My junior apprentice sister and I had been secretly in love for twenty years. One day, I happened to see her take out her personal jade pendant and the document we had submitted to Heaven and Earth when we pledged to become partners. Overjoyed, I followed her to the ceremony, only to see Shen Qingqing throw herself into the arms of a man who looked almost exactly like me, weeping and declaring that she would marry no one but him in this life. I silently wiped the blood from the corner of my mouth and suppressed the surging energy in my body. Then I sent a message to my parents using my communication jade tablet. “Father, I agree to marry the daughter of the Qingyu Sect Master.” As it happened, the day Shen Qingqing formally pledged herself to another was also the day my wedding ceremony would resound through the Nine Heavens and shake the Nine Abysses. When news of my wedding spread throughout the cultivation world, Shen Qingqing’s face turned ashen.
