Tian Yao starts as a weak person, hurt both in the body and spirit, with only the thought of revenge in his heart and plans to use Yan Hui as a tool for his goal. Little does he know, that Yan Hui will tear down his walls with her blunt and obstinate personality. After realizing how important she becomes for him, he desists in wanting to complete his goal as obtaining the last piece will result in Yan Hui's death. I love how in the last part of the novel, their situations are reversed: Tian Yao is strong while Yan Hui is weak, Tian Yao doesn't want to use Yan Hui any longer but she willingly decides to help him in reaching his goal without him knowing.

Take Su Ying who cruelly dismembered the ML's body for stealing his dragon scales. She did it because she wanted to protect her lover and considered the ML only a demon. As the saying goes, every villain is the hero of his own story and in another novel she really could be the protagonist who tries every way to save her lover and in the end she fails. Obviously, love doesn't justify her actions, but it makes her a relatable character, by the end I also pitied her because she was left with nothing.

They have a happy ending!

Even 24 chapters in, he is not in love with Yan Hui. He uses her, he needs her, he sticks to her. But he still isn't in love. He will obviously fall for her, but only when it will make sense, and that's what makes me love him.

These are Mild spoilers. I know you want to know everything. But, no. I want you to cry with me.

Our ML, Tian Yao, is a Dragon Demon who was brutally dismembered by the one he had loved. His heart, tendons, bones, scales, horns, and soul were viciously stripped from him and sealed away. While being skinned alive, Tian Yao used all his cultivation to send his heart protection scale away from his murderers.

As you can tell, this is Tian Yao's revenge journey. Tian Yao's soul was released from its seal and he began to wander in search of his other sealed body parts. When he located a sealed part, he possessed a silly boy from a village nearby and worked to release the seal. He couldn't. He had no power, strength, ability, he was hopeless for ten years, until Yan Hui who is a Xian cultivator poisoned by a snake demon, floated down the river. She was picked up by traffickers and sold to the grandmother of the body Tian Yao possessed, as a bride for her grandson. That is how our MC Yan Hui, meets our ML Tian Yao.

I feel like I already spoiled too much.

The conspiracy is deep, nothing is completely black or white in this story. There is a lot of loss and heartache. Read it if you can handle moping around for a day after reading this, because this is a happy ending in a cruel mess. But you can always remember this one thing.

Somewhere in that world, there is a happy family that has no flipping idea that Yan Hui's life is being thrashed around by fate. Somewhere, there is a family living their best life completely unaffected. Which is funny to me, because Yan Hui and Tian Yao's lives are falling apart, but they are just two small beings. It consoles my broken heart a bit, since I usually feel second-hand emotions from these stories.

I didn't like how FL chose to prioritize the greater good (for her shifu) and yet, wishing for ML to be happy, liking him by fooling him.

I didn't like the hypocrisy of FL that she acted like she was sacrificing for ML.

FL acted like her shifu: Concealing her actions and assuming it was better decision for the other party. Doing this without asking for the opinion of ML was a selfish act. In the end, she deceived him and used him to "save" the world. She forced him to do what she wanted and did not have the least bit of consideration of his perspective. FL knew how devastating the feeling of guilt when her shifu didn't reveal anything to her. And she did the same thing to ML.

For the world, yes, FL did the right thing. But for ML? She was unfair to him. She pushed him to the pit without him knowing. Just like Su Ying. The difference is that, FL let him live in his previous "glory". *Rolls eyes*

Anyways, it was a happy ending. FL has a backup plan when she planned to sacrificed herself. So all are well.

I do hope one day the misunderstanding between Zi Yue and MC will be cleared up though...

The shifu. From the start of the story, the MC strongly believe that her shifu will never do those accusations towards him. But as the story goes by, and "evidences" resurfaced, the faith of MC slowly crumble until there's nothing left (and I feel the same way as the MC as she unfold the truth). But then, at the end of the story, you'll know his reasons but it's already too late, and just can't help but pity him. He have his own reasons and he was greatly misunderstood. Tbh, I also disliked him. Just like the MC, I have faith towards him at the beginning. But as the story move forward, I felt like some actions of him were just too much thus, I disliked him. But he made me cry and ache for him after knowing his reasons. Though some of his actions is still not justifiable for me, I feel like if only he communicated with the MC and didn't hide it from her, I feel like it won't end like that. That is one of my regret for him, and the other is him and the MC not having their closure.

The ML's wrong love (LOL because I refused to call her his "true love" and that's how she is anw). I don't feel any pity for her because her actions just to justify her reasons were too much. TOO MUCH. She's selfish, and cold-hearted. Yes, even though she was capable of loving someone, she's still cold-hearted for me. And yes, also manipulative, just to add. And can I just say how she always think she's in the right and her actions justifiable because the ML is just a "demon" and she's a xian, the "goody" one. She treated all the demons as the evil when in fact, she's the cruelest evil to ever exist in the story. She and her selfish reason caused the ML to feel not just the pain of betrayal of a loved one, but also the coldness of dying and being dismembered. For 20 years. All the ML did was sincerely love her but she exchanged it with great pain and betrayal just to grant her real lover immortality. Okay, she did it for her loved one. But she caused someone else pain and never felt any guilt about it and never regret it till her last breath. So, how can I feel any pity for her? Also, not just towards the ML but to other demons too. She never felt gulity killing many of them for her selfish reasons. She also caused pain towards her own "lover" by killing the one he love in that present lifetime. And yes, it's satisfying to know that at the end, before she died, she lost everyone she love. And her knowing in her deathbed, that her lover, although remembering his past life memories, still did not chose to love her in the current lifetime and chose who he love in this lifetime, and he died at the hands of her too. There's no other great retribution knowing the one you love do not love you anymore, who also happen to love someone else now, and you're the cause of his death, and he chose death to be together with his chosen love to accompany her on the other life.

I hope for the side characters, in their next lifetime with their lovers, for them to finally have their only happy ending. The love story of the other side characters were just too tragic, although there were other side characters love story that were able to survived and have their own HE.

And also!! Can I just cry a min for Senior Disciple? He's the purest, selfless, and kind-hearted overall in the story, he don't deserve that kind of ending!!!!! Author, just why???? And why are there no tags for death of loved ones!!!?! There's no warning at all!!! *sobs*

The ML wants MC help him collect his other parts because she's the key. Why? Because she has his protection scale that able to save her when she was born, so somehow, she owes him her life. That's reasonable. But, the MC is aware of the danger she will face thus, she don't want to get involve. But if she won't help him, she'll also die too once he dies. There's not really right or wrong choice for them. It's not their fault, but the villains who put them in that situation. Because if the ML wasn't dismembered by the villains, they won't be in that kind of situation. But that also mean the MC won't live long. So yeah, it's kind of a blessing in disguise. A blessing in disguise they were fated to meet.

who can happily buy a girl from a human trafficker (of course this bish too) to become her mentally challenged grandson's wife. Especially after her crash course on how to take the girl on the first night. Imagine if it wasn't the ML and actually a real little fool. And it wasn't the FL and just a normal mortal girl.... Well I know it's an ancient setting and it's sorta 'expected' but I'm still infuriated.

And the ML actually plotted against her for almost all of the series. From the first time they met and how he put a tracking spell on the food he fed her. And then blackmailed her into believing it's a life-threatening curse and coercing her into following him to a cave to retrieve his sealed bones where he freakin STABBED HER through the heart without any forewarning.... TWICE! Yes I know he's a poor guy with trust issues developed after being brutally betrayed by his ex-lover... but this is the sorta behaviour that give trust issues to the others too. And FL at that point being a near complete stranger (one that was being held against her will at that) really didn't deserve having to put up with all his sh!t.

ending up dead for a while towards the end.