The moment he saw these words, Hua Xiangwan swallowed a mouthful of wine in his throat and started coughing rapidly.

She quickly took a handkerchief to cover her mouth and coughed for a long time before she recovered her breath.

She couldn't help but read the seven words again before finally confirming that she was not mistaken. It was indeed - Lord Qingheng, Xie Changji.

The title of Lord Qingheng is well-known to everyone in Yunlai and the Western Territory.

The fifteenth generation master of the Heavenly Sword Sect's Heart-Searching Sword, the youngest cultivator in Yunlai who had transcended the tribulation, the strongest man in Yunlai, and a fierce man who was said to be able to destroy the sect with a single sword and no one in Yunlai could match him.

According to legend, the boundary between life and death was broken, and after the Heavenly Sword Sect desperately repaired the seal, its vitality was greatly damaged. Some sects wanted to take advantage of the situation and forcibly attack the Heavenly Sword Sect. When the survival of the Heavenly Sword Sect was in danger, a sword suddenly fell from the boundary between life and death.

Just relying on this sword intent, he was able to kill all the disciples who entered the Tianjian Sect.

From then on, Yunlai respectfully called its sword master "Shangjun", who became the number one cultivator that no one dared to challenge. The Tianjian Sect also secured its position as the largest sect in Yunlai, and developed rapidly within two hundred years, reaching its peak.

But for Hua Xiangwan, this almost mythical character has another identity.

This identity can be simply summed up in two words - ex-husband.

That is the old lover that she and the elders mentioned as "absolutely unacceptable".

The story between her and Xie Changji started two hundred years ago.

Two hundred years ago, the Tianji Sect in the Western Territory predicted the birth of a ghost.

Ghost spirits are a kind of evil demon specially cultivated by other worlds.

Ever since the 12th generation Sword Master Xie Gutang strengthened the seal of the realm of life and death, the alien world has been trying to break the seal.

Later, they created the evil demon "魊灵" to lure the monks from the cultivation world to help them open the barrier of the realm of life and death.

Ghosts are similar to inner demons, parasitic on the human body, giving the host powerful powers, but will also devour the host unknowingly.

The raising of a 魊 spirit requires the nourishment of countless "魊". "魊" is similar to a ghost and has no entity. As long as the resentment is strong enough, it can be summoned.

Like the 魊, it parasitizes the human body, giving people stronger power and helping the host achieve its goals. However, the host will also lose his mind under the influence of the 魊, kill innocent people, and eventually be exterminated by the immortal sect.

The existence of "魊" has caused frequent deaths of innocent people in Yunlai and the western border, but grudges are hard to eliminate in this world, and the worshippers of "魊" have been banned repeatedly. With "魊" rampant in the world of cultivation, the spirit of "魊" has become more and more powerful day by day.

Eventually, the ghost spirits fully matured and needed to find a host, so after the prediction of the Tianji Sect, they came out from the Western Territory.

Some people want to obtain the ghost spirit, and of course there are people - such as the Hehuan Palace, which is considered a famous sect in the Western Territory, and does not want such a thing that brings trouble to the world to appear in the world of cultivation.

So Hua Xiangwan, who was only eighteen years old but had already become a Divine Transformation cultivator, used a fake identity, fake appearance, and the alias "Wanwan", and brought the Soul-Locking Lamp, the treasure of Hehuan Palace, to Yunlai, with the purpose of assisting the Tianjian Sect in sealing the ghost spirit.

At that time, she was still young and had never been in a relationship. Her master even joked with her and asked her to find a Taoist partner in Yunlai. It would be best if he was from the Heavenly Sword Sect, as long as he was not a master of the Sword of the Heart.

Because, although the Heaven Sword Sect is a lineage of the Heart-Searching Sword, and they are extremely powerful, their principle is to get as close to the Way of Heaven as possible, and they have no small love or personal feelings. It is impossible to have a relationship with such a person.

She responded casually, not caring at all.

Then she came to Yunlai and fell in love with Xie Changji at first sight.

At that time, Xie Changji looked like an ordinary disciple of the Tianjian Sect. His cultivation was not even at the Yuanying level, but he was ordered by his master to go down the mountain to eliminate the "魊".

The two met while investigating the same case in Fengxia Town. This Taoist was a disciple of the Tianjian Sect and was extremely handsome, her favorite type. So she wanted to tease him and use him to enter the realm of life and death and take action when the ghost spirit was born.

So she pestered him in the name of "liking" him, chasing him all the way, helping him, and accompanying him.

This little Taoist priest appears cold on the outside, but actually has a very soft heart.

On the one hand, he rejected her, but every time they were in real danger, she would whimper and pretend to be defeated, and he would come back to save them.

In order to stay by his side, she pretended to be blind, lame, and even to have amnesia.

Sometimes he saw it, sometimes he didn't, but he would rather believe it and never really let her fend for herself.

When she pretended to be blind, he let her hold the hilt of his cold white jade sword and led her in front;

When she pretended to be lame, he made a rattan chair and carried her on his back.

Even if she pretended to have amnesia, he would still take good care of her, tell her her name, who she was before, and wait for her to remember.

As she pretended, she even forgot her original intention. She felt as if she really liked him, and that this Taoist who never left her also liked her.

Once, she accompanied him to catch "魯" and injured her foot. She sat on a stone pier by the river, looking at the boy who was half-kneeling in front of her and bandaging her wound. Suddenly, she spoke sincerely: "Xie Changji, you should come with me in the future."

Xie Changji raised his head and frowned slightly: "Where are you going?"

Hua Xiangwan smiled and turned to look towards the west: "Let's go to my hometown. When I'm done with this, will you come back with me?"

Xie Changji shook his head, tied a bandage for her, and said calmly: "We met by chance, and we must part ways eventually. Girl, do what you need to do and leave."

"Ah?" Hua Xiangwan was bewildered, "Don't you like me?"

Xie Changji shook his head: "I don't like people."

"You're lying," Hua Xiangwan smiled, "You must like me."

But later she found out that Xie Changji really didn't like her.

There was nothing special about her; he was the same with everyone.

As a disciple from the Tianjian Sect, he helps the weak and upholds the great principles. He will save her and many other people, such as Fairy Yaoguang and Fairy Luluo.

He bandaged her wounds, and he would also bandage theirs. In his eyes, men, women, young and old, they were all the same, with no difference.

But she always didn't believe it and had to look for her special shadow among the clues.

For example, when her childhood sweetheart Shen Yichen came to visit her, she deliberately picked up some food for Shen Yichen, and she would secretly look at Xie Changji's expression.

The boy remained calm throughout, but when he took the initiative to say goodbye to her the next day and said coldly, "Since Miss Wanwan has found a companion, I will take my leave," she would think that he was jealous and that he liked her.

For example, when they were ambushed together, although she was more powerful than him, he was always able to stop her, so he was always the most seriously injured, while she was not seriously injured.

For example, when he told her about his childhood, by the river, he softly said that he was born in winter, his entire family was slaughtered by evil spirits, and he was buried in the snow. He was lucky enough to survive and was saved by the Tianjian Sect. He had never seen his parents.

Wanting to please him, she taught him the Hehuan Palace secret technique "Dream Butterfly" and told him that if there was an old friend he wanted to see, he could use the Dream Butterfly to see him in a dream.

The young man stretched out his hand in a daze, and the moment he touched the Dream Butterfly, he widened his eyes and looked at Hua Xiangwan in surprise.

The two of them were separated by a blue phantom butterfly, with their fingertips touching. At that moment, Hua Xiangwan saw through the illusion that the person this person wanted to see the most at this moment was actually the young Hua Xiangwan.

She smiled, and at that moment she also felt that he liked her.

At that time everyone advised her that Xie Changji didn't like her.

But she just found so many reasons.

Every time she was rejected by Xie Changji, every time she was dumped by Xie Changji, every time she felt that Xie Changji didn't like her that much, she could always find some clues and feel that he liked her.

Hope is rekindled time and time again, and despair is felt again and again.

Over and over again, she kept hearing him say he was sorry.

Shen Yichen kept asking her to leave and stop getting entangled with Xie Changji, but to no avail.

But she stubbornly believed that even if there was no result, it would still be her result.

Later, she married Xie Changji, and Shen Yichen was implicated in her marriage to Xie Changji and was killed by Yao Guang.

She broke into Mingjian Villa alone and killed Yaoguang with her own hands. Before Yaoguang died, he was covered in blood and crawled in a pool of blood. He looked at her with resentment: "He will never like you, and he will never like you. He is the heir of the Sword of Honesty. He will never like anyone in his life."

"He married you just to repay his kindness. Your love has tainted his ways. Even if I die, I will let you know that you are not worthy!"

"You don't deserve to like him. Your liking for him is a sin and a crime. And he will never be moved by someone like you in his entire life."

She was speechless, and at that moment, she knew.

It turns out that he is the successor of the Sword of Conscience. According to legend, the Sword of Conscience has the Way of Heaven in mind and no personal love.

But she still had a tiny bit of hope. She thought that she had not misunderstood him, and she did not ask him to like her the same way.

She just wanted to ask, with all the love she had invested in him, had he ever been moved for a moment?

Even for a moment, she felt that this was a result.

So she went to the Heavenly Sword Sect with wounds all over her body, but happened to see the boundary of life and death being broken.

The Ghost Spirit was born and the Tianjian Sect was destroyed. She was in the realm of life and death and heard Xie Changji say "I'm sorry" for the last time.

It was windy and snowy at the time, and she finally admitted at that moment that Xie Changji really didn't like her.

How could the heir of the Sword of Conscience possibly like someone?

Is it a sin to dislike someone?

no.

It had come to this because of her obsession and delusion. He had made it clear from beginning to end that it was her obsession that had led to this.

She couldn't blame anyone, not even Xie Changji.

I just don't like it, what's there to be resentful about?

After realizing this, she suddenly felt that her three years in Yunlai were a bit ridiculous.

Absurdity harms others as well as yourself.

Yao Guang was right, her love was a sin and a crime, and it shouldn't have existed in the first place.

At that moment, she experienced for the first time in her life what it meant to be heartbroken.

She didn't want to have anything to do with this man anymore.

Why should you stay with someone who doesn't like you but insists on staying with you just to repay your kindness?

Xie Changji is a man of his word, and once they get married, they will take full responsibility. She knows his temper, so when she was sealing the ghost spirit, she jumped into the other world, snatched the sword of inquiry that had fallen into the other world and threw it to Xie Changji, then sacrificed her clone to the Soul-Locking Lamp, and sealed the ghost spirit together with Xie Yunting, and pretended to die in front of Xie Changji.

She felt guilty for bothering Xie Daojun for so long, and now that she had finally helped him, they were even.

As for that identity——

The one who loves and thanks Changji is Wanwan.

Then let Wanwan be buried forever and ever in the realm of life and death.

All her life, she never wanted to let anyone else know that Hua Xiangwan, the young master of Hehuan Palace, had ever liked someone in such a humble and hypocritical way.