Blurb：
After completing her mission to make Alexander Sterling the Grandmaster of Celestial Healing, Elara chose to stay in this world and become Alexander Sterling’s wife. For five hundred years, Alexander Sterling proved his devotion—defying the Celestial Realm’s Grand Princess and enduring nine divine lightning strikes to keep his vow of eternal love. When Elara mentioned missing her childhood lavender honey pudding, Alexander Sterling spent weeks mastering the recipe himself. Yet when their spirit companion Little Silver perished in the Shadow River and Alexander Sterling failed to respond in time, Elara activated the System to return to the real world. As the System confirmed her departure, Alexander Sterling appeared, clutching the Violet Soul Lotus he risked his cultivation to retrieve from the magic-free Ethereal Void. His head disciple Sage revealed Alexander Sterling’s sacrifice: nine days of climbing without magic, all to grant Elara their deepest wish—a child. But after hearing another woman’s breath during their communication spell, Elara’s heart is set on leaving. Discover if Alexander Sterling’s fierce love can heal their rift in this emotional tale of love, betrayal, and redemption.
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After Successfully Winning the Male Lead, I Stayed in This Novel World and Became Alexander Sterling’s Wife.??
He defied the Celestial Realm’s Grand Princess, enduring nine divine lightning strikes, all to keep his promise of being with me, and only me, forever.
Just because I once mentioned missing the lavender honey pudding from my childhood, he spent half a month learning to make it himself, just for me.
But five hundred years after Alexander Sterling became the Grandmaster of Celestial Healing, I decided to leave.
“System, I want to return to the real world.”
“Host, are you sure you want to abandon all your cultivation and return?”
The System’s mechanical voice was something I hadn’t heard in five hundred years.
I spoke firmly, “Yes, I want to leave.”
“Confirmed. Mission completion points have been converted to real-world currency. You have one week to say goodbye to this world.”
I nodded slightly, though a part of me still ached.
When I fell silent, the System vanished, leaving the forest quiet again.
I pointed at the shallow grave. “Bury it. There’s no hope left.”
“Madam Sterling, are you sure we shouldn’t wait for the Grandmaster? Perhaps… perhaps there’s still a chance?” my maid asked cautiously.
The next instant, golden light flashed as Alexander appeared before me, pulling me into his embrace.
The revered Grandmaster of Healing now held me tightly, his voice soft and pleading, afraid I was angry.
“My heart aches too, hearing about Little Silver.”
“I didn’t mean to be late. If you’re angry, hit me. Just don’t keep it bottled up, okay?”
Little Silver was our spirit companion, a silver-furred cat, our “child.”
Yesterday, Little Silver wandered into the Shadow River and lost its spirit.
The only one who could save her was Alexander Sterling, Grandmaster of Celestial Healing.
I had desperately used communication magic to reach Alexander.
But his reply was, “Elara, my love, wait a moment. I’m handling official business. I’ll be back soon.”
The next moment, I heard it—the faint, unmistakable sound of a woman’s labored breathing beside him.
I don’t belong to this world.
Back then, the System found me when I was destitute, offering points exchangeable for real-world dollars as temptation.
It brought me here with one mission, to ensure Alexander Sterling became the Grandmaster of Celestial Healing.
I wasn’t supposed to fall in love.
But Alexander was impossible not to love. An orphaned genius misunderstood by all.
I helped him climb step by step to the top. He, in turn, cherished me with tender care. Two lonely souls drew close, and we fell in love.
So when Alexander looked at me with those deer-like, luminous eyes, promising forever with just the two of us, begging me to stay in this world and marry him… I foolishly agreed.
I thought our happiness would last forever.
But now, I wanted to leave.
Seeing me bite my lip in prolonged silence,
Alexander held me tighter. “Elara, it’s my fault. I was delayed getting the Violet Soul Lotus.”
“With this lotus, we can finally have our own child.”
His head disciple, Sage, hearing this, presented the Violet Soul Lotus like a treasure.
“Master Elara, this lotus only grows in the Ethereal Void. No magic can be used there. The Grandmaster climbed for nine days and nights to get it.”
“Please don’t be angry. He came straight to you the moment he returned.”
“The Grandmaster said even if it cost him a thousand years of cultivation, it would be worth it just to see you smile.”
Yes, Alexander loved me so fiercely that everyone in the realm knew it.
He defied the Celestial Realm’s Grand Princess, enduring nine heavenly thunderbolts, all to keep his promise of being with only me forever.
Just because I mentioned missing my childhood’s lavender honey pudding, he spent half a month learning to make it himself.
After five hundred years of marriage without children, he searched through ancient texts, sacrificing his own cultivation, just to pluck the Violet Soul Lotus from the frozen Ethereal Void.
He loved me. He’d defy the world before abandoning me.
Yet now, my heart twisted in agony. I couldn’t love him anymore.
After the disciples left, Alexander gently kissed away my tears. “Elara, I’m sorry. I loved Little Silver too, but I really couldn’t get away…”
“Elara, my love, please. Your eyes are swollen. Don’t cry anymore, okay?”
I looked into his eyes. They were still so clear.
His kisses were still so passionate.
He was still so gentle, so patient.
He still coaxed me, indulged me, loved me, just like before.
So how had everything changed?
He seemed shy under my gaze and leaned in to kiss my lips.
I caught the sweet floral scent of violets. My heart clenched violently, a wave of nausea rising. I turned my head away. “Alexander, I’m so tired. Really.”
Alexander swept me into his arms and flew us back to our palace. “Elara, don’t worry about anything. Just rest. You’ll feel better after you sleep.”
When I woke, Alexander was gone.
I knew exactly where he had gone.
That woman, Violet. This was the third time she’d “accidentally” left evidence for me to find.
First, a lipstick stain on his collar. Then, a jade pendant that wasn’t mine. Now, this clinging violet perfume.
My heart felt numb, too broken to ache any further.
Years ago, a plague had swept through a village. Alexander saved his head disciple, Sage, and Sage’s younger sister, Violet.
Violet had knelt outside our sect gates for three days and nights, begging Alexander to take her as his disciple. He never broke his rule for her.
I thought she would never be an exception to him.
But Alexander, who usually avoided such attachments, personally found her a house in the city and provided her with money.
Afraid I’d misunderstand, he had explained, “Violet has no one, Elara. If you were in my place, you’d do the same, wouldn’t you?”
After that, he never mentioned her name again.
Only, whenever he went down the mountain, supplies would be sent to Violet under Sage’s name. It seemed like just another small kindness among countless others.
But I knew. What Alexander gave her was far more than just material things.
He would carefully select unique trinkets, just to make her smile.
Every day, he’d send messages via celestial messenger cranes, whispering words I never heard to soothe her.
Even after obtaining the Violet Soul Lotus, he hadn’t come straight home. Hehad gone to Violet, spending the night to ease their longing.
Their passion had burned so fiercely that he couldn’t pull himself away, couldn’t return in time, missing the last chance to save Little Silver.
In his heart, I had become less important than Violet. My “child” naturally mattered less than she did.
All those promises, that profound love, felt tainted now. No longer unique. His heart made room for another.
“Madam… the Grandmaster insisted you remember to take your medicine.”
My maid’s voice pulled me from my thoughts. I looked at the bowl in her hand, and tears instantly fell. “Just leave it there.”
I was just a mortal, brought here by the System. A hundred years was a full lifetime to me, but to Alexander, it was a fleeting moment.
To let me stay with him forever, he brewed this elixir for me every month using three drops of blood from his own heart to extend my life.
I had thought he didn’t care anymore.
I had thought he was no longer willing to endure that pain for me.
He still loved me. In his way, what he did for me was real.
So why? Why had he fallen for someone else behind my back?
That night, just as I thought Alexander wouldn’t return, strong arms suddenly wrapped around me. I tried to pull away.
He buried his face against my shoulder. “Elara, don’t move. Just let me hold you.”
My body went stiff. The man behind me soon fell into the deep, even breathing of sleep.
He was utterly exhausted, asleep so quickly.
They must have been together for a long time tonight.
The next morning, Alexander checked my pulse as he always did.
His frown deepened. He studied me closely. My heart pounded. Had he discovered my plans to leave?
I hadn’t drunk his heart’s blood elixir for months.
Before, it was because I couldn’t bear to see him hurt himself. Now, I truly had no need for it.
Without the elixir, my body had grown weak. The recent emotional turmoil made even breath feel like a struggle.
Finally, he spoke. “Elara, your energy is unstable. Have you not been resting properly?”
“Look, you even have a few white hairs here… If something is troubling you, don’t keep it bottled up. You said everyone needs someone to listen sometimes.”
Someone to listen. So Alexander remembered that term I’d brought from my world.
But he spent his nights with Violet now. Who did I have left to talk to?
I simply shook my head. “Alexander, Little Silver is gone. My heart is just… broken.”
Alexander ruffled my hair, smiling affectionately. “Silly, it was just a spirit companion. How could you grieve for so long?”
So Little Silver was just a spirit companion to him.
I looked into his eyes, memories flooding back until I felt dizzy.
Years ago, he’d ruffled my hair exactly like that when he brought Little Silver home.
After years of failing to conceive, I’d cried silently beneath the covers, longing for a child.
When Alexander saw me, his eyes had reddened too.
“Elara, we are immortals. Whether we have children matters little.”
“If you want a child, I’ll go to Spirit Song Mountain and find a spirit companion to be ours.”
“Elara, as long as it makes you happy, I’d do anything for you.”
When Alexander returned from Spirit Song Mountain covered in wounds, the disciples whispered. They said their stern Grandmaster was truly wrapped around his wife’s finger.
Alexander wasn’t angry. Instead, he proudly repeated their words to me.
He said, “Elara, the disciples say I love you so much I’ve lost myself. They don’t understand.”
“Before you, my mind held only the healing arts. But now, for you, I’d give it all up, just to live this life with you.”
“‘What is love? It makes both life and death seem insignificant.'”
Seeing me lost in thought, Alexander pinched my cheek, pulling me back to the present.
“Elara, I know you want a child. Once you’re stronger, after taking the Violet Soul Lotus, we’ll have our own child.”
But Alexander, we can never have our own child now.
We can never have a future together.
I forced a strained smile. “Alexander, can you stay with me today?”
Alexander refused without hesitation. “Elara, I have official duties to attend to at the sect today.”
Throughout our marriage, I’d always prioritized his sect responsibilities. I’d never asked this of him before.
This first time I asked, he dismissed me without a second thought.
Were they truly sect duties, or was he desperate to see the woman who’d occupied his thoughts all night?
I fell silent. Only four days remained before I would leave this world.
I had loved him for centuries. Before leaving, I just wanted to share one more meal, or simply be quietly together one last time.
My eyes burned. I shook my head, clinging tightly to his sleeve, unwilling to let go.
Alexander kissed my forehead.
Yet in the next moment, he gently pried my fingers away. “Be good. I’ll return soon.”
He murmured a few more soothing words, then turned and walked away without looking back.
His figure vanished from sight, leaving me alone with a sudden, hollow ache.
I released a messenger crane.
I suddenly wanted to see the woman who had captivated Alexander so completely.
Driven by a painful curiosity, I followed him.
In a secluded pavilion, Alexander sat across from Violet.
She looked like a fairy maiden from an ancient painting, unforgettable at first sight.
Her beauty was pure and ethereal, untouched by worldly cares—completely different from my ordinary appearance.
Perhaps Alexander had simply grown tired of me. He never did enjoy monotony.
Alexander took a small box from his robe and offered it to Violet. “This is a Life-Saving Elixir I prepared for you. In dire peril, it can preserve your life.”
My heart clenched violently. Memories surfaced—years ago, Alexander had sacrificed half his cultivation to create such an elixir for me.
I had believed it was his unique way of loving me.
Now, the same gesture was meant to please another woman.
I instinctively touched my cheek. I wasn’t one to cry easily, but now the tears came uncontrollably now.
Pain and loss washed over me like a tide.
Just then, Alexander suddenly turned and looked directly towards where I stood hidden, his eyes locking with mine!
I flinched, pressing myself against the cold stone behind me, my heart hammering against my ribs. Thankfully, Alexander didn’t spot me.
But then, a bitter laugh escaped me. Why was I the one hiding?
I wasn’t the faithless one. I wasn’t the one who should feel shame.
I turned and walked away, my feet carrying me without conscious thought until I found myself at Whispering Vale.
This was where it all began.
Back then, Alexander was just an apprentice to the previous Grandmaster of Healing, Master Rowan.
But orphaned young, Alexander didn’t know how to connect. He was an outcast, met with cold shoulders and whispered scorn from the other disciples.
Even Master Rowan eventually lost patience. When Alexander pursued new healing techniques, Rowan accused him of wasting his time.
So, the thankless chore of gathering herbs in Whispering Vale fell to Alexander.
But he accepted it without complaint.
I remembered it clearly. One day, while collecting herbs one day, a venomous snake bit him, its paralyzing venom freezing him in place.
I was so new to this world then, so panicked, that I acted on instinct, sucking the poison from the wound.
By some “beginner’s luck,” I survived unharmed.
Later, when we married, we exchanged our vows of “forever, just us two” right here in this vale.
Alexander had buried a sealed jar beside an ancient tree on the hillside. He told me we’d open it together in five hundred years.
I teased him, “So sure we’ll still be together in five hundred years?”
“We will be,” Alexander had stated, his voice leaving no room for doubt.
He sealed the jar with two temporal locks, woven with his own magic. “Elara, I never imagined sharing my life with anyone. But with you, I find I want you by my side every single day.”
“Elara, in five hundred years, when we open this, inside will be my gift for you.”
“I hope you’ll still like it then.”
“Elara, I love you.”
Five hundred years had passed in a blur. Alexander saying those words felt like yesterday.
Yet now, on the very day marking those five centuries, everything was broken.
I was no longer the one he held closest.
I wanted to see if that promise was still there.
With a wave of my hand, I unearthed the jar from its resting place.
Suddenly, the ground gave way beneath my feet. My body tumbled, out of control, down the steep, rocky slope of the valley.
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