He is the youngest of the Shadow Pavilion’s Eight Elders. He was ordered away for seven days. When he returned, the entire sect had been wiped out. His master, holding on with his broken body just long enough to pass on his power, left him one final message: Ye Lin, sect master of Taixu, was the true culprit behind the massacre of the Shangguan family.
She is the Shangguan family’s sole survivor. Ye Lin brought her to the sect when she was six, and everyone said she was fortunate to have been taken in. Only she knew who had left the old wound in her dantian, a wound that would never heal. For twelve years, she quietly gathered clues, never daring to speak up.
His two attempts to assassinate Ye Lin both failed. During the second, he took her hostage to escape. She struggled until he told her, “Ye Lin killed your parents.” Her twelve years of restraint shattered in that moment, and she chose to go with him.
One bears a blood feud, the other possesses a heavenly-grade spiritual core but is held back by an old injury. Hunted at every turn, they protect each other through life and death. He uses talismans to suppress the cracks in her dantian; she uses her remaining spiritual power to hold back the deadly poison in his heart. They know that growing closer is like drinking poison to quench their thirst, but still they fall in love.
On their wedding night, snow-covered white flowers fill the valley as witnesses.
In the decisive battle at the winter solstice, his spiritual core shatters. She uses a forbidden art, sacrificing her soul to draw his broken spirit into her body. From then on, she disappears. Using her hand, he draws the final talisman, kills all their enemies, and delivers justice for both families.
The borrowed body can last only three years. With the end of those three years approaching, he returns to the valley where the white flowers bloom and draws the final soul-returning talisman.
As snow falls, their two souls finally stand side by side.
