Snowfall on Peach Blossoms Sword

With the demonic tide about to rise, the Immortal Realm needs a scapegoat. Wrongfully condemned, Wen Ying was nailed to death in an icy realm for three hundred years. Reborn as A Wu, the first thing she does is not seek revenge, but reclaim herself whole. She pulls out the seven soul-locking nails, overturns her case in court, then heads to Yun Mountain in the southern borderlands to work as an outer-sect laborer. She refuses to accept her fate, settling the old score against the whole family, one painful tally at a time. Along the way, she meets A Ruo, a fiery woman who fiercely stands up for her friends, and gradually finds her footing in the mire. Yan Wucuo, the sword leader who personally sent her to her death all those years ago, killed her by mistake in their past life and protects her in this one, always keeping three paces away, guarding her without a word. She must reach him and ask about the two words left unsaid beneath that sword strike; he must repay the life he took in their past life, slowly, over the rest of his own. When her origins are revealed, she learns that she is descended from the Tao family, who gave their lives to suppress the demons three hundred years ago. Beneath the demonic tide lies the wrongful case against the entire Tao family, rewritten and buried. As the truth comes to light and the demonic tide pounds at the gates, she offers herself as fuel for the cause, trading her life for a spring that will not fade from the human world, and for him to finally say those two words beneath his sword.