Lily Qin paced her throne room like a caged predator, immortal aura crackling with barely contained fury. The aftermath of her failed sword strike had left cracks in the palace walls that even divine qi couldn't fully repair—testament to just how thoroughly Tianlong's words had shattered her composure.

"How dare he..." she whispered, her voice trembling with equal parts rage and something that felt dangerously close to heartbreak. "How DARE he speak such lies!"

Her personal aide, Xiao Yin, entered cautiously, her delicate immortal features pale with concern. "Princess? The Domain Masters have issued a summons regarding the realm violation—"

"LIES!" Lily screamed, whirling to face the girl with eyes blazing like twin suns. "Every vile word from his mouth was a LIE!"

Xiao Yin flinched, pressing herself against the doorframe. "Princess, I... I don't understand—"

"Spread for every sect elder?" Lily's laugh was bitter, hysterical. "Moaned like a cheap whore? On my knees for promises of power?" Each accusation spilled from her lips like poison she was forcing herself to taste. "That bastard... that BASTARD dares to paint me as some common slut when he was my FIRST!"

The aide's eyes widened in shock. In all her centuries of service, she had never seen the composed Princess Lily so... unhinged.

"My lady," Xiao Yin ventured carefully, "perhaps you should sit—"

"Sit?" Lily spun away, her perfect features twisted with anguish. "How can I sit when he's down there telling the entire realm that I... that I..." Her voice caught, and for a moment the immortal princess looked like nothing more than a heartbroken woman. "He was my first man, Xiao Yin. My ONLY man."

"I... I know, Princess," the aide whispered. "Your purity was legendary even before your descent. The Azure Lotus Dynasty chose you for the infiltration mission precisely because you were untouched, uncorrupted—"

"And I gave it to him!" Lily's voice cracked like a whip. "I, who had turned away princes and immortal lords for centuries, who had preserved my virtue as sacred... I gave my maidenhead to a MORTAL!" She pressed her hands to her temples, as if trying to contain the storm raging in her mind. "And this is how he repays that gift? By calling me a whore?"

Xiao Yin approached slowly, hands raised in a calming gesture. "Princess, surely he doesn't know the truth. How could a mortal understand what you sacrificed for him?"

"Sacrificed?" Lily laughed bitterly. "I didn't sacrifice anything, you fool. I CHOSE him. Every night I lay in his arms, every gasp he drew from my lips, every time I opened my legs for him alone—it was REAL!" She whirled to face her aide, tears of pure rage streaming down her perfect cheeks. "I was a virgin princess who had never even been kissed, and I gave him EVERYTHING!"

The aide swallowed hard. "But the mission—"

"The mission required infiltration, not defloration!" Lily snarled. "I could have played the part without ever sharing his bed. Could have manipulated him with promises and politics. But no... no, I chose to feel his hands on my untouched skin."

She collapsed into her throne, head in her hands, voice dropping to a broken whisper. "And he calls me loose. Says I was stretched out by other men when he was the ONLY one to ever... to ever be inside me."

Xiao Yin's face softened with sympathy. "Princess, perhaps what if he got currupted by someone like a bad company?"

Lily's eyes suddenly blazed as a new realization struck her, cutting through her anguish like a blade. The image of Tianlong surrounded by those three women flashed in her mind—their intimate positioning, the way they clung to him, the obvious bond between them.

"Those three bitches," she snarled, her voice dripping with venom.

"Princess!" Xiao Yin gasped, rushing forward to cover Lily's mouth with her delicate hands. "What are you saying? You shouldn't use such crude words—"

Lily shoved her aide away, eyes wild with newfound fury. "I see it now," she whispered, her voice gaining strength as the pieces fell into place. "So they are the ones who corrupted him."

She rose from her throne, pacing again with renewed agitation. "Don't you understand, Xiao Yin? When I left that realm, I made sure to leave him to die with old age. The mortal body I inhabited was failing, corroding—I had to ascend or perish. I thought... I thought our love story would end there, beautifully tragic but finite."

Her hands clenched into fists. "I even destroyed that mortal shell completely, reformed myself entirely just to remove every trace of him from my being. I wanted to let him live in my memory like a perfect, untainted story."

"But Princess," Xiao Yin said softly, "if you cared for him so much, why—"

"Because love was never meant to be eternal!" Lily snapped. "I am immortal, he was mortal. I thought time would heal both our hearts, that he would find peace in his final years while I preserved what we had as something pure."

She laughed bitterly, gesturing toward the scrying window that still showed traces of the lower realm. "But look at him now! He's alive, ascended to Great Vehicle realm, preparing for his own ascension. Don't you see? He did all of this to meet with me again."

Xiao Yin frowned. "How can you be certain?"

"Because there was no one else beside him who truly mattered," Lily said with absolute conviction. "I know that man better than he knows himself. The only things that could motivate him to such heights would be either a burning desire for revenge against me... or an overwhelming need to be reunited with me."

Her expression softened momentarily. "No one has ever loved him more than I did. But in his journey to power, those three sluts corrupted him! They made him vulgar, taught him to use such crude words against the woman he once worshipped!"

She whirled to face her aide, tears of rage and betrayal streaming down her face. "They turned my pure-hearted emperor into a foul-mouthed beast who would call his first love a whore!"

Before Xiao Yin could respond, the air in the chamber suddenly grew heavy, pressing down with the weight of cosmic authority. A scroll materialized in the air, bearing the seal of the Domain Masters—the immortal governors who maintained order across the Upper Realm.

Lily's face went pale as she read the glowing decree. Her hands trembled as the words sank in.

"What?" she breathed, disbelief coloring her voice. "This... this can't be..."

Xiao Yin leaned closer, her own face draining of color as she read over her mistress's shoulder. "Princess, the Domain Masters have issued a power suppression decree. For violating inter-realm non-interference laws by attacking the lower realm directly, you're to be sealed for—"

"Six months," Lily finished, her voice hollow with shock. "My cultivation sealed, my abilities bound, my very essence locked away for an entire six months."

Panic flashed in her immortal eyes as she felt the first tendrils of the sealing formation beginning to take hold. "No! Not now! Not when that bastard is about to—"

"Princess!" Xiao Yin interrupted urgently, "if you're going to act, it has to be now!"

Lily's mind raced with desperate calculation. She could feel her power beginning to ebb as the Domain Masters' decree took effect. In moments, she would be helpless, unable to influence events in the lower realm.

"Quickly!" she gasped, pouring what remained of her unbound qi into a communication talisman. "Send a message to the Immortal Sect immediately! Tell them that man—Zhao Tianlong—is coming to steal the Draconic Spiritual Vine!"

Her fingers moved with frantic speed as she inscribed the message. "Create conflict between them! Make them fight! And tell that sect master..." Her eyes blazed with malicious desperation. "Tell him that if he kills those three women—those corrupting bitches who poisoned my emperor's heart—he will be rewarded with a high-grade jade artifact from the Upper Realm itself!"

"Princess, you can't—" Xiao Yin began, but it was too late.

The sealing formation completed its work with a sound like crystalline chimes. Lily's body began to dissolve into motes of golden light, her form becoming translucent as her consciousness was pulled into the punishment dimension.

"Those three whores," she whispered as her voice began to fade, "they stole my pure-hearted emperor and turned him into a monster. But I'll make them pay... even if I have to wait six months to do it..."

The last thing Xiao Yin saw was her mistress's eyes—burning with a fury that promised unspeakable vengeance—before the Princess of the Azure Lotus Dynasty vanished entirely, sealed away by powers beyond even her immortal strength.

In the sudden silence of the empty throne room, only one thing remained: a communication talisman glowing with deadly intent, already racing toward the lower realm with its poisonous message.

'I-I...' The voice of the aide trembled as she swiftly sprinted, her eyes widened with clear fear—not from the princess but from her soon-to-be fiancé, who had hired her to keep an eye on the princess to ensure she never got involved with the lower realm ever again. 'I-I need to tell Master Gu about all of this!'

As the place became empty and hollow with everyone suddenly gone, the space itself trembled, revealing a small orb hovering made of energy that seemed to have been spying on the events that transpired.

It slowly materialized into a glowing spirit that looked exactly like Lily Quin, though part of her had fragmented when she tried to ascend.

'Emperor?' The spirit murmured, looking toward the gap within the fragmented dimension, heading toward the lower realm from which the weapon was sought.

The gap was slowly closing but still gave space for the confused spirit to finally find a piece that might answer her questions about her identity. 'Was he the man I loved?'

To find the answer to this fragment with no memories, the spirit descended into the lower realm.

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