A White Lotus Demands a Death Match

When the delicate, perpetually weeping 'white lotus' Bao Yaolan is publicly humiliated and dumped by the Crown Prince at the Altar of Ascendance, she finally snaps out of her plot-mandated daze. Realizing she is trapped in a tragic romance, Yaolan immediately executes an ancient identity-swap array with a passing, heavily armored sect executioner. Free from her doomed destiny, she retreats to the gloomy disciplinary pavilion to pursue her true passion: researching highly illegal, explosive magical formations. Unfortunately, her new persona's cold, ruthless competence accidentally attracts a horde of masochistic admirers. Even worse, Yaolan's brain has completely deleted the concept of romance. When the regretful Crown Prince offers her a thousand-year jade hairpin, she assumes it's a concealed weapon and beats him senseless. When Lord Shenjue, a Supreme Deity of the Upper Realm, descends in a shower of golden light just to court her, she excitedly interprets his romantic display as a legendary boss-fight challenge. With a floating, array-eating carp as her only confidant and a Supreme Deity constantly trying to woo her while dodging explosions, can Yaolan complete the ultimate World-Severing Formation before the plot forces her back into a romance?