(An overworked intern, half-dead most of the time. Recently got a new idea and plans a major revision over winter break.)
[Nontraditional cultivation fantasy, female lead with no romance, the main cast isn’t a reverse harem, planning to write an ensemble story]
Content warning: The female lead has a very bad temper and a peculiar personality. If you don’t like that, move on.
After a trip to a secret realm, Hu Ling’s senior brothers, senior sisters, and master all started acting strange:
Her stingy master was in a hurry to push the four siblings to cultivate hard, searching everywhere for protective magical treasures for them;
Her gentle-looking eldest senior brother devoted himself to taking his three junior sisters around to kill monsters and level up, figuring they might as well seek opportunities and grow stronger instead of lounging around the sect, then rise to the top of the world;
Her easygoing, friendly second senior sister kicked away the spirit beast she’d been carefully raising. She wouldn’t keep something that betrayed its master;
Her cool and reserved third senior sister started picking fights with the heavens, the earth, and even the air. Someone said she wasn’t worthy of her fickle scumbag fiancé? Just watch her make him regret it!
Only much later did Hu Ling learn that her stingy master had the “dream visions reveal heavenly secrets” plot, her eldest senior brother had the “arrogant dragon” plot, her second senior sister had the “corrupted villain” plot, and her third senior sister had the “reborn revenge” plot.
And she herself had no plot at all. She was just a passerby who crossed paths with the protagonists and their whole world…
References: Seven Slips from the Bookbag of the Clouds, Supreme Book of the Three Caverns’ Divine Incantations, The Perfected One’s Revelations, Records of Immortals Gathered at Yongcheng, Gui Cang, The Complete Compendium of the Daoist Tradition, The Sword Classic of Primordial Unity, and Notes on the Character of the Streams and Mountains.
