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It was the fourth year since Jiang Fan broke off their engagement, and the fourth year of his cultivation of the Heartless Way. Xie Si finally saw him again.
Her former intended cultivation partner had changed from a gentle, jade-like sword cultivator into a cold-eyed Dao Lord without desire or emotion.
Xie Si couldn't find a trace of his past self in him. Looking at him was like looking at a stranger.
She had agreed to his mother’s request to break his Heartless Way, but Xie Si had no idea how to make Jiang Fan fall in love with her. She decided to take things as they came and do what she could each day. She never expected that, by sheer luck, she would actually pull it off!
When Jiang Fan staked everything and his cultivation in the Heartless Way dissipated, he asked her, “Xie Si, then... do you still have feelings for me?”
Making a born Dao seed lose all his cultivation and start over would almost be tantamount to destroying him. Looking into Jiang Fan’s burning gaze, Xie Si couldn’t bring herself to lie.
She asked herself honestly: “Not much.” She could no longer throw herself into love with the fervor she’d had in her youth.
Jiang Fan understood. He had known all along that she wanted to destroy his cultivation, but in the end, he had still done as she wished.
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After her engagement was broken off, Xie Si worked all over the place to help her family. In the process, she found a treasure called Heartfire Glaze. It contained a remnant soul: Jiang Fan’s mother, Jiang Zhao, former head of the Jiang clan, the foremost among the hundred great families.
Jiang Zhao had once made waves throughout the cultivation world. After returning as a spirit, she learned from Xie Si that the world had become a cesspool since her death, and cried, “How outrageous!”
Jiang Zhao and Madam Xie had arranged Xie Si’s engagement. Before Jiang Zhao died, Xie Si and Jiang Fan had been inseparable. So why had Jiang Fan changed after her death and started cultivating the Heartless Way? Something was clearly wrong!
Jiang Zhao urged Xie Si, “You have to break his Heartless Way.”
Xie Si: “?”
Jiang Zhao said, “Are you really content to have been jilted?”
Xie Si thought: Not at all.
Jiang Zhao said, “And don’t you want to get back at him?”
Xie Si wondered: Is this really his own mother?
Jiang Zhao, Xie Si’s mentor on the road to immortality, kept up her persuasive efforts. “Xiao Si, you took the Xie family from a minor clan and turned it into a dark horse at the Swordsmanship Tournament. What’s your dream now?”
Xie Si: “...Revenge.”
She had wanted to uncover the truth behind Jiang Zhao’s death and avenge her, fulfilling the promise she had made to Jiang Fan.
Jiang Zhao smiled. “Anything else?”
Xie Si answered firmly, “Ascending to immortality!”
The ultimate goal of the cultivation world: perfect one’s cultivation and rise above all others.
“You’ll succeed,” Jiang Zhao said. “You can follow your aunt’s path.”
Xie Si and Jiang Zhao became the staunchest of allies. With the powerful head of the foremost family in the world paving the way, they journeyed together, uncovering the truth, defeating their enemies, and pursuing immortality.
Reader’s Guide:
1. I really want to try writing a plot-driven story, so the romance may progress slowly at first.
2. Firmly 1v1, happy ending. No angst or dragging things out. The male lead will regain his cultivation in another way, but the female lead is the strongest!
3. I have a huge backlog of chapters, so this definitely won’t be abandoned! (So if you like it, please add it to your favorites, orz.)
Theme: Love yourself and others.
