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Up to Chapter 120 (End of Season 3)
This is a really badly written summary I made in like 10 mins of the plot so far for those who have read it and forgot and doesn’t want to re-read everything to remember.
Born into a martial arts novel and reincarted as Cheon Rihwa from birth, she tries to do everything to not die as she is written in the novel to be the evil daughter. The original novel says that she will die from the main character and sect heir, Ak WooRyeon. Born as the only daughter of the infamous Demonic sect leader, Cheon Ma, she tries her best to help her sect and family to the best of her abilities!
Characters
Cheon Ma: the Father and leader of the Demonic sect, greatly cherishes his daughter as he never had any close relationship due to the tradition of Demonic sect leaders stating that they cannot have any strong emotions that will allow their demonic qi take over when they get emotional and kill everyone. He greatly trusts Rihwa from a young age as she is a born genius in his eyes (real reason is because she reincarnated).
Ak WooRyeon: he was kidnapped from a young age after Cheon Ma killed his parents and took him as sect heir as it’s tradition to adopt kids to become next sect leader. He wanted revenge but after meeting Rihwa, is priority shifted to protecting her at all cost, even if that meant he had to give up on his revenge.
The truth is, Cheon Ma did not kill his parents, but his grandfather, the leader of the martial alliance and (previously) the secret blood sect leader that killed Ryeon's parents for stealing a precious blood sect book while escapting the sect. Cheon Ma was childhood/orphan friends with Ryeon's dad and killed him as a request from him but was seen by the young Ryeon and that's why he hated him. Before dying, Ryeon's dad handed the Blood Sect book and told him to keep it safe.
Zero: an Imoogi that imprinted on Rihwa when she got trapped in the maze within the isolation training caves, and he helped her get out and ever since followed her around but Rihwa views him as a younger brother. He hates Ryeon and views him as a love rival. After the 10 year time skip he feels horrible for causing Rihwa to fall into a coma and Ryeon to be kidnapped. He has now matured and accepts whatever conclusion Rihwa and Ryeon will be and basically will be Rihwa's suborbinate forever with a one-sided love.
Throughout the story, character relations develop towards Rihwa while she was a kid. Many events in the story tries to frame the Demonic sect against the Martial Alliance (the Just Faction) but was the doing of the Blood Sect and their leader in order to kidnap/force Ryeon back into their sect. Rihwa is always one step behind the Blood Sect leader's plans and eventually Rihwa, Zero, Ryeon, and the Demonic sect fell into their plans. Zero, who held great contempt for Ryeon because he was jealous that Rihwa treated Ryeon more romantic than him, was hyponotized to bring back the secret Blood Sect book from the Demonic sect as a deal to get rid of Ryeon. The plan suceeded, and the Blood sect leader put Rihwa in an illusion spell and she laid comatized for 10 years dreaming about her (presumed to be) previous life with discreptancies of her murim life glitching in here and there.
She eventually wakes up and finds out that the Demonic sect and the remaining people of the just faction is now allied against the blood sect, whom has taken over the martial alliance. For the past 10 years, Cheon Ma was obviously furious but didn't attack the blood sect (and commanded the just faction to remain still too) for fear that leaving the demonic sect would let Rihwa in danger.
Rihwa's first plan of action is to save Ryeon. He has continually been brainwashed to forget about his past and his memories only goes as far back to when his grandfather (blood sect leader) saved him from the Demonic sect. The real goal of the blood sect leader is to find a suitable blood-related vessel to transfer his mind into and take over the body. Rihwa and the kids from the 5 murim families infiltrate the blood sect palace as a dance troupe in order to save Ryeon and defeat the blood sect . Rihwa manages to find out the true plan of the blood sect leader and is planning to save Ryeon by kidnapping him. However, it doesn't suceed but Ryeon's body is slowly starting to remember her and his past, and gets suspicious about the Blood sect's leader.