This one gets you with the price tag on every miracle. Ji Tanyin doesn't get handed godhood, she builds it: a mortal Yanshi bolting together the Heaven and Earth Mechanism until the Three Realms have to call her divine. Then the demons come, the God's Heart gets torn out to forge the God's Hand, the demons burn, and the artifact goes missing in the mortal world anyway. So the show hands you a woman who is, functionally, an engineer, and asks what happens when the thing she built to save everyone outlives the part of her that could feel about it. The romance is the whole load-bearing wall here, not decoration, which means every reunion lands on a heart that isn't in her chest anymore. Fourteen episodes of gears, blood, and a goddess doing math on what she's willing to lose.
A mortal woman with an extraordinary gift for divine engineering rises to godhood, constructing the very mechanism that keeps the Three Realms in balance. When demons ravage the celestial world, she sacrifices her own heart to forge a weapon powerful enough to destroy them all. The victory comes at a terrible cost: the weapon vanishes into the human realm, the cosmic machinery grinds to a halt, and she loses her immortality. Now an ordinary girl, she walks the earth searching for what was lost. Along the way she strikes back against the High Priest Youhu, finds a once-in-a-lifetime love, and turns her mechanical skill against every opponent in her path. The result is a fantasy action romance with plenty of comedy mixed in.
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