The goddess Meng Yao accepted a disciple.
The apprentice is the reincarnated Demon Lord - the lover she killed with her own hands in her previous life. He came back with all his memories and became her disciple, just for revenge.
Meng Yao accepted him as her disciple because she exchanged her qualification for eternal reincarnation for this chance of rebirth for him. She would never let him know about this.
He started poisoning her tea. She is immune to all poisons, but it hurts every time. She never broke it, she just picked up the tea cup and drank it one sip after another. He didn't know that those poisons were consuming the rest of her life in exchange for reincarnation, dose by dose. There were black lines spreading on her wrists - they were traces of the broken reincarnation seal. When the black pattern reaches her heart, she will no longer be reincarnated and will perish forever. He occasionally saw it and asked her what it was. She said: "The tea spilled, it's okay."
The swordsmanship she taught him contained moves from his previous life. She kept his broken jade pendant, holding it and silently chanting his name late at night when no one was around. She blocked his knife, healed his injuries, huddled in the rainstorm and endured the pain, but when he turned around, she straightened her expression and said "it's nothing."
He finally discovered that she was dying. He questioned and she remained silent.
Before she died, the last words she said to him were: "I will come back."
He didn't know that she could no longer enter reincarnation. He believed it. He has been waiting in Cangwu Mountain for many years. She never returned. But he still didn't know.
