Once, I Shone Like a Swan Over the Sparse Shadows

Across the vast expanse of heaven and earth, the Heavenly Realm and the Demon Realm have been at odds for ages. War rages, leaving countless lives in ruin. Ten thousand years ago, a cataclysmic battle broke out. Amid the chaos, Qingli Dijun, the Heavenly Realm's God of War, met a princess of the demon race. The threads of fate quietly entwined them, and they fell in love and had a daughter, Shuying. But neither realm would accept this forbidden love. To keep their daughter safe, Qingli Dijun and the demon princess made the painful decision to send Shuying to the mortal world to be reborn. From then on, they remained in the shadows, watching over her in silence. Reborn as Zhu Piaoyan, Shuying grew up as an ordinary girl among mortals. By chance, she met the dashing General Bai Yu, and the two were drawn to each other as affection blossomed between them. At that time, the frontier was under heavy attack, and General Bai Yu was ordered to war. Determined to protect the man she loved, Zhu Piaoyan resolutely set out for the battlefield. But the battlefield was treacherous, and she was framed by villains and died with a grievance in her heart. Her fragrant soul drifted into the underworld, where, with her intelligence and courage, Zhu Piaoyan carved out a place for herself. She made many close friends among the ghosts and monsters, and gradually learned to wield some of the underworld's mysterious powers.