Shen Qingci: one name, two lives weighed down by misery.
On Blue Star, she was a puppet imprisoned by her own family in the shadow of her deceased younger sister, "Shen Ci." With every desperate day spent playing her part, her sunny, genuine nature froze bit by bit. After dying and transmigrating into another body, she carried a "script" into the vast world of immortality cultivation. She had thought being reborn was her chance to escape the cage, only to discover that an even deadlier shackle had already descended. In this world, sharing the exact same name as a "female supporting character in a book" had become a hook, gnawing at her like a parasite and quietly eroding her will! An invisible force of rules twisted her perceptions and lured her toward the path of that indistinct, doomed "Shen Qingci" from the book. If she failed to awaken, she would ultimately become a puppet on strings, silently swallowed by the torrent of the plot!
In the Heart-Testing Illusion during the sect's disciple selection, screams from the past and twisted love and hate surged toward her. Yet the moment she saw through the illusion, they ignited an unyielding flame deep within her soul!
"I am not Shen Ci's shadow, nor am I a puppet in a book! I am Shen Qingci! The one and only Shen Qingci!"
Her radiant heart sword shattered the shackles of the substitute and burned away the web of rules!
"I sever the past and face the sword toward the light. I leave dusk behind and forge ahead!" This "leaving dusk behind" was no name change, but a stirring declaration: she would live on through death and bid farewell to every shackle!
"A puppet? A shadow? What a joke! I'll walk my own path! I'll write my own fate! Even if the Heavenly Dao has set a trap, don't think you can shackle me again!"
But in the end, she discovered that nothing was as simple as she had imagined...
