Mysterious Lotus Casebook: A Different Fate for the Blooming Lotus, Never Letting Li Xiangyi Down

[Follows the original | Rewritten ending | Original female lead | Reunion after ten years] Shen Zhishu x Li Xiangyi At ten years old, Shen Zhishu loses her family to disaster and, left alone, happens upon the spirited Li Xiangyi. She stays by his side as his younger sister, practicing swordplay beneath the moon, learning the Yangzhou Slow together, and defending the Four Gu Sect, with nothing in her heart but admiration for her older brother. After the battle in the East Sea, his fame falls overnight, and Li Xiangyi vanishes from the world. After ten years wandering the martial world, she meets Li Lianhua again, now a traveling doctor who has grown indifferent to worldly affairs. One strange unsolved case after another brings them together, and as they spend their days and nights side by side, her old admiration slowly deepens into love. Everyone accepts that his story is destined to end, but she refuses to surrender to fate, determined to defy heaven and protect him. Though the lotus blooms on a different path, she vows that in this life, she will not fail Xiangyi. Li Lianhua has suffered so much. I hope someone can stay by his side. (The characters and world are based on the television series Mysterious Lotus Casebook. This is an original rewrite fanfiction, and may lean a little toward everyday life. For entertainment by fans only.)