After Being Reborn, I Was Clung to by My Sweet-on-the-Outside, Dark-on-the-Inside Senior Brother

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Childhood sweethearts | Mutual pining across two lifetimes | Highly obsessive, love-brained male lead | Happy ending

[Beloved, radiant little sunshine heroine vs. Tsundere, sharp-tongued, foxlike black-bellied hero]

Jiang Nanzhi was the most pampered junior sister in the sect.

She got everything she wanted there and lived a carefree, comfortable life. Just as she thought she could stay happy forever, she died a terribly unjust death, falling off a cliff and being smashed to pieces.

The one who did it was none other than her childhood friend and senior brother, Xie Qinian.

When she opened her eyes again, Jiang Nanzhi had returned to the eve of her senior brothers and sisters setting out for their training.

She changed her clingy ways from her previous life and did everything she could to avoid her senior brother. Even catching a glimpse of him disgusted her.

Who would have thought that her senior brother, already burdened with countless tasks, would still keep pestering her?

When nightmares plagued her and she knocked over a candle, her senior brother handed her a magnolia scented with calming incense.

Xie Qinian: "Smell it. It'll calm you down."

...Why don't you guess who's giving you nightmares?

While she was diligently making pills, Xie Qinian came over again, his extremely conspicuous face covered in bruises. His dark, glossy eyes plainly said, "I'm hurt. Please treat me."

Jiang Nanzhi was speechless. "...The stuff in my hands is poison I'm making for you."

You know, poison? The kind that kills you.

After Jiang Nanzhi failed again and again to avoid Xie Qinian, the useless System showed up with a mission.

[Congratulations on being reborn. Here is your "Extend Your Life" mission.]

[Generation complete: Win over your senior brother, Xie Qinian.]

Jiang Nanzhi: ?

She hurriedly aborted a major revenge scheme.

She lowered her head and found her senior brother staring coldly at her and the dagger in her hand.

"Junior Sister," the boy said ominously, his smile never reaching his eyes. "What are you doing?"

Jiang Nanzhi: ...

What do you do when you die before your mission even gets started? QAQ

*

Jiang Nanzhi changed her strategy. To stay alive and save her fellow disciples, she had plenty of energy and tricks up her sleeve.

But something didn't feel right.

During a training expedition, she accidentally fell into an illusion and glimpsed the nightmare Xie Qinian feared most.

Blood, ruins, a devastated village, and... a pretty little boy curled up, biting anyone who came near.

She thought she'd be killed to keep the secret after exposing it. But instead of pain at her throat, she felt something warm.

"Can I keep it?"

Jiang Nanzhi: What? Who's keeping what?

Following Xie Qinian's gaze, she looked down and saw the bite mark he had left on her wrist in the illusion.

Oh, that? It's just a little scar. Sure.

Wait, no...

She looked up and saw delight and pleading in Xie Qinian's eyes.

Jiang Nanzhi: Senior Brother, are you...? 😦

What should she do when her target seems to have a hidden side?

*

After countless attempts with no progress at all, she gave up completely.

Xie Qinian clung to her every day, coaxing her into hugging him and bending down to kiss the corner of her mouth, asking for more.

With him this clingy, what else did she need to do to win him over?

Jiang Nanzhi: System, are you malfunctioning? If I don't succeed soon, will I still be able to extend my life?

[Host, why not try the final step...?]

Jiang Nanzhi fell silent. Jiang Nanzhi put it into practice.

But before her hand could touch Xie Qinian's sash, she met his dark, glossy eyes.

Jiang Nanzhi: "No, Senior Brother, hear me out... If I say I was worried you'd get heatstroke in the middle of the night, would you believe me?"

"Nanzhi..." As the world spun, he rolled over and pinned her beneath him. His waterfall of long hair spilled across her flushed cheeks. "Is there something you're curious about?"

"...Do you like it here, too?"

Jiang Nanzhi raised a hand to cover her eyes, now brimming with tears, and bit her lip, afraid to make a sound.

It's over. She'd really gotten herself caught up in this...

#Wasn't this supposed to be a mission to win him over? Why am I the one being won over?#

Reader's Guide ☀

1. Both leads are pure and inexperienced + happy ending + one-on-one romance.

2. The male lead is obsessed with his junior sister. In their previous life, he hurt the heroine because his body was being controlled, and the heroine had lost all hope and wanted them to die together. It was all a misunderstanding! The heroine will not be put through angst!

3. The main plot includes a few side-couple storylines, but there are no paired-up-for-the-sake-of-it romances. The second male and female leads share a deep bond, but it isn't romantic.

4. The male lead has a black-bellied, innocent-on-the-outside persona, but he hasn't done anything truly awful (though he really is obsessive and unwell).

5. The story's settings are [Sect - Training Expedition (a major arc) - Sect]. If you like sect-based cultivation stories, this may not be for you!

(P.S. If you do like sect-based cultivation stories, please check out my other upcoming book, QWQ.)

Theme: Courage helps people grow, and love helps them emerge from the shadows.