Blurb: [Next project: Returning to the Moment Before My Demon-Husband Died for Me / Weibo: @松庭saya]

Zhuoying and her younger sister, both princesses of the human realm, were reborn together, returning to the day they were sent as hostages to the Immortal Realm.

The good news? Her love-struck sister, infatuated with Zhuoying’s senior brother, threw a tantrum to swap places with her, choosing to go to the Barren Sea—the lowest-ranked territory of the Immortal Clan.

The bad news? The Supreme Purity Heavenly Palace, where Zhuoying was headed, was the foremost power in the Immortal Realm. But according to her sister’s past-life account, it was a merciless place with draconian laws, where she had suffered unbearably for ten years as a hostage.

Zhuoying: Could anything be more unbearable than slaving away for that scum of a senior brother, only to be cast aside in the end for overshadowing him?

The two reached an agreement, swapping their fates, each convinced they had secured a brighter future.

Yet upon arriving at the Heavenly Palace, Zhuoying gradually realized things weren’t as she had imagined.

The so-called “merciless and draconian” laws—

Meant curing her chronic illness that made her cough blood at the slightest breeze, granting her entry into the Immortal Realm’s top Academy, providing her with food, shelter, and the finest Celestial Teachers who imparted their knowledge unreservedly. The only condition? No romantic entanglements until she ascended to the rank of an Upper Third Rank Immortal.

Zhuoying: Unbearable? Thanks, but this feels like heaven.

Meanwhile, her sister, who had married into the Barren Sea, waited and waited—but instead of the Barren Sea flourishing as she remembered, her husband turned into a national gigolo, filling their home with a harem of beauties.

She never imagined that one day, her frail older sister would undergo a complete transformation, return to the Barren Sea, and personally… pluck out her husband’s Dragon Tendon.

[Reading Guide]

1. Not a “strong female lead” story, nor pure wish-fulfillment. The heroine’s weak constitution will be cured, but she remains relatively fragile compared to others—though it doesn’t stop her from being formidable.

2. Early-stage “coughs blood in the wind” heroine × tsundere, love-struck Young God of War.

Upcoming Work: Returning to the Moment Before My Demon-Husband Died for Me

Yinshan Liuyu died on a winter night in the ninth year of Illuminating Night.

Her enemy’s sword dripped with her blood, and the childhood sweetheart she had adored was about to marry her half-sister. As she gazed at the Jade Capital of Immortal City from the mist-shrouded mountains, the last thing on her mind before closing her eyes was the Nether Capital of Ghost City—the place she had always despised.

She was the brightest jewel of the Jade Capital, the most esteemed young lady of the Yinshan Clan.

She loved the lantern festivals of the Immortal City, not the Night Parade of One Hundred Ghosts in the Ghost City.

She adored refined and gentle immortals, not the inscrutable and lustful demon.

Thus, when a political marriage bound her to the ruler of the Ghost City, Yinshan Liuyu believed she would never, even in death, miss the 371 years she spent as Mo Lin’s Dao Companion in the Nether Capital.

Yet on the day she died—

Her spirit drifted above the heavens, watching as her cold and indifferent husband, who had never shown her an ounce of unnecessary affection, stormed into the Jade Capital, beheaded her enemies, and spent his cultivation to avenge her—

When Yinshan Liuyu opened her eyes again, she found herself back on the morning after their second day of marriage.

The night before, she had confessed to him that her heart belonged to another and that their union was nothing more than a political alliance.

“…What are you looking at?” her demonic husband said to her with a cold, stern face. “Once a month, separate beds on weekdays, no interference in clan affairs, but you handle the money—I’ve remembered all these conditions. Any other orders, young mistress?”

Yinshan Liuyu twitched the corner of her mouth at his listless expression.

Stop pretending.

As if I don’t know you’ve hidden the hair ribbon I used at thirteen in the third drawer of the left cabinet.

On the day of her death, she saw him standing amidst a river of blood, cradling that hair ribbon, his bloody tears falling like pearls.

Only then did Yinshan Liuyu realize—this man had secretly loved her for many years, back when he was still an unknown beggar boy in the immortal capital.

-Screenshot archived on July 23, 2023

Content tags: Group pet, Foil character, Redemption

Search keywords: Protagonist: Zhuoying | Supporting character: Xie Cexuan | Others:

One-line summary: The black-hearted lotus stops being the scapegoat

Theme: Do good deeds without asking about the future