Seeking a Thousand Mountains with My Sword

[Strong female lead, slow burn, a touch of ensemble cast]

Fake aloof, genuinely mischievous master with a bad leg X a wooden-headed heroine who is emotionless and unfeeling. The heroine is an acting ace who loves playing the fool to catch the tiger, but early on she truly feels nothing and cares only about the Great Dao.

The supernaturally strong girl Song Shiyu discovers that her memories are blank. With a strange “mother,” secrets hidden in her body, and a village massacred, she clutches a blood-red jade pendant and follows an immortal to join Lingshan, seeking the truth.

How will a heartless, emotionless puppet girl carve out a place of her own in this vast world?

She presses on, and before long, she is no longer alone.

The cast of this story (tentative):

1. A master who seems like an aloof beauty but is actually mischievous, fiercely protective, and always up for a laugh: “Disciple, are you going to cause trouble again? How can you go without me!”

2. A dependable senior brother, part ray of sunshine, part mother hen: “Master! Mind your image! Junior sister, don’t spoil Master so much!”

3. A sweet-looking, scheming junior brother: “Miss Song, I-I don’t hurt that much. It’s fine, go help him. I can manage on my own.” (Lowers his eyes, pretending to be brave.)

4. A brilliant senior sister with a hidden past, a healer and a madwoman: “An incurable disease? Hehe, there’s no such thing as incurable when it’s in my hands!”

5. A cold-blooded, twisted, hands-on-obsessed sadist of a Demon Lord: “Shiyu, what a perfect creation! I am your [father]!”

And all the various factions in the immortal realm keep getting face-slapped left and right: “What is wrong with you people?! This isn’t how it was supposed to go!”

Song Shiyu herself: “I’m so delicate, sob.”

Later, demons and monsters run rampant, the facade of harmony is torn away, and the dark plan buried in the immortal realm is uncovered. Song Shiyu then raises her...