After Being Reborn, I Found My Traitor Senior Brother

[A slow-to-catch-on, spoiled junior sister x a sharp-tongued, nasty senior brother]

[A pure-blood adversarial couple]

Her territory had changed hands, and her sect had fallen into ruin.

When Yun Linyang woke up three years after her death, she never expected to hear this news.

The only good thing was that she had lost her sense of pain, and her injuries healed on their own.

To return to the immortal sect, she casually picked up a disciple of the Ziji Sect and begged him to take her to her senior sister.

When asking someone for help, you have to show the right attitude. She hid her spoiled, bad temper and put on an innocent, harmless act.

He agreed to her request, saw through her performance with a smile, and barely reacted.

Later, when Yun Linyang learned that the disciple was actually her closest senior brother, Du Wei, she couldn't pretend to be sweet and innocent for another second. In full view of everyone, she raised her hand and slapped him.

Du Wei was a disciple raised by her master, the head of Changling Sect. He was also a rare weapon cultivator, known throughout the world.

But now he had joined the Ziji Sect, abandoning his own sect.

To Yun Linyang's surprise, after being slapped, he didn't explain or get angry. His usually sharp tongue fell silent all at once. He simply stared at his palm, dazed, his fingertips trembling.

At the time, Yun Linyang thought he felt guilty.

But when he looked at her solemnly and asked her to slap him again, as if seeking confirmation, she decided he must actually be sick.

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After Du Wei unexpectedly lost his memory, he discovered that the world was vast, yet no one knew who he was. And now and then, excruciating pain shot through his body.

Then one day, the crisp sound of a slap rang out. The numbness that instantly filled his palm made him vaguely realize that the pain in his body might come from the girl standing before him.

She glared at him, acting hostile and no longer pretending to be innocent to deceive him. Yet when the world insisted she'd never had a senior brother named Du Wei, she stubbornly said she had.

Du Wei knew that her constant defense of him came from the bond they'd shared as senior brother and junior sister.

But when he bit her lip, savoring the tingling pleasure as the pain on her lips transferred to him, she was still worrying that the version of him who hadn't lost his memory didn't actually like her. He wished she would shut up and give that block of wood she called a brain a good shake.

He had already done all the things he never dared to do before, and was far better than the coward who'd always insisted he didn't care. Yet his junior sister was still busy rescuing her fellow disciples and reclaiming their territory, never remembering to return his kiss.

The more things failed to go his way, the more he would press her for an answer.

Better yet, he'd take things a step further while she was still thinking.

She already knew he had a bad personality, especially when it came to her.

[Reading Guide]

1. A mutually devoted one-on-one romance with a happy ending.

2. My own take on fantasy, with lots of original worldbuilding. Since the story involves resurrection, there are many extended flashbacks.

3. Ensemble cast, with a lot of characters.

The cultivation system is based on the three souls and seven spirits. The seven spirits form seven meridians in the body: the Taste Meridian (taste), the Listening Meridian (hearing), the Sight Meridian (vision), the Touch Meridian (touch), the Scent Meridian (smell), the Mind Meridian (spirit), and the Heart Meridian (soul). Each meridian has seven stages, and each stage has seven levels. Completing all seven stages of a meridian means completing all forty-nine levels.

[For detailed cultivation rules, see the author's note in Chapter 10]

Theme: The arrow is on the string and must be released.