Beside You, Stood Your God

Charles Holt comes down from the mountain in poor clothes to propose to Nina Mckay, and she does not recognise what he is. He is a Grandmaster living among ordinary people, the earthly incarnation of an immortal born a thousand years ago, and the head of a mountain sect with power behind him. For a thousand years he loved Nina and went against the will of Heaven for her. He decided the time had come to marry her and to lay the world down as the bride price. What he had not accounted for was that Nina had changed. He had been supporting her from out of sight all that time, and she had come to want money and position. She looked at the penniless man in front of her, refused him coldly, and broke off the engagement.