Blurb:
Long after the Ghost Emperor Yu Qing died and his soul dispersed, Ye Ce, the fifth prince of the Heavenly Palace who had once sworn never to enter the mortal world, came to the banks of the Lake of Love.
The waters of the lake could reveal one's feelings. Ye Ce gathered some in a cup and drank it in one gulp.
As the water entered his stomach, a fierce pain exploded in his chest, and he spat blood all over the ground.
The greater the pain, the deeper the love.
It meant he loved Yu Qing to the very depths of his soul.
But he felt no love in his heart. He remembered Yu Qing, the little immortal, but not the feelings between them.
"Even the waters of the Lake of Love can't make me remember what it feels like to love you." Ye Ce was in great pain, but his voice was calm. He leaped into the lake. "Only the lake can tell me that I once loved someone."
"Yu Qing, I don't even deserve to remember you. Why did you make me forget you?"
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Yu Qing was an immortal who had grown up in the Flower Valley of the Ghost Realm. She could have lived a carefree life, but when the Ghost Emperor departed, he passed the throne to her. She was an immortal, not suited to being Ghost Emperor at all, but she gritted her teeth and took the position.
She faced opposition from all the ghosts in the Ghost Realm and survived several assassination attempts.
One day, she was gravely wounded and on the verge of death when a cold, aloof young man descended from the sky and saved her.
Then he brazenly declared, "I'm your savior. You should repay me. From today on, everything you have belongs to me."
Yu Qing: "..."
Wasn't she supposed to be the one offering to repay him? Why was he so eager to demand repayment?
And he was so arrogant, so irritating.
Little did she know that the moment she met Ye Ce, a doomed romance had quietly begun.
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All the ghosts agreed that Yu Qing had died for the Ghost Realm, for the greater good. No one would say she had died for love, because they still remembered her public declaration to the Ghost Realm:
"Stop trying to find someone for me. I, Yu Qing, will never fall in love with anyone in my life."
After that, Yu Qing was cold toward all men, so everyone believed she knew nothing about love.
That is, until Ye Ce said, "I was the one who caused her death."
He shouldn't have kept appearing in front of her every day, even though he'd never said a single word of love to her.
But nothing could be undone. He found a fragment of Yu Qing's consciousness. "If you can hold on, you can ascend to godhood and be reborn. Then we can roam the world together. What do you say?"
But over hundreds of millions of years, fewer than a hundred had become gods.
Theme: Grow through adversity. My fate is in my own hands!
