[Amnesiac Demoness x Orthodox Leader]
The foremost seat beneath the Heavenly Dao, Xi Yue, was as bright and unblemished as the moon, his sword sweeping across the Nine Provinces.
His lifelong nemesis, Liu Ying, had fought him for a hundred years without either gaining the upper hand.
That is, until Liu Ying was ambushed and her primordial spirit wounded. From then on, she vanished without a trace.
When she appeared again, she had become a fragment of a lingering soul, and all she could remember was that she had lost her sword spirit.
Liu Ying drifted and drifted until she reached the Immortal Sects' Grand Assembly.
On the high platform stood a man of peerless beauty. Her gaze was bewildered, and only her heart raced wildly. He carried her aura.
It felt familiar. She wanted to draw near.
More importantly, when she got close to him, Liu Ying could take on a physical form.
He must be the beloved she had engraved into her very bones.
So, in front of all the cultivators beneath heaven, Liu Ying seized Xi Yue by the collar and kissed him.
"Found you." She bit his lip and smiled. "My sword spirit is with you."
The entire assembly fell silent.
Xi Yue could have shattered her heart meridians with a single palm strike, just as he had wanted to do countless times before.
But all he did was wipe the blood from his lips and catch her wrist.
"Liu Ying, what are you plotting this time?"
*
Only later did Xi Yue learn that Liu Ying had truly forgotten.
She had forgotten their century-old feud and the divide between good and evil. All she remembered was that a fragment of her sword spirit was missing from her primordial spirit.
And that fragment had somehow fused deep within his soul.
Liu Ying kept pestering him to get her things back.
When he read through documents, she would deliberately blow out the candle.
When he meditated and regulated his breathing, she would toy with the strands of hair falling over his shoulder.
When he bathed, she would form a smiling shadow in the rising steam.
He watched her coldly as she acted and deceived him, as she crept in at night and pressed a blade to his heart time and again.
*
Later, Liu Ying regained her memories.
Remembering what she had done, she pointed her long sword at Xi Yue and demanded he confess: "Xi Yue, was all of this your scheme?"
Xi Yue sighed softly.
"It was a scheme."
"I schemed against you for a hundred years, so that from now on, you would be entangled with me alone."
[Reading Guide]
1. One-on-one romance, both leads have no prior romantic partners, happy ending.
2. A mountain of author-created lore.
3. Also titled Painting a Soul.
Theme: A love that lasts a thousand years at first sight, with affections intertwined.
