(The cover is temporarily borrowed from Mumu's. The story looked too bare without one. I'll replace it with a pretty commissioned cover later, qwq.)
Everyone in the sect thinks Qu Zhaoli is the spoiled little junior sister.
But only Qu Zhaoli knows that it's all an act!
Her real identity is a demonic cult spy.
But after she'd been undercover for three years, the demonic cult was wiped out. Everyone from her direct superior to the boss above them was reduced to ashes.
Even worse, the whole immortal sect hated the demonic cult with a passion.
The last spy who came before her was interrogated in turn by nine elders. A barrage of heavenly lightning and flames turned them into dust in an instant.
Every day, Qu Zhaoli faces round after round of questioning from the immortal sect and can only play dumb. But looking at the cultivators, each one more vicious and terrifying than a demonic cultivator, she trembles with fear and decides to find herself another powerful ally.
So she sets her sights on her third senior brother, Chen Yuci, a gloomy, taciturn man who specializes in the Heartless Dao.
No one in the whole immortal sect dares provoke this brooding, ruthless madman, who kills with bloodthirsty relish whenever he claims that his inner demons are troubling him.
Qu Zhaoli used to think her senior brother was terrifying.
But now she thinks the cultivators who want to tear her limb from limb are even scarier!
No one dares mess with Chen Yuci, huh...? Then she'll cling to him!
Chen Yuci steals the immortal sect's thousand-year-old Dark Phoenix and cuts open its belly to take its core. Qu Zhaoli happens to witness it and testifies on his behalf: "The thing my senior brother was holding was a chicken!"
Chen Yuci kills a sect elder with one sword strike. Qu Zhaoli, who is right there at the murder scene, immediately lifts her skirt and stomps on the elder's corpse. "That wicked demonic cult spy dared to impersonate the Grand Elder!"
Chen Yuci: ...Is she genuinely innocent, or is something wrong with her head?
Apart from that, she brings him tea and water and keeps him company as he cultivates every day. Before long, everyone in the sect knows that their silly little junior sister, Qu Zhaoli, has fallen for a madman.
"Get in my way again and I'll kill...!" Chen Yuci has had enough of his clingy junior sister and points his sword at her. Seeing Qu Zhaoli staring back at him with a blank expression, she asks in a daze, "Senior Brother, is your spirit sword dirty? I'll wipe it for you!"
Chen Yuci's sword stops. Seeing Qu Zhaoli's pitiful, ingratiating expression, he abruptly looks away.
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Later, they are trapped in the Heart-Questioning Formation, a formation that specifically counters the Heartless Dao... Only by falling in love can they break free.
Qu Zhaoli cries in frustration: Where did this vicious formation come from? My senior brother cultivates the Heartless Dao, so stop making things hard for him...!
But the hand Chen Yuci grips his sword with trembles ever so slightly.
The first day they're trapped.
The third day they're trapped.
A month after they're trapped...
Chen Yuci looks at the half of the Heart-Questioning Stone that still won't light up. Then he looks at his cultivation, weakened across several realms because he's been consumed by desire day and night and his Dao heart has been broken.
He slowly turns his head and stares at Qu Zhaoli, who is quietly wiping away cold sweat beside him.
Qu Zhaoli: ...
Oh no, the big bad demon has found out!
"I-I think it's broken?" Qu Zhaoli replies foolishly.
#I woke up and discovered that my wife never loved me after all
Theme: The enlightened forget the dreams of the world, observe the Way of Heaven, and act in accordance with it
