, too, had a title to call her own: the cultivation world's number-one pretty face.
Yu Yao's talent was mediocre, even downright terrible. She was worse than disciples who had only just entered the outer sect.
She had worked diligently at cultivation for years, yet her level remained stuck at the Qi Refining stage. No matter how hard she trained, she made no progress.
In a trial realm, Yu Yao became separated from her teammates and accidentally contracted a love gu. To break it, she needed to quickly find someone she could cultivate dual cultivation with.
Just then, a young man happened to come by. He was extraordinarily beautiful, with striking features, red lips and white teeth, and a slender build, like an immortal descended to earth.
Every move he made tugged at Yu Yao's heartstrings.
The young man kindly offered to help her, but Yu Yao had other ideas. While he wasn't paying attention, she transferred the love gu to him with her lips, and the two spent a wild stretch of time together.
When she woke, Yu Yao felt her cultivation, which had been stuck for years, finally begin to budge. She looked at the clothes beside her, which belonged to the Hehuan Sect.
She understood at once.
An idea began to form...
She tentatively asked, "Can we keep doing this from now on?"
Yan Yuci's ears flushed red. Embarrassed and annoyed, he said, "After doing something like that to me, don't you think you should take responsibility?"
After that, the two spent their days entangled together, inseparable. Yu Yao's cultivation improved steadily, and her wedding day with her fiance drew ever nearer.
She used Yan Yuci without the slightest guilt. Once she had achieved her goal, she naturally wanted to cast him aside. On the eve of her wedding, she asked Yan Yuci to end things.
Though Yan Yuci cried in utter heartbreak, he eventually agreed to separate after she coaxed him.
On her wedding day, during the wedding-night rituals,
Yu Yao sat on the bed, quietly waiting for her fiance to arrive.
A pair of unnaturally pale hands lifted her veil. Yu Yao looked up and met a familiar face. Her pupils suddenly contracted, and she nervously backed away.
The man who arrived wasn't her fiance. It was Yan Yuci.
Yan Yuci's eyes were nearly feverish with madness. His cold lips brushed her ear as he smiled innocently. The whisper of her former lover was like a blade come to claim her life. "If you ever leave me again, I'll kill you."
He had waited a long time for this day.
He had known from the start that Yu Yao had never intended to take responsibility.
But it didn't matter. Now she could never abandon him again.
Theme: Start by resisting temptation yourself
