She Is So Ordinary

There is a divine sword in this world called Worryless.

Legend has it that whoever obtains this sword can forget every sorrow in the world and ascend to immortality.

Countless people came seeking Worryless,

but left carrying sorrows beyond count.

The young Pu Tong is an ordinary cultivator of the heart.

She has no supreme talent for cultivation,

no distinguished family background,

and no striking looks.

In the Hundred Provinces, she is utterly unremarkable, even good for nothing.

And yet, someone like her

became the first sword master of Worryless in all its long history.

Romance-focused blurb:

The Wen Clan of Jiangzhou has produced geniuses born with sword bones for generations.

Every one of them is a renowned Sword Venerable, a mighty figure across the Hundred Provinces.

Wen Yunhe, the genius of this generation, was predicted to become the master of a divine sword and ascend to immortality when he first held a sword at the age of three.

Bearing the hopes of his entire clan, he entered a secret realm to seek the divine sword Worryless.

But he never expected that meeting an ordinary female cultivator would make the sword mark between his brows appear again and again.

His clan members said that the appearance of the sword mark meant he had encountered a sword tribulation.

At best, he would spend his life gloomy and joyless. At worst, his Dao heart would be destroyed and his bones ground to dust.

Wen Yunhe: No matter. I can defeat a mere sword tribulation.

Later, the one he held dear in his heart and thought about day and night was this very female cultivator.

Wen Yunhe shouted angrily: Didn't you say it was a sword tribulation? Why didn't anyone tell me it was a romantic tribulation!

Little scene:

After winning the Hundred Provinces Tournament, Pu Tong gave an interview.

Sword Sect elder: How did you get the divine sword to recognize you as its master?

Pu Tong: I don't know. It insisted on choosing me.

Sword Sect expert: I hear Wen Yunhe has a crush on you. How do you feel about him?

Pu Tong: Huh? We aren't close.

Pu Tong thought the expert had just been talking nonsense.

Wen Yunhe said she was his destined rival.

How could he possibly have a crush on her?

That is, until he stopped her after she left.

“If you don't like me, fine, but why say we're not close? Were all those years of fighting you for nothing?”

“!!!” Pu Tong stared in shock. “You really like me? Aren't we sworn enemies?”

Wen Yunhe rubbed his forehead and smiled wryly. “Who told you we were sworn enemies?! What decent person bathes and burns incense before fighting you, wears his best robes to fight you, then drinks under the moon and talks heart to heart with you afterward...”

Pu Tong asked, seeming to understand. “Were you trying to seduce me?”

The tips of Wen Yunhe's ears turned bright red. “You're as blunt as ever.”

Reader's guide!

Not a strong female lead story, not a power fantasy, and a slow-burn coming-of-age story.

An ensemble cast, plot-focused, with the romance taking a back seat.

No abuse of the female or male lead. A heartwarming story of love, friendship, and family.

Not traditional cultivation fantasy. My own take on xuanhuan, with lots of original worldbuilding.

[Coming Next! The Whole World Wants to Kill Me]

Su Yunwei, chief among the divine officials, was ordered to travel to the frontier and exterminate an evil seed.

But the moment he saw her, he was captivated by her appearance.

To make sure the evil seed died looking her best,

Su Yunwei created a snowstorm that never saw daylight.

Sixteen-year-old Zhu Hua, determined to fulfill her parents' final wish, carried a heavy sword case across a thousand-meter-high mountain, only to lose her way in a snowstorm.

The road ahead stretched endlessly. Alone, she became unable to see or hear,

then lost all five senses and the use of all four limbs.

On the verge of death, she clutched her sword case and struggled to crawl through the snow.

Then she saw someone walking toward her beneath an umbrella.

Three years later, Zhu Hua, praised by the people, had become the top disciple of Hongmeng Academy. Yet she was hunted again and again by all manner of people. Whenever she narrowly escaped danger, her teacher, Su Yunwei, would happen to see her and carry her back to the clinic to treat her wounds.

Everyone said that Teacher Su was aloof and that no one could catch his eye. Only Miss Zhu could see the warmth in his gaze.

Zhu Hua believed them, and gradually fell for Su Yunwei, until she discovered an umbrella in his room that seemed strangely familiar.

That night, she knocked on Su Yunwei's door. By candlelight, she pressed a blade to his throat and said with a smile, “People say you are like snow atop a lofty mountain, visible but unattainable. I don't agree. You are human, just like anyone else. I once thought you treated me well because you had feelings for me. Only today did I realize that everything you have done was because you felt guilty toward me.”

“I was only following orders.”

Su Yunwei brushed away the tear at the corner of her eye and said with an indifferent expression:

“Everyone who knows your identity wants you dead.”

“Their desire to kill me is their business.” Zhu Hua pressed the blade closer. “What I want to know is, do you still want to kill me?”

Su Yunwei glanced at the blade at his throat, took a measured sip of tea, and pushed the blade away.

“I don't.”

The young woman put away her knife and raised her face with a smile. “If you forget your words today someday, then I will repay you a hundredfold for what you have done to me.”

Su Yunwei leaned back and spread his hands, smiling without a trace of reserve. “Be my guest.”

In a sentence: A story about a destitute orphan girl who, through loving and fighting with a cunning divine official, gradually becomes a new god of the world.

Theme: Even the most ordinary person is the protagonist of their own life.