Painfully shy and conflict-averse, Yun Ruoyan is a scion to a noble house only in name, a puppet embroiled in political machinations beyond her ken. At the tender age of eighteen, poisoned and at death’s door, she finds herself thrown out into the streets. Her relatives have all been executed, betrayed by her dear husband and her cousin. With her dying breath, she curses her own weakness and swears revenge.
When Yun Ruoyan awakens once more, she is thirteen, transported five years into the past by the will of the heavens. Her death-defying experience has changed her: no longer is she the malleable creature she once was. But more questions await at every corner—what is the truth behind the birthmark that disfigures her appearance? What are the circumstances surrounding her mother’s mysterious death?
Will the phoenix rise from the ashes, or will she fall once more in thrall to fate?
- Chapter 1: The Weak Have No Right to Live
- Chapter 4: Trash Deserves to be Punished
- Chapter 7: Purging Unsavory Elements
- Chapter 10: Just You Wait, Yun Ruoyao!
- Chapter 13: Cut Off Her Path Forward
- Chapter 16: The Feilai Blade
- Chapter 19: He Has to Be Saved
- Chapter 22: A Little Interesting
- Chapter 25: A Pack of Dogs
- Chapter 28: The Saber-toothed Tiger
- Chapter 31: A Piece for You
- Chapter 34: Bumbling About
- Chapter 37: On What Grounds?
- Chapter 40: Breakthrough
- Chapter 43: Cave by the Cliff
- Chapter 46: Treasures from the Snake Den
- Chapter 49: Dream
- Chapter 52: This Can’t Be It!
- Chapter 55: Awakened Talent
- Chapter 58: Watching Someone Beat a Dog
- Chapter 61: Split in Two
- Chapter 64: A Human Furnace
- Chapter 67: It’s Gone?!
- Chapter 70: Entering the Palace
- Chapter 73: Death by Recklessness
- Chapter 76: A Flower on a Cowpat
- Chapter 79: I’m Not Willing!
- Chapter 82: Retribution
- Chapter 85: Dispelling the Poison
- Chapter 88: Demonic Ring
- Chapter 91: Refining Pills
- Chapter 94: Something More Potent
- Chapter 97: Something Fishy About the Beads
- Chapter 100: I’ll Carry Her!
- Chapter 103: A Calm Veneer
- Chapter 106: Traps Within Traps
- Chapter 109: Night in the Dark Forest
- Chapter 112: Who Are You?
- Chapter 115: A Proper Accounting
- Chapter 118: Source of the Poison
- Chapter 121: First Concoction
- Chapter 124: A Fork in the Road
- Chapter 127: Caught!
- Chapter 130: Official Business
- Chapter 133: Mind Reading
- Chapter 136: Another Breakthrough!
- Chapter 139: Love, Blossoming
- Chapter 142: Schemes in Action
- Chapter 145: Making Waves
- Chapter 148: The Slave Li Luo
- Chapter 151: Injured
- Chapter 154: A Sealed Secret
- Chapter 157: Pei Ziao’s Gone Crazy
- Chapter 160: A Secret That Must Remain Hidden
- Chapter 163: Save Me...
- Chapter 166: News From General Huang
- Chapter 169: A Reasonable Demand
- Chapter 172: To Shift the Blame
- Chapter 175: Either You Or Me
- Chapter 178: Horse Thief
- Chapter 181: Quota
- Chapter 184: Preparing for the Hunt
- Chapter 187: Underwater Mural
- Chapter 190: Taken Away
- Chapter 193: Identifying the Culprit
- Chapter 196: You Overestimated Yourself
- Chapter 199: Kill Them All
- Chapter 202: Birth of a Spiritual Treasure
- Chapter 205: Sleight of Hand
- Chapter 208: Making Things Difficult
- Chapter 211: Within the Minghuang Cave
- Chapter 214: The Mysterious Snake Ring
- Chapter 217: The Draconic Race
- Chapter 220: Changing Colleges
- Chapter 223: The Black-Robed Man
- Chapter 226: By Hook or by Crook
- Chapter 229: The Farsighted King’s Ambition
- Chapter 232: As You Wish
- Chapter 235: The All-Seeing Mirror
- Chapter 238: Mr. Dragon
- Chapter 241: Abduction
- Chapter 244: Deal
- Chapter 247: Su Nan and Li Mo
- Chapter 250: Refusal
- Chapter 253: Subdivision
- Chapter 256: Catching the Bird
- Chapter 259: Long Yan’er
- Chapter 262: Caught!
- Chapter 265: Overswing
- Chapter 268: Ripening
- Chapter 271: Fleeing Groundrat
- Chapter 274: Murderer
- Chapter 277: Admission of Guilt
- Chapter 280: Demonic Bloodline
- Chapter 283: A Heart-Stealing Demon
- Chapter 286: Contents of the Archives
- Chapter 289: Angry
- Chapter 292: The Scarlet Eye
- Chapter 295: Speaking Up
- Chapter 298: Infiltrating Qin Jianmei’s Cottage
- Chapter 301: True Colors
- Chapter 304: Why the Change?
- Chapter 307: Year After Year
- Chapter 310: A Candlelit Night
- Chapter 313: The Mysterious Realm
- Chapter 316: Beast Spirit Valley
- Chapter 319: The Alternate Dimension
- Chapter 322: Power of the Talisman
- Chapter 325: It Was You!
- Chapter 328: Start of the Term
- Chapter 331: Whitey, Catfish, and the Gathering-Spirit Pill
- Chapter 334: No Regrets
- Chapter 337: I’m Not a Ghost!
- Chapter 340: Apprehension
- Chapter 343: Entering the Otherworld
- Chapter 346: Reported
- Chapter 349: Li Mo, Enslaved
- Chapter 352: Recovered Cultivation
- Chapter 355: The Final Protection
- Chapter 358: The Feng Family’s Enticement
- Chapter 361: Pi Yan vs. Feng Bo
- Chapter 364: Reunion
- Chapter 367: Cooperation
- Chapter 370: Pleasure Den
- Chapter 373: Pi Yang’s Heart
- Chapter 376: Yun Ruoyan’s Audacious Plan
- Chapter 379: Hostage
- Chapter 382: I’ll Listen to You From Now On
- Chapter 385: I Can’t Sleep Alone
- Chapter 388: The Dead Cannot Speak
- Chapter 391: Escape and Capture
- Chapter 394: The Pi Alliance
- Chapter 397: Pi Yang’s Arm
- Chapter 400: Feng Bo’s Timely Assistance
- Chapter 403: The Corpselike Lie Yun
- Chapter 406: Reclaiming the Spirit Crystal Vein
- Chapter 409: The Lost Spatial Ring
- Chapter 412: Ends and Beginnings
- Chapter 415: Countermeasures
- Chapter 418: The Price of Rashness
- Chapter 421: Chance Encounter with Feng Mian
- Chapter 424: Assassination
- Chapter 427: Zhuo Yifeng’s Fight
- Chapter 430: Ingredients for Producing Holy Water
- Chapter 433: Trapped in an Illusion
- Chapter 436: Three Old Geezers
- Chapter 439: The Demonic Dragon Forefather and the All-Seeing Mirror
- Chapter 442: Annals of the Li Kingdom
- Chapter 445: You’re Saved
- Chapter 448: Self-Recrimination
- Chapter 451: Human Jerky
- Chapter 454: Silver Dragon Envoy
- Chapter 457: Compromise
- Chapter 460: The New Head
- Chapter 463: Decision
- Chapter 466: Get Rid of Her
- Chapter 469: Entering the Jiyuan Continent
- Chapter 472: Negotiations
- Chapter 475: An Unusual Holy Maiden
- Chapter 478: Offering a Sacrifice
- Chapter 481: Willing to Accompany Me
- Chapter 484: Chicanery
- Chapter 487: Li Yan, Saved
- Chapter 490: The Draconic Formation
- Chapter 2: Rebirth and Return
- Chapter 5: There’s Hope Yet
- Chapter 8: Breathtaking
- Chapter 11: Who’s Courting Death?
- Chapter 14: You’re Becoming Unbearable
- Chapter 17: Subduing the Blade Spirit
- Chapter 20: Not for Nothing
- Chapter 23: Into the Imperial Territory
- Chapter 26: We Meet Again
- Chapter 29: Slain!
- Chapter 32: The Array’s Exit?
- Chapter 35: Beast Stampede
- Chapter 38: A Test of Strength
- Chapter 41: Dead Men Tell No Tales
- Chapter 44: I’ll Rescue Them!
- Chapter 47: The Second Round
- Chapter 50: The Death of Lin Yuemei
- Chapter 53: Three Ranks in Succession
- Chapter 56: Exchange
- Chapter 59: It’s Him!
- Chapter 62: It’s Just Beginning
- Chapter 65: It’s You!
- Chapter 68: Terrified
- Chapter 71: The Reveal
- Chapter 74: So That’s the Case
- Chapter 77: Antidote in the Greenhouse
- Chapter 80: I Don’t Mind!
- Chapter 83: The Time is Ripe
- Chapter 86: Challenge
- Chapter 89: The Empty Book
- Chapter 92: Roping In
- Chapter 95: A Daoist Spiritual Master
- Chapter 98: Unbelievable
- Chapter 101: Angered to Death!
- Chapter 104: Accident
- Chapter 107: Heavenly Vow
- Chapter 110: A Talkative Demon
- Chapter 113: Saved!
- Chapter 116: Hidden Words
- Chapter 119: The Fragrant Garden
- Chapter 122: Whitey
- Chapter 125: Breaking Out
- Chapter 128: Romance Unbidden
- Chapter 131: Already Betrothed
- Chapter 134: Into the Underground Market
- Chapter 137: Green Flame
- Chapter 140: The Yuelu Villa
- Chapter 143: The Sin of Gluttony
- Chapter 146: Dim is the Night
- Chapter 149: Kidnapping
- Chapter 152: Rescue
- Chapter 155: The Most Malicious Revenge
- Chapter 158: Heading to the Slaughtering King’s Manor
- Chapter 161: The Challenge Remains Valid
- Chapter 164: Intoxicating Fog
- Chapter 167: Really Getting Better
- Chapter 170: Be More Careful
- Chapter 173: Into the Crown Prince’s Manor
- Chapter 176: The Boy of the Story
- Chapter 179: An Opportunity Emerges
- Chapter 182: Eight-Legged Evil Spirit
- Chapter 185: Shot Dead
- Chapter 188: Underwater Battle
- Chapter 191: Charred Fish
- Chapter 194: Rescue
- Chapter 197: Appearance of the Blade Spirit
- Chapter 200: A Last Glance
- Chapter 203: Seizing the Treasure
- Chapter 206: Warmth Within the Cold
- Chapter 209: Becoming the Master
- Chapter 212: Victory
- Chapter 215: Demonic Sight
- Chapter 218: Fog from the Front
- Chapter 221: Strike
- Chapter 224: Roll Call
- Chapter 227: Shock and Awe
- Chapter 230: Closure of the Beastmaster Institution
- Chapter 233: The Mysterious Black-Robed Man
- Chapter 236: Black Box
- Chapter 239: Entering the Palace
- Chapter 242: Secret Records of the Farsighted King’s Manor
- Chapter 245: Portal to Another Dimension
- Chapter 248: A Severe Accusation
- Chapter 251: Weak Spot
- Chapter 254: Soul-Stealing Bird
- Chapter 257: Giant Bull
- Chapter 260: Miasmic Vine
- Chapter 263: Spiritual Treasure
- Chapter 266: Realization
- Chapter 269: Disappearance
- Chapter 272: Dead
- Chapter 275: Discovered
- Chapter 278: Message
- Chapter 281: Madam Qin’s Cottage
- Chapter 284: Sneaking into the Manor
- Chapter 287: My Life is Mine Alone
- Chapter 290: I’ll Tell You Everything
- Chapter 293: Betrothal
- Chapter 296: The Art of Swordflight
- Chapter 299: Kidnapped
- Chapter 302: Originally a Demon
- Chapter 305: Events of the Past
- Chapter 308: Coming of Age
- Chapter 311: The Vanished Realm
- Chapter 314: Without End
- Chapter 317: Strangers From a Strange Land
- Chapter 320: The Origin of the Silver Bracelet
- Chapter 323: Li Mo’s Injury
- Chapter 326: A Candid Confession
- Chapter 329: Armory
- Chapter 332: Dual Cultivation Technique
- Chapter 335: Observing the Fight
- Chapter 338: Not a Puppet
- Chapter 341: You Can’t Go
- Chapter 344: Like a Turtle in a Jar
- Chapter 347: Li Mo Breaks Through
- Chapter 350: Shelter
- Chapter 353: Killing the Two Brothers
- Chapter 356: The Eldest Son of the Lin Family
- Chapter 359: The Lost Message
- Chapter 362: Friends, Not Enemies
- Chapter 365: The Feng Family
- Chapter 368: In Search of Li Mo
- Chapter 371: Performance
- Chapter 374: Entering the Dueling Arena
- Chapter 377: Suspicion and Scrutiny
- Chapter 380: By Brute Force
- Chapter 383: Ten-Day Deadline
- Chapter 386: Unbelievable
- Chapter 389: The Planned Capture
- Chapter 392: The Backer Behind the Pi Family
- Chapter 395: Draconic Power
- Chapter 398: Rescuing Yun Ruoyan
- Chapter 401: Guess
- Chapter 404: Antidote
- Chapter 407: Secret Troops
- Chapter 410: Marriage Plans
- Chapter 413: Adulthood
- Chapter 416: Instigation
- Chapter 419: I’m With Child
- Chapter 422: Rescuing Feng Mian
- Chapter 425: Lord Feng Yicheng
- Chapter 428: Preparing for a Sneak Attack
- Chapter 431: Tracking
- Chapter 434: Zhuo Yifeng’s Compromise
- Chapter 437: Reopening the Portal to Another Dimension
- Chapter 440: Demonic Dragon Elder
- Chapter 443: Harboring Doubts
- Chapter 446: Shocking News
- Chapter 449: A Cruel Punishment
- Chapter 452: Li Yan, Captured
- Chapter 455: Heading to the Lin Family
- Chapter 458: Yun Moxiao’s Return
- Chapter 461: Yun Moxiao’s Wedding
- Chapter 464: Rebirth
- Chapter 467: Mouse in the Trap
- Chapter 470: Thinking of a Plan
- Chapter 473: Unable to Leave
- Chapter 476: Compatible Natures
- Chapter 479: Nightmarish Rites
- Chapter 482: Li Yan, Caught
- Chapter 485: The Battle Draws Near
- Chapter 488: Returning to the Battlefield
- Chapter 491: Double Dragon Transformation
- Chapter 3: Those Who Take Advantage of Me
- Chapter 6: A Problem With the Birthmark
- Chapter 9: The Interior of the Bracelet
- Chapter 12: A Pity About Her Face
- Chapter 15: An Old Trick From the Past
- Chapter 18: A Clean Death
- Chapter 21: Equivalent Exchange
- Chapter 24: A Night Leopard
- Chapter 27: Search for the Exit
- Chapter 30: Explanation
- Chapter 33: We’ve Been Had!
- Chapter 36: Our Lives are Yours
- Chapter 39: Another Victory
- Chapter 42: Lethality
- Chapter 45: Wild Vine Spirit
- Chapter 48: Antidote
- Chapter 51: I Don’t Accept!
- Chapter 54: Who Is It?
- Chapter 57: The Slaughtering King
- Chapter 60: An Ugly, Useless Girl
- Chapter 63: The Prince of Beasts
- Chapter 66: Invitation
- Chapter 69: Begging for Mercy
- Chapter 72: To Plot Against
- Chapter 75: Relying on Myself
- Chapter 78: Betrothal Pronouncement
- Chapter 81: The Truth of the Matter
- Chapter 84: Taking Responsibility
- Chapter 87: Response
- Chapter 90: Conspiracy
- Chapter 93: Still in Time!
- Chapter 96: A Surprising Secret
- Chapter 99: Carry Her on Her Back
- Chapter 102: Grudge
- Chapter 105: Response
- Chapter 108: True Form
- Chapter 111: Black Bear
- Chapter 114: The Siblings Reunite
- Chapter 117: Madam An’s Hatred
- Chapter 120: The Decision
- Chapter 123: Snake Pact
- Chapter 126: A Startling Secret
- Chapter 129: Helping Him Out
- Chapter 132: Will He Help?
- Chapter 135: Don’t Pretend to be Dead
- Chapter 138: Clues
- Chapter 141: A Senseless Price
- Chapter 144: The Dueling Arena
- Chapter 147: Return
- Chapter 150: An Enemy’s Visage
- Chapter 153: The Demonic Duo
- Chapter 156: An Imminent Show
- Chapter 159: Jealousy
- Chapter 162: The Skinny Monkey Dou Yao
- Chapter 165: Pretending To Be a Fool
- Chapter 168: A Crease by the Waist
- Chapter 171: At the Yi Manor
- Chapter 174: In One Ear, Out the Other
- Chapter 177: Setting Off
- Chapter 180: Entering Kongming Academy
- Chapter 183: Invitation
- Chapter 186: Wanting to Share in the Spoils
- Chapter 189: Instigation
- Chapter 192: Impossible
- Chapter 195: Demonic Arts
- Chapter 198: Spiritual Sense
- Chapter 201: Unabandonable Warmth
- Chapter 204: Results of the Trial
- Chapter 207: Shock Treatment
- Chapter 210: Honesty
- Chapter 213: Entrapment
- Chapter 216: Dispelling the Demon
- Chapter 219: Empress Xue Tong
- Chapter 222: Not Dead
- Chapter 225: Called Out
- Chapter 228: Sent to Death
- Chapter 231: Tyrant of the Northern College
- Chapter 234: Beating Him at His Own Game
- Chapter 237: Returning to the Capital
- Chapter 240: The Poisoner’s Disciple
- Chapter 243: A Precious Constitution
- Chapter 246: The Elders’ Meeting
- Chapter 249: Domineering Skill
- Chapter 252: Intermediate Training Ground
- Chapter 255: Bewitching Flower vs. Fire Hog
- Chapter 258: Eating Well, Sleeping Well
- Chapter 261: Half-Spirit
- Chapter 264: Song Yi’s Accidental Death
- Chapter 267: Means and Methods
- Chapter 270: Consuming the Heavenly Spirit Fruit
- Chapter 273: A Curious Incident
- Chapter 276: Scapegoat
- Chapter 279: Not Dead!
- Chapter 282: A Clue From Old Zha
- Chapter 285: The Genuine Farsighted King
- Chapter 288: Killing Three Demons
- Chapter 291: Meeting Empress Xue Tong
- Chapter 294: Inquiry
- Chapter 297: Manipulation
- Chapter 300: Conversation in the Teahouse
- Chapter 303: A Rapacious Ambition
- Chapter 306: Yun Lan’s Strength
- Chapter 309: Right and Proper
- Chapter 312: A Certain Question
- Chapter 315: Those From the Beastmaster Institution
- Chapter 318: The Youth Pi Yang
- Chapter 321: The Red-Haired Man
- Chapter 324: Treatment
- Chapter 327: Reopening the Beastmaster Institute
- Chapter 330: The New Expedition Members
- Chapter 333: A Mysterious Shadow
- Chapter 336: Zhou Lin’s Sudden Insanity
- Chapter 339: Awakening
- Chapter 342: Reappearance of the Shade
- Chapter 345: The Impetuous Fatso
- Chapter 348: Breaking the Barrier
- Chapter 351: Li Mo’s Decision
- Chapter 354: The Chase
- Chapter 357: Joining the Group
- Chapter 360: Surrounded
- Chapter 363: Black Spiritual Energy
- Chapter 366: Pill of False Death
- Chapter 369: The Mute Woman
- Chapter 372: An Extortionate Price
- Chapter 375: Victory to the Feng Family
- Chapter 378: Deciding to Leave
- Chapter 381: Breaking the Bracelet’s Seal
- Chapter 384: Temporary Stability
- Chapter 387: The Feng Banquet
- Chapter 390: Scheme
- Chapter 393: The Claws of the Pi Family
- Chapter 396: Zhuo Yifeng and the Demonic Spirit
- Chapter 399: Battle Above the Pi City
- Chapter 402: Meeting Lie Fenglan
- Chapter 405: What’s in the Carriage?
- Chapter 408: Housekeeper Hu and Pi Yang
- Chapter 411: Pi Yang and Lie Yun
- Chapter 414: I’ll Kill You!
- Chapter 417: Disappointment
- Chapter 420: The Tragic End of the Courtesan Troupe
- Chapter 423: Plan Within a Plan
- Chapter 426: Challenge
- Chapter 429: Listening In
- Chapter 432: Surrounded
- Chapter 435: The Unsealed Feilai Blade
- Chapter 438: Plans in Motion
- Chapter 441: Returning to the Slaughtering King’s Manor
- Chapter 444: Intercession
- Chapter 447: Soup and Snacks
- Chapter 450: A Grand Deception
- Chapter 453: Clearing Out Weeds
- Chapter 456: Fated
- Chapter 459: Yun Moxiao Meets His Mother
- Chapter 462: Acting on One’s Own
- Chapter 465: Repeated Breakthroughs
- Chapter 468: The Passing of the Demonic Dragon Forefather
- Chapter 471: Finding Zhuo Yifeng
- Chapter 474: Another
- Chapter 477: Only in Name
- Chapter 480: Breaking the Formation
- Chapter 483: A Sudden Development
- Chapter 486: Rescuing Li Yan
- Chapter 489: The Dragon Orb
- Chapter 492: Eternal Happiness (Fin.)