I Swear I Didn't Try to Win Over the Aloof Sword Immortal

#Opening in October, please add it to your collection!

[Easygoing, chatty slacker x aloof, doting-guardian immortal]

Four hundred years ago, the demons ravaged the mortal world under their Demon Lord, leaving devastation in their wake and chaos throughout the land.

Thankfully, the Sword Immortal Jiang Qiexing slew the Demon Lord with a single strike and saved countless people from disaster. From then on, he was renowned throughout the world and revered by everyone.

As the Sword Immortal's sole beloved disciple, Sui Xin says she is honored to be associated with him...

That is, she would be even more honored if she weren't the great demon who, according to every story, drank blood, slaughtered people without mercy, and was ultimately cut down with a single sword strike.

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If you asked what was at the top of the Hehuan Sect's must-have list, the answer would surely be the Sword Immortal Jiang Qiexing, the only Mahayana cultivator in the cultivation world.

He has unparalleled strength and a beautiful, immortal bearing. More rarely still, he is single-minded in his pursuit of the Dao and never goes near women, like a pristine snow lotus on an icy mountain.

Unfortunately, he is also an incredibly tough nut to crack, and countless sect disciples have tried and failed to win him over.

The sect master refuses to admit defeat and rallies the whole sect to claim this aloof flower of the high peaks.

With a single order, Sui Xin, who has been lazing around the Hehuan Sect, is forced to set off on a mission to take the Sword Immortal's primordial yang.

With senior sisters who have countless admirers and a junior sister born with bewitching charms ahead of her, Sui Xin knows her cultivation isn't up to par. She only wants to pretend to try and coast through her days.

So how has the supposedly untouchable Sword Immortal fallen for her after she simply crooks a finger?

No home? He takes her in. √

Food, clothing, and lodging? He takes care of it all. √

Elixirs and magical artifacts? He supplies them. √

No clue how to cultivate? He takes her as his disciple and teaches her personally, at close quarters. √

Sui Xin, teary-eyed: "Master, you're so good to me."

Jiang Qiexing: "Your cultivation is still lacking. I know a technique that can help you improve quickly."

Looking at the Dual Cultivation Secrets before her, Sui Xin: "???"

Which one of us is actually from the Hehuan Sect?!

Before long, shocking news spreads that Jiang Qiexing has committed the grave offense of falling in love with his newly adopted disciple, losing his primordial yang and breaking his Daoist heart.

The cultivation world is thrown into an uproar, and the aloof flower of the high peaks becomes the subject of gossip.

Faced with the old sect master, who looks at her with unmistakable approval, and her fellow disciples who clamor for her to share her secrets,

Sui Xin says, "I really didn't do anything! He was the one who came on to me!"

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The first time Jiang Qiexing saw Sui Xin, he knew she was the flower he had spent a century of cultivation nurturing back to bloom.

He had once placed her in the hands of a mortal couple, hoping she could leave her past behind and live a peaceful, happy life, free from killing and war.

He never expected that when he saw her again, she would have chosen the path of cultivation and become a wildflower, uprooted and without anyone to care for her, yet blooming more vibrantly than he had ever imagined.

He regretted it. He thought that no one in the world could protect her better than he could.

A Sword Immortal should be like a gentle breeze and bright moon, free of desire.

But you just happen to be the one thing I cannot stop wanting.

[Reading Guide]

1. Firmly committed to a one-on-one romance, with both leads sexually inexperienced and a happy ending.

2. My take on cultivation, with mountains of original headcanons. Mainly romance with a secondary plot, a sweet story. Not orthodox cultivation, and the heroine is not a strong female lead.

3. The blurb says the hero killed the heroine, but there will be a reasonable explanation. The leads are devoted to one another from beginning to end. They love each other passionately, completely, and without reservation.

4. Everyone has different tastes. If you don't like something, please don't force yourself to read it. Just go back and leave. No arguing or name-calling.

Theme: Unstained by the mud from which it rises