Just when she and the ML were having their most sweet time after finally being able to accept him (and this was a really hard choice for her), Ling Li's maid cheats Su Li into going to a point in the city. Her aunt, in her early pregnancy, happens to be stalking Su Li (she wanted to talk to her, she knew Su Li was her niece and Su Li knew she was her aunt, but they did not tell each other yet). She decides to follow Su Li to where was she going this late. Arriving at the appointed place, Su Li encounters an ambush.

Ling Li's maid was a hermit cult princess (the cult ML is the leader) and could not hold onto her jealousy because she was mad in love with the ml. She fakes a history and calls a cult elder with higher cultivation to kill Su Li. And he is way stronger than her. When he was about to crush Su Li's head her aunt takes the blow instead and dies trying to buy time so she can escape. Another elder that found the request fishy comes desperately and finds Su Li almost dead. The maid (sorry, forgot the name) instead still tries to kill Su Li. But now Su Li with her aunt's death lost her reason and with the distraction the new elder gave, she picked the maid and was going to crush her neck. But at this moment ML arrives and only gets to see that Su Li is killing his maid. He asks her to stop but she turns a deaf ear and crushes her throat. When he arrived the only thing he did was to blame her why did he kill her? and the maid died in happiness that in the end, he chose her side.

Heartbroken, Su Li tells him that their fate thus has ended and goes away. After he finds that the situation is fishy and inquires more. It turned out the maid ambushed Su Li and in the end, her aunt died in her instead. Because of him and his hermit gate. One body two deaths. This blood debt makes it impossible for them to reconcile. Then he crashes the maid's coffin and tells how ruthless she was, that in the end, she made it so that they had not the chance to get together ever.

Su Li was doomed to die due to her injuries but she had to pay a heavy price so that she could have more time to make sure everyone that was beside her was covered up so she could just die silently, without regrets. Those parts... were hard to read.

Even with this debt, ML didn't give up on her. The emperor made a plot so that Su Li the talented was forced to marry Ling Li the capital's nº1 waste so she could protect her family. They married, she still hated him to the bones. But he still took on all the ab*se. As he said, if one year not, if ten years not, then he had all his life so he can seek her forgiveness, and he would not give up her. He was s*upid with the maid ambush at first, but he was so determined on her, even staying at her side was enough that it was silly. He did let her down many times because he had to have his revenge but in the end, you cannot hate him.

One more sad note. For the aunt to be able to get pregnant is really hard because of her age and cultivation. Just sometime earlier before the ambush, Su Li, in her disguise, finds her aunt pregnant. The members of the pub throw out a party. The aunt's husband was silly beyond comparison. It was a really sweet moment. But then she died. The uncle did not blame Su Li and even tried to console her. he just buried his wife beside Su li's mother's grave and quietly disappeared. Maybe he just died afterward from grief. This was really heartbreaking.

The chapters all the way up to the aunts death are not the best, but they certainly aren't the worst. I actually read up to around there and was so enraged by something that happened that I quit the book for a couple months. I was bored later so I decided to just restart and be prepared to be upset again (I was,) but after those couple of chapters were over I was completely submerged in the story. The cultivation world was bad but it was only that cultivation world, it turned out that they were actually in a treasure mine (basically one) and almost all of their memories were wiped of it. The enemies weren't actually the Male leads admirers or step-sisters, but something totally deeper than that. And the Male lead didn't not appreciate the Female lead's help and chose revenge over love because he didn't know she was helping him. It was apparent in the later 500th early 600th that he would definitely choose her over revenge. There are still some things I didn't like but there will never be a perfect book. She forgives (it seems like anyway) her master (not the beginning master) even though the master used her, and it seems like she will forgive the rest too, which is annoying. But it's definitely not some "I'm sorry" and then she immediately forgives them, though it does feel like that for the master still.

Almost everyone died except Ling Li, the son and the mother

I'm dropping this novel. I actually liked the schemes and the fact that FL isn't really the goody two shoes type. But the romance made me stop continuing it. ML doesn't deserve her imo like I know it wasn't his fault that FL's aunt died but he should be held accountable cuz it would've been avoided if he wasn't so "naive" and trusting (for god's sake he already experienced betrayal by his own sister that costed him his life, so shouldn't he be more cautious this time?) I was rooting for the SML even though I knew it's not gonna happen (I had hope man) but this greatly disappointed me and now my day is ruined.

this is just like any revenge novel with better scheming FL who can use people for her benefit (well people who she doesn't care about that is) and the romance is also kinda typical. It would've been great if they did a plot twist by making the FL end up with the SML. But the novel overall was good it just wasn't my cup of tea (I just want more FL who is way more ruthless T^T)

we had a side story that discribed their first incarnation where MC was ugly and met ml

we never had a meeting between the MC and ML at the end. Their son also saw into the memories of the lotus I think but it was never expanded on. The MC also had the star path to explore and her parentage. Who was the fate lord in the end. So much left to expand on before the story ended.