The Saintess Lives: I Must Rise from the Dead

[Shen Yunshu × Lu Juanbai: a gentle, patient senior brother and a blunt, slow-on-the-uptake junior sister]

[Jiang Congrong × Lu Yu'an: a cool, mature older woman and a devoted puppy of a younger partner]

Lu Juanbai is the strangest little junior sister in Baoyuan Sect. She can get things done and answer questions, but she has no understanding of joy, anger, sorrow, or happiness.

But no one ever holds that against her.

Shen Yunshu shields her from all malice. Lu Yu'an patiently explains things to her, bit by bit. Zuo Jiang and You Chuan noisily protect her, while even Jiang Congrong, who stumbled into their lives halfway through, is slowly learning how to be friends with a group of cultivators.

The six of them swear to stand together through every trial and face death together.

She thinks she’ll slowly and peacefully learn how to be human this way.

But the world gives her no chance. Things lurking in the shadows are closing in inch by inch, forcing her to face the mark of the “Saintess” on her body.

At last, she understands: sometimes, living means carrying on for those who are gone.

[Linked short stories · growth-oriented heroine · ensemble cast]