When Qu Duiyan was born, his father Qu Jiang was ranked as one of the six sub-saints in the world. His mother Yang Liu was the leader of Lianjian, a powerful person at the peak of Mahayana. Lianjian Sect was very famous, and more than a hundred clans and families in half of the East Continent competed to attach themselves to it.
There are many spiritual practices in Lianjian. Since she was 18, Qu Duiyan has often been carried around by her mother, watching people make hand gestures and cast spells. Sometimes, when she sees magical scenes like waterfalls condensing and hanging springs turning into ice, she would clap her hands and laugh for a long time.
When she grew into a beautiful girl, she revealed her amazing talent and beautiful appearance.
There are often groundless rumors in the market, talking about how comfortable and beautiful her life is, saying that she is "reading Taoist books leisurely and not getting up, combing her hair slowly under the crystal curtain."
She also said that her senior brother who practiced the art of rejuvenating dead trees made all the flowers in the mountains bloom overnight in the deep winter on her thirteenth birthday, just to make her happy.
Compared to the Crown Prince of Beilu, who was raised in the deep palace and whose name is rarely known, she is more like an uncrowned princess who is the focus of everyone's attention.
It seemed as if fate had piled up all the best things in the world in front of her, allowing her to choose the one that would bring her the end of the world.
This led to Qu Duiyan later beginning to doubt whether the happiness and perfection of the previous eighteen years was just a false dream.
After waking up from the dream, the sky was dark and the earth was gloomy.
Her parents died at the hands of traitors, who were her senior brothers and fellow disciples.
Killing a sub-sage and a Mahayana peak at the same time is difficult, but not impossible. If it is done by the closest and most trusted person, who has painstakingly planned for many years, even a sage will find it difficult to guard against people's hearts.
The poison of the Mo Dao Qiong Palace and the magic weapon of the Bao Pu Sect require one to spend a lot of money to pretend that the person is possessed and in urgent need of someone to guide his spiritual energy.
Chu Huan did all these.
Qu Duiyan later understood a truth: some people regard power and reputation as above all else, and as long as the stakes of betrayal outweigh the gratitude, there is nothing they cannot do.
However, she was almost in despair at that time. She finally realized how naive she was before. She didn't care about the sect's affairs and practiced on her own. As a result, when Chen Yi was away, Lianjian almost fell into the hands of thieves.
But Chen Yi came back.
From the foot of Cangya Mountain to Lianjian, thousands of miles of pursuit and ambush failed to kill him. In the end, he walked into the hall covered in blood, holding a knife. He said, "I believe it."
A word weighs more than a thousand pounds.
In late autumn of that year, blood dyed the spring water of Lianjian red, making the flying red leaves invisible. Their magic formulas and swords all fell into the hands of their former fellow disciples.
Later, Chu Huan escaped from Lianjian Mountain and headed for Baopu Sect. Then the East Land Demon Army crossed the sea, and the prelude to the war began.
The few remaining elders all came to persuade Qu Duiyan to abandon the mountain. The whole sect was in a panic.
The night before summoning all the disciples and announcing whether to stay or leave, Qu Duiyan stood in the ancestral hall and looked at the tablets. After a long while, he said, "I will not leave. Even if there is no one to bury my bones, I will die here in battle."
Chen Yi didn't say a word until he sent her to the gate. The bright moonlight fell into his eyes, peaceful as before.
Faced with a major change, she managed to quell the rebellion with all her might. Overnight, she mastered many extraordinary methods without any instruction, revealing the invulnerable strength in her blood.
But at this moment I was still panicking.
He even gave up on himself and speculated about him sinisterly, "Junior brother, do you want Lianjian Sect?"
As long as you don't turn to the evil path, I will give you Lianjian.
Chen Yi just shook his head and said, "You should have a good rest. I'll take care of everything."
no sooner said than done.
In that great battle, Chu Huan led the demon army to break through the first line of defense set up by Lian Jian in the north of Donglu, while Chen Yi, holding a knife, cut a bloody path among thousands of troops and killed the traitor with his own hands.
Later they went through many things together until the war ended.
After the general situation stabilized, he began to worry about his own affairs. Qu Duiyan sometimes felt that Chen Yi also liked him, and sometimes thought that he treated him so well just out of morality.
He Yanyun and Ruan Xiaolian both advised her not to be impulsive in their letters. But she didn't want to continue in such an unclear state, so she simply wanted to get to the bottom of it. Even if it was self-indulgent, a quick and decisive blow was better than tossing and turning in bed.
Late in the evening, he ate a bowl of glutinous rice and chicken to give himself courage and, filled with excitement, he ran to knock on Chen Yi's gate.
All the prepared remarks are useless, the first thing I say is,
"Do you have someone you like? What do you think of me?"
Chen Yi stood there in a daze, looking straight into her eyes
A charming and adorable daughter-in-law.
Qu Duiyan was anxious, "Say something!"
The man in front of me said slowly, "When I entered the sect, I thought that although I was your junior brother, I was older than you and I would definitely protect you for your whole life... But later, I couldn't bear to see you get hurt and suffer, and I was always thinking about you. I had already surpassed the status of a junior brother. If you think this is an offense, I will not bother you anymore in the future. If you say that you are also attracted to me, I dare not think about it."
Qu Duiyan was a little confused and didn't react.
"What's the point of saying all this! If you have the guts, marry me! I just want to ask you one question, do you dare to marry me?!"
"I will marry you." Chen Yi said word by word, "I am willing to marry Qu Duiyan, and we will pursue the great path together. You will be my only life, and I will love and cherish you, and never leave you. If you break my promise, your merits and body will be wasted, and your soul will fly away."
Qu Duiyan looked down in panic and saw bright red blood falling to the ground and disappearing in an instant.
This is a heart-felt oath.
Tears finally fell, "You are stupid, who would want to swear such a terrible oath together..."
Chen Yi wiped her tears with a smile.
When he was studying in the academy, he had read a lot of spring breeze poems, but when he listened to the song, he couldn't say a word. No matter how touching the romantic poems were, they seemed frivolous.
I can’t explain it clearly, I can only swear.
The day of the union was finally set. Under the calm surface, undercurrents were surging. Rumors were everywhere that the Lianjian sect had suffered from internal strife and division, and the battle between the Taoists and the demons, which inevitably damaged its vitality. How could it be ranked first among the sects in the Central Continent?
As the wedding date approaches, Qu Duiyan feels like he is facing a formidable enemy.
Chen Yi only said, "I'll take care of everything."
Still only this one sentence. Still keep his word.
Outside the curtains, the spring rain is trickling, and the breeze in the restaurant is intoxicating. This restaurant has the best plum wine, especially suitable for girls.
Qu Duiyan was so drunk that he slammed the table and said, "The person I fell in love with at first sight when I was eight years old later became my husband! This is such a big legend that even the storybooks don't dare to write it like this now."
He Yanyun was eating roast goose and said vaguely, "Back then, Chen Yiming obviously liked you. Everyone knows his thoughts. Only you are so nervous..."
Qu Duiyan was not convinced at all.
"What do you mean I'm the only one who's nervous? He has a pure Taoism, a high level of cultivation, is handsome, and has an extraordinary demeanor! What's more! He has a gentle and patient personality! He will never reject anyone!" Qu Duiyan slammed the table, "How can this be tolerated?! So many young girls are rushing to him!"
"Wait, I admit that his Taoism is pure and his cultivation is superb, but are you sure you are talking about him as for the last two words?"
Qu Duiyan replied without hesitation, "You think he is not handsome? What's your opinion?"
He Yanyun remained silent.
Ruan Xiaolian knew that she was a little drunk, and she was also tired and thoughtless. "Yes, yes, he is handsome and you are beautiful. You are a perfect match, okay?"
God knows why the leader of Lianjian Sect, a great cultivator, would make a fuss about his appearance. What kind of thing is that?
When Qu Duiyan heard this, he showed no joy.
“No matter how beautiful a face is, if you look at it every day for ten or a hundred years, you will get tired of it eventually.”
Even Ruan Xiaolian was speechless.
Starry sea. Didn't you claim to be so beautiful when you were only eight years old? Where did your narcissistic energy go?
He Yanyun nodded at her, "Stop drinking and go home with your Taoist partner."
Qu Duiyan turned around and saw Chen Yi standing at the stairs.
Seeing her looking at him, he touched his nose as if a little embarrassed, "I see you haven't come back yet. Well, it's getting late."
He Yanyun felt that she really admired these two people. They played mahjong and played with a couple. One fed the other. After so many years, Chen Yi became a sub-sage, but he still followed him around and wanted to follow him every day.
She watched the two of them walk away together. She lowered her head and saw the meat that Ruan Xiaolian had picked up for her. She suddenly felt no dissatisfaction at all. Her life was much more fulfilling than Qu Duiyan's.
Qu Duiyan often wondered when he first met Chen Yi?
I went with my father to visit the headmaster, but finding it boring to play chess and drink tea, I decided to go and have fun on my own.
At that time, Chen Yi was still a young boy, squatting in the woods to bandage a kitten. He did not have the sharpness of decisive killing many years later, but only had the air of a scholar.
"Whose child are you? Here, do you want to eat?"
The lights of the library not far away reflected in his eyes, warm and bright, making him yearn for it.
"Big brother, your candy is so delicious, and you are so pretty. When I grow up, will you marry me?"
Chen Yi laughed, "I gave you a bag of candy beans and you said you wanted to marry me, making me look like a human trafficker who kidnapped children."
Qu Duiyan was a little sad, "Don't you like me?"
"When you grow up, you will find that I am not good-looking at all. There will be many people who like you. You will also like very good people. When you think about today, you will definitely feel ridiculous and regret it." Chen Yi touched the top of her head, "It doesn't matter, I won't bother with you."
Qu Duiyan always remembered this sentence.
Later, she did laugh at her own absurdity when she was young. She thought she could fall in love with someone else, and she had once felt a little moved by the white-haired boy at the flower-folding party.
But what comes and goes in my mind, the clearest and most profound thing is still Chen Yi's appearance.
She wrote in a letter to two close friends: "He should have forgotten it long ago, and even if he remembered, he would not recognize it as me."
He is the youthful impulse of falling in love at first sight, and he is also the long-lasting love that develops over time.
There is nothing better than this.
It's another spring breeze blowing on the willows, and I'm tired of combing my hair in the morning.
The woman, whose beauty surpassed that of spring flowers, flicked her sleeves and turned into a water mirror. She looked at herself in the mirror and asked, "Am I pretty?"
Chen Yi became nervous and answered seriously, "It looks good."
"How beautiful is it? It's so flawless that you never get tired of looking at it?"
"Of course."
"You're just being perfunctory with me. There's no such thing as perfection in the world."
Chen Yi felt at a loss whether to laugh or cry. He lowered his eyes and tied her hair up, then put on a jade hairpin with flowing beads.
Qu Duiyan looked in the mirror and admired the ingenuity of his Taoist partner. He forgot about his own unreasonableness in a blink of an eye, but suddenly heard the man say, "There is no such thing as a perfect face in the world. It is just the face of the person you love."
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