Ye Qingtang

The main character and female protagonist of the story.

She was abandoned as a baby in the First Continent and picked up by Ye Ling and his wife. Having just lost their own baby, they adopted Ye Qingtang and raised her as their own. This was kept a secret and only during her second chance at life did Ye Ling reveal to her that she was not truly his child. Her parentage, however, was unknown and the only clue was a unique jade pendant that came together with her as a baby.

Past Life
Before she was reborn, she was timid and weak-willed, suffering from inferiority complex due to a large mark on her face that marred her features. She was born with a superior grade spirit root but it was stolen and cruelly dug out from her body by her cousin Ye You and her grandfather, the Grand Elder of the Ye Clan.

Due to the Heart of the Demon Emperor in her, she was constantly on the run from people after the heart. Naive and weak, she was deceived countless times by people eyeing her heart, indirectly causing the few loved ones who truly cared for her to die protecting her, much to her regret and heartbreak. To increase her chances of surviving, she desperately learned as many skills as she could, like pill refining, weapon forging and the art of disguise.

Despite her lack of a spirit root, she managed to reach the Saint Venerable level but eventually lost her life after being besieged by Ye You and her cronies on Lingyun Cliff. To prevent them from obtaining the Heart of the Demon Emperor, she crushed the heart by her own hand in her dying moments.

Moments after her death, a mysterious man appeared and used his powers to send her back to her youth.

Personality
After removing the mark on her face, Ye Qingtang is described as an extraordinary beauty with exquisite features.

Contrary to her naivety in her previous life, she has developed a strong, observant, sly and quick-witted personality after experiencing so much hardship. She has her own set of principles and has a firm belief that she is in control of her own destiny and will not yield to so-called fate.

Having lived her past life constantly on the run, she had no time for romance and thus is very dense and slow on the uptake when it comes to romance. Instinctively, she does not reject Ling Yan’s advances and recognizes that it does not give her a sense of discomfort, but does not truly understand what that implies. She is only aware that if it had been other men, she would not have reacted the same way. It is implied that she sees Ling Yan in a different light from other people and that his presence gives her a sense of security.