Saving the Beautiful, Strong, and Wretched Demon Ghost

After failing her tribulation, Nian Qu died in a ruined temple, with no one to claim her body.

As she lay dying, she thought back on her brief life. What she regretted most was falling in love with her senior brother, who did not love her.

She had given up half her cultivation to help him overcome his tribulation, but all she got in return was his words: "I don't love you."

She shook her head with a sigh, thinking how foolish she had been, then left this world without a backward glance.

But she never saw that after her death, someone staggered toward her despite the heavenly punishment. As thunderbolts crashed down around him, he shielded her body and stayed by her side until he died.

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Cen Ji was a demon spirit of low status, loved and protected by no one. Yet he fell in love with Nian Qu, the Sect Master's daughter.

Nian Qu only had eyes for his younger brother and never spared him a second glance.

She even used him as a tool to get his brother's attention.

He should have hated her, even resented her.

But when Nian Qu underwent her tribulation, he still foolishly used his broken body to shield her.

Through six hundred years of spring, summer, autumn, and winter, he waited for her to come home.

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After being reborn, Nian Qu had no intention of being kind to anyone again.

But one day, she happened upon that ruined temple and discovered a lingering fragment of memory.

Only then did she learn that she was not the only fool who would give up all their cultivation to help someone else survive a tribulation.

One-on-one romance, both leads are each other's first, happy ending

Theme: Love is the most beautiful thing in the world