Liu Jingyu happened to pass by and heard the disciple guarding the gate say that she was a woman from the Zou family in the neighboring prefecture, here to seek medicine for her husband, who suffered from a strange illness.
As he watched, their eyes met for an instant when she raised her face. Her features were striking and bold, with the bone above her brows protruding slightly, especially when she frowned, like a pair of horns.
At the time, he looked down at her with an indifferent expression and said, "Give it to her."
He never expected that he would later fall deeply in love with her, to the point that whenever his fellow disciples mentioned "the Zou couple," he was consumed with jealousy.
Half a year later, the young master of the Zou family was found dead. The Zou residence suddenly became a haunted house.
The Taijin Sect dispatched a group of disciples. Everyone shuddered when they went inside.
The servants in the residence were all dead corpse puppets, and clusters of sinister flowers bloomed amid the weeds and stagnant ponds.
Several corpses were buried in the earth.
Even the old master and his wife were buried there, though they were said to have been torn apart by wild beasts and left to rot in the grass, without a trace of their bones.
Sinister incantations had been carved under the bed in the young master's bedroom, where his body lay.
The culprit had made no attempt to cover her tracks. It was the woman who had come to seek medicine half a year earlier.
A fellow disciple exclaimed in shock, "Half a year ago, Madam Zou came to us for medicine. We thought she was devoted to her husband, but she actually refined him into a corpse puppet. Senior Brother! We were used!"
The disciple turned around.
Liu Jingyu stood there, dazed, then suddenly gave a soft laugh.
The disciple: ...?
Jadefire Smile was the title awarded to Xie Minglong, the foremost disciple of the Springblood Palace, after she won the northern border competition. Back then, she had been full of ambition and confidence. She never imagined that a year later, her entire sect would betray her.
Afterward, she swore to wipe out the Springblood Palace.
Before that, she had a few medicinal ingredients to find.
Reading Guide:
1. The story is told mainly from the heroine's perspective.
2. The main characters all have moral flaws.
3. The heroine has had past lovers, while the hero has not.
Theme: Handle relationships properly, and look at problems from the perspective of how conflicts develop.
