[Ensemble cast + xianxia] A lively, spirited young woman meets a shy hundred-year-old girl who looks icy on the outside but is fun at heart.
Dragon Ling, a cultivation failure, is bullied by her fellow sect member Long Xi, an illegitimate daughter of the second branch of the Long family. By chance, she falls into a hidden barrier and lands in an icy pool, accidentally breaking the seal beneath her.
The ice shatters, and a stunning woman with a cool, beautiful face emerges from beneath the water. After staring at each other for a moment, the woman reaches out to her. “Give me a hand.” Frost escapes her lips as they part.
Once she has pulled the woman ashore, Long Ling gets a good look at her face and is stunned… She has released Shen Wu, the genius girl whose story appears in the appendix to the sect’s biographical records, along with a warning not to follow her example.
But hadn’t Shen Wu died a hundred years ago after rushing into ascension, going mad during her tribulation, and failing it?
She had even become the sect’s cautionary tale: don’t end up like her.
After hearing this, Shen Wu curls her lips in a cold smile. “It’s a shame my junior brother didn’t become a storyteller.”
Shen Wu says, “You freed me. You may ask for one thing.”
Long Ling, who is determined to shed her reputation as a cultivation failure, asks, “Will you be my bodyguard?”
Her cultivation may be poor, but she can always find someone to help her.
Shen Wu refuses without a second thought. “No.”
Long Ling asks, “Why not?”
Shen Wu says, “It’s better to teach someone to fish than to give them a fish.”
She refuses because she still has unfinished business, and it concerns a battle that has been raging for more than ten thousand years.
Come on, come on, come on!