Married First, Loved Later : A Flash Marriage with My Ex's 'Uncle' - Chapter 226: The Celebrity Halo

Li Chang'an is reincarnated into a Cultivation Immortality World, becoming a Loose Cultivator in a Marketplace after failing to be selected by an Immortal Sect.His talent is mediocre and his status is low. Just when he thought longevity was a hopeless dream, he awakens the [Daily Divination] system.[Today's Divination · Auspicious]: You go into the mountains to chop wood and unexpectedly discover a fox den. Inside the den, you find a Jade Scroll containing a “Talismanic Inheritance.”[Today's Divination · Inauspicious]: You are targeted by a Tribulation Cultivator who is trying to lure you out of the Marketplace.[Today's Divination · Greatly Auspicious]: In the Marketplace's trading area, you discover a “Profound Water Turtle” egg with a mutated bloodline. Its actual bloodline strength is comparable to an Earth Grade Spirit Beast, yet it is being sold as an ordinary Beast Egg.[Today's Divination · Greatly Inauspicious]: The Marketplace's Array Master colludes with the enemy, causing the Marketplace's Array to be broken. A Foundation Establishment Great Cultivator is about to slaughter his way into the Marketplace, and your life is in danger.

Xie Huaimin who had been jilted, unexpectedly came to the unfamiliar nation of Dong Qi and became Xie Zhaohua, the idiotic Fourth Miss of the Grand Tutor Xie’s family in Dong Qi. Ready to be flexible to her newfound circumstances, she strived to let herself adapt to life in a feudalistic society but her eccentric Second Brother, Xie Zhaoying, implicated her in a complicated web of intricacies. The Zhao family’s party which dominates the court administration, the refined and mysterious teacher Song Zijing from Xi Qi and also Prince Yan, Xiao Xuan, who is remotely far away, form a world full of perils and excitement. Miss Xie who is imbued with courage and insensitive yet pure, followed along with Xiao Xuan without second thoughts, throwing herself into the venture of revolution and love.

T/n: The title of the novel originated from a Chinese poem by Yan Jidao.

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He hated everything I was, but I searched for affection in every cruel glance he gave me.“There were so many things I wanted to say to you, but even writing them feels impossible. Because I know that if I were to put down the words I keep in my heart, you'd only say it's natural, after all, I’m just a stupid, self-centered person, like you often said.But I'm not. And that’s why I won’t bare my heart to someone who never truly knew me. Because... you wouldn’t trust the sincerity of a stranger. Right?But I did.You were the stranger whose sincerity I believed in.So I’m stepping away from being the person who embodies everything you hate—because I hate those things too.Maybe in another life, I’ll get to tell you who I really am.”

The sky was painted gray forever. The light of the sun was restrained. The darkness of the night was deeper than ever. At such a time, he belonged to a class people didn’t even recognize as ’human’. He was at the bottom of the social stratum, a slave. And when his only family was taken away from him... he no longer had a purpose in life. Yet, he clung to life because of his promise. And he set an impossible goal for himself, just so he’d have an excuse to live. When he finally reached a place he never expected to be, in pursuit of a purpose he expected to fail and die miserably trying to fulfill... he awoke to a night that would change his entire life. He was an insignificant fly, a mere speck in the destruction of the Empire. But he... survived. And, despite being a slave, he gained the blessing of a king. Or rather, the curse...