The Three Hundredth Year of Widowhood for Him

Bai Xue realized she had transmigrated into a book while still holding a broom.

The man stood before her, frowning as he asked whether she was still dizzy today and whether she could finish sweeping this patch of ground.

Bai Xue: "Sweep your, bleep bleep bleep bleep, "

Unfortunately, before she could get the words out, someone hurried over and called the man away. All he left her with was, "If you're dizzy, don't sweep."

Bai Xue: "..."

That's right. She'd transmigrated, but it had taken her three years to remember she was in a book. The original was a melodramatic xianxia romance called Love of the Demon. The man she'd just met was her immediate superior, the Son of Heaven who would one day dare to compete with the Demon Lord for a woman: the High God Xuan Yao.

A domineering Demon Lord, a gentle High God, and an innocent, beautiful flower fairy. What a love triangle!

According to the story, Xuan Yao and Fairy Qing Lian were originally betrothed. But after an accident sent Qing Lian tumbling into the demon realm, she fell into a torrid and painful romance with the domineering Demon Lord. Later, the fairy returned to the divine realm, where Xuan Yao, the gentle second male lead, got plenty of screen time. But after all that agonizing love, a war that shook the world, and all living beings dying and coming back to life, the fairy fell in love with the Demon Lord...

So, what was Bai Xue?

Oh, a sweeper in Xuan Yao's palace who admired him, caused trouble again and again later on, and acted like a complete idiot... a vicious supporting female character.

...Love of the Demon? More like Love of the Lunatic!

"Whack!"

Bai Xue tossed the broom in her hands. She'd been wondering where she'd ended up. After staying up all night and waking up, she'd thought she'd turned into a jinx. It wasn't until she asked around that she learned she was a little snow demon from the mortal realm, specially selected by the immortal realm to fill out the ranks of the servant girls.

In short: still a jinx.

Bai Xue: "Watch how you talk. I'm a dedicated, hardworking cleaner."

Well, to be honest, Bai Xue had been a little dazed when it all clicked. So a cleaning lady really couldn't expect a happy ending with the big boss...

But surely the time she'd spent with Xuan Yao during those three years of sweeping hadn't been fake?

That year, the little snow demon in the immortal palace wandered beneath a tree, sweeping and fretting. In her spare moments, she stared blankly at the colorful clouds on the horizon. With the red thread tucked against her chest, she thought about how she'd been here for three years. After three years of love, perhaps she should trust Xuan Yao. Maybe the two of them could still break free of the ending written in the book.

Unfortunately, the next day she heard that the High God Xuan Yao and Fairy Qing Lian had become betrothed.

Before she could ask him about it, Xuan Yao went to the demon realm to battle the Demon Lord. She heard it was for Fairy Qing Lian, too.

After that, she never saw him again.

Later, everyone in the immortal realm knew that the snow demon from the mortal realm had fallen for the already-betrothed High God Xuan Yao, and had resorted to any means necessary. She stole the Matchmaker's red thread, harmed immortals, and threw the immortal realm into chaos, until the matter escalated into a marriage pact between Heaven and Earth and a fight to the death.

Beneath the Nine-Flame Mountain in the demon realm, the foolish, vicious demoness turned into a pool of dead water and eventually vanished without a trace.

At the same time, snow fell across the immortal realm, where it was spring all year round. It snowed for three whole months, and the cold was bitter.

Three hundred years later, the demon realm had split into three powers: the Snow Domain, the Invitation to the Moon Palace, and Evil Tiger Mountain.

Xin Yi, Mistress of the Invitation to the Moon Palace, stole the immortal realm's supreme treasure, the Mirror of the Past, intending to threaten the Six Realms. Xuan Yao was ordered to put down the rebellion, but the Mirror of the Past wounded him. At the brink of life and death, snow began to drift gently from the sky.

Snow blanketed the world, and a chill settled softly in the air. The young man knelt on the ground, coughing blood. In a daze, he raised his head and seemed to see a woman, both unfamiliar and familiar, smiling at him...

She was the Snow Maiden, ruler of the Snow Domain in the demon realm.

*

Deep in the Snow Domain stood a nameless, icy tombstone. They said it marked the grave of someone dear to the Snow Maiden, and for three hundred years she had often gone there alone to pay her respects, bringing a jug of wine.

Xuan Yao recuperated in the Snow Domain. Whenever he couldn't find the Snow Maiden, he knew she'd gone to the tomb. After much hesitation, he finally asked her who was buried there.

The Snow Maiden smiled at him calmly.

"My late husband died young. When I count it up carefully, it's been three hundred years already."

I've been his widow for three hundred years. That's enough.

Reading Guide:

1. This story includes a great deal of author-created lore and many elements. Some details in the blurb differ from the main text, but the overall story is the same.

2. The heroine remembers she has transmigrated into a book at the beginning, three years after her transmigration, and the story moves quickly to three hundred years later.

3. This is not a classic "chasing the wife to the crematorium" story.

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Also known as: Snow Before Dawn

Blurb captured on September 25, 2025.

The next book will be Liang Shang Yan, a "chasing the wife to the crematorium" story. Add it to your collection if you're interested!

Theme: People have two portraits, and two sides to their hearts.