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Back then, she had believed all her forbearance meant something. Until... as her life was about to end, she finally understood how wrong she had been. The man she loved had no backbone, and his father was a venomous snake who struck from the shadows. She only hated herself for saving Zhou Ji in the first place!

If that was how it was, she would make him give that life back!

By the time Xin Ci came to her senses, rage had eclipsed everything. She had made a deal with a devil. No longer a mortal woman, she had entered the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion through a twist of fate and become the pavilion master's junior martial sister.

With that status, she could crush the Zhou Household of Nanfeng City without lifting a finger.

She was delighted and could hardly wait to return for revenge. But the devil she had bargained with would not let her go back at once. Instead, it told her to devote herself to cultivation and wait until the Five Sects Assembly to exact the cruelest revenge.

So Xin Ci endured. She endured and endured until the Five Sects Assembly finally arrived, and at last she could kill her enemies with her own hands. But her time at the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion had gradually brought her peace. Often, she no longer even wanted revenge. If she could stay on Heavenly Secrets Mountain, she... would even try to forget the past.

But the devil told her she had to take revenge.

Xin Ci began to regret signing the Soul Contract with the devil. Bound by it, she had no choice but to find ways to appear before the Zhou father and son time and again, leading the Zhou Household step by step toward ruin.

And in the end,