Madam, please ascend.

Chapter 1 Concentric Gu

"Chouya, go and see if he's dead."

A dirty hand gently touched the tip of the man's nose.

"Mother, he seems to be dead."

"Then check if he has any money on him."

The hand reached into the man's arms again and took out a heavy purse.

"Mom, I have money!"

"how many?"

"Several dozen taels!"

"Take out five taels and put the rest back. He saved my life and my mother's life, so we should at least bury him."

Chou Ya's eyes rolled around, obviously not taking her mother's words to heart.

Don’t waste the dead person’s money.

That's dozens of taels of silver. My mother can't earn that much money even if she works hard for a whole year.

Chou Ya secretly put the purse away, and the blind mother didn't know at all. But the man lying on the ground suddenly moved. It was really strange. He was obviously dead just now, how could he suddenly seem to be alive again?

Glancing at her mother not far away and seeing that she didn't seem to notice anything unusual, Chou Ya pulled out a dagger from her sleeve, aimed it at the man's heart, and prepared to inflict a fatal wound.

Don't blame me, blame the world.

The tip of the dagger touched the man's chest, but Chou Ya was still a little hesitant, so she didn't use any force.

But he was the savior of my mother and me. If it weren't for him, my mother might have been beaten to death and I would have been kidnapped and sold.

One thought is life, the other thought is death.

One thought of God, one thought of devil.

Yun Yi suddenly opened his eyes and met the eyes of the destined person.

He ignored the extremely ugly face, and at this moment, he only had eyes for the other person. The two of them looked at each other, and their hearts were connected.

How could one describe those eyes? They were like glittering stars, a summer night breeze, or a mirror-smooth lake, reflecting the gazer's joys, sorrows, anger, and happiness. All secrets were revealed before them.

But such a pair of beautiful eyes are placed on an extremely ugly face, which makes it look very impactful.

"We meet again, Song Xinci."

Yun Yi greeted his wife from his previous life in his heart, and at the same time, he grabbed the end of the dagger with his hand, just covering Chou Ya's little hand to prevent her from exerting force downwards.

Delicate and warm, familiar touch.

Chou Ya was shocked because she didn't expect the dead to be resurrected, but she was not an ordinary person. In this situation, she actually refrained from making a sound, for fear of disturbing her blind mother.

Yun Yi looked at his wife's ugly appearance and suddenly realized that after he fell off the cliff and died, he had returned to the time when he first met her.

At that time, he was just a scholar who came to Beijing to take the imperial examination. He accidentally saw a ruffian molesting a blind woman and threatening to sell her ugly daughter to a brothel. Although no man would be attracted to her, he could use her to highlight the beauty of other girls.

Yun Yi couldn't bear to watch it anymore and tried to stop them, but he was beaten up by the hooligans and almost died.

And after that?
Afterwards, the blind mother became seriously ill and was about to die. Before she died, she gave Yun Yi and her own daughter a poison called "Tongxin Gu". From then on, the two shared life and death together.

As a mother, she only wants to find a support for her daughter before she dies, but she never thinks about whether her daughter needs this support.

The identity of "Ugly Girl" was just a cover for Song Xinci to deliberately pretend to be ugly. Her purpose was to get close to her biological mother who lived in Yanliudi, to feel the mother-daughter love, and to take care of her in her old age and see her to the end of her life.

This is a heart-refining game. Once Song Xinci survives her mother's death, she will no longer have any attachment to the world and will achieve the state of "Supreme Forgetfulness." This will bring her one step closer to ascending to immortality!
Unfortunately, things went against their wishes. The Tongxin Gu forcibly bound Song Xinci and Yun Yi together. They were not husband and wife, but they were better than husband and wife.

As one of the four most deadly poisons in the world of cultivation, once one is infected with the Heart-to-Heart Gu, the only way to be free is to ascend to become an immortal.

From then on, the two birds, whose destinies were originally different, were forcibly tied together by an invisible thread. The more they struggled, the tighter the bond became.

The two joined forces to unify the Demon Sect and pacify the righteous path, and experienced many life and death difficulties. But it seems that they never had true love. They were comrades and friends, but not lovers.

Yun Yi felt that he loved Song Xinci, but her ambition was too big. In her heart, there was only the desire to become an immortal and the ambition to conquer the world, and there was no room for any love between men and women.

Finally, that day came, Yun Yi fell off a cliff and died, and the other person was poisoned.

At that time, Song Xinci was only one step away from ascending to heaven. Her fame was known throughout the Three Realms, and countless young talents fell at her feet.

But Yun Yi will never forget the astonishment in Song Xinci's eyes when he fell from the Juetian Cliff, and the panic of losing everything.

You know very well that you are high and mighty, playing around in the world, and ascending to immortality is just around the corner.

You know very well that I am just a helper in your journey to immortality and there is no way I would betray you.

But you will never know what a husband and wife is, what it means to be someone who truly lives and dies together.

……

Yun Yi looked at Song Xinci's extremely ugly appearance, but couldn't help but reach out and gently stroke her cheek.

Song Xinci was so surprised that she forgot to dodge for a moment. She felt the scorching heat of the man's palm, and she didn't understand why his eyes, looking at her, seemed to contain both deep affection and hidden hatred.

Does he know me?

The next moment, Yun Yi was heard praising softly: "It's really ugly."

Song Xinci was so enraged that she wanted to pierce the hateful man's heart with a dagger. However, Yun Yi had anticipated this and, with his other hand firmly grasping the dagger, he snatched it from her hand and threw it aside.

Just as the two were about to fight, the blind woman heard the noise and asked, "Ugly girl, is the benefactor still alive?"

Song Xinci glared at Yun Yi fiercely and said with resentment, "He's not dead. He's lucky."

"Then why don't you take me to thank the Lord!"

Yun Yi stood up, brushed off the dust on his clothes, and said casually, "It's just a small favor, no need to thank me. Besides, it was my fault for not knowing my own limitations and getting into trouble that almost got me hurt."

Song Xinci looked at him like this, feeling irritated for some reason. She had clearly come to the mortal world to cultivate her mind and had gone through many trials, so she shouldn't be feeling this way.

The woman exclaimed in surprise, "It's good that my benefactor is not dead, it's good that he is not dead!"

As she spoke, she staggered towards him. Seeing this, Song Xinci hurried to help her, but Yun Yi didn't dare to get too close to her.

I was afraid that she would put the love poison on me again.

At this moment, Yun Yi really wanted to turn around and leave, but he had lived two lives now. Although he had no cultivation at this moment, his keen perception from his previous life seemed to still be there.

He sensed a lot of murderous intent lurking in the shadows; these people were naturally targeting Song Xinci. The ruffians just now were just a trivial probing; the real danger lay elsewhere.

A genius of the Demon Sect sealed his cultivation and returned to the mortal world to overcome his inner demons. At this time, countless people wanted to find Song Xinci and give her a fatal blow.

Although she disguised herself as a ugly girl and hid her real name, those people had been searching for her for many days and probably had a clue, so they all came to this nameless town.

Yun Yi had a premonition that if he ran away at this moment, he would most likely be killed by that group of people.

If you think about it carefully, following the mother and son is the safest approach, because in the previous life, Yun Yi and Song Xinci left the nameless town alive.

But in this case, you must always be on guard against the Tongxin Gu to avoid repeating the same mistakes.

(End of this chapter)