[Blurb to be revised. The sickly young lady and male lead who is obsessed with her remain unchanged.]
In the third year after abandoning her status as a young lady and leaving her sect to live in seclusion, Qiao Xunian comes across a peerless divine sword.
The divine sword is a System that has arrived late. It claims she is the chosen one, destined to become the greatest Sword Immortal of her era.
Qiao Xunian, frail, short-lived, and mediocre in aptitude, frowns and tosses the sword aside.
In a cultivation world where people live for well over a hundred years, her own lifespan is a pitiful twenty-two. How could she compete with a bunch of long-lived, gifted geniuses who are all out of their minds?
But the sword refuses to give up. It tells Qiao Xunian that while her lifespan can't be fixed, it can help her get a new body.
Qiao Xunian remains unmoved.
Just planting vegetables and cooking every day leaves her exhausted. How could she possibly take on the backbreaking work of sword practice?
The divine sword can't believe the person destined for greatness could be this lazy.
It takes until Qiao Xunian eats and immediately falls asleep for seven days in a row.
All right, it believes her now.
To help the chosen one rise to greatness, it brings in a servant to take care of Qiao Xunian's daily needs.
The servant arrives through the night and rain, with his hair and clothes soaked through, yet his first thought is to make Qiao Xunian four dishes and a soup.
At noon after the rainy night, Qiao Xunian has just woken up when she sleepily opens the door and sees the loyal servant the divine sword mentioned.
The young man has changed into clean clothes. His eyes are bright as stars, and he has the graceful bearing of a pine and crane. When he sees her, he awkwardly turns his face away.
Qiao Xunian squints to get a good look at him and can't help being stunned.
Damn it, why is it her ex-fiance, whose engagement she broke off?
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Sheng Sui has been exceptionally gifted since childhood, and was taken in as an adopted son by an elder of a major sect.
To repay the elder's kindness, he became engaged to the good-for-nothing young lady of a neighboring sect.
With the wedding date approaching, he and Qiao Xunian quarreled over a trivial matter. In a fit of anger, he called her a short-lived ghost.
The next day, she broke off their engagement. A few days later, she left the sect for good and vanished without a trace.
Sheng Sui regretted it deeply, hating himself for his careless words and her decisiveness.
When he finally found her, she had only three years left to live.
He set aside his pride and did everything he could to serve her, begging her to forgive him and change her mind.
But it seemed he was trying too hard in the wrong direction.
Qiao Xunian had broken off the engagement and left the sect for reasons that had nothing to do with what he said.
She simply wanted to leave, and happened to leave him behind as well.
Sheng Sui finally understood: he had hated the wrong thing.
After all that hate, the real reason was that Qiao Xunian simply didn't love him.
[Low-energy young lady x tsundere, emotionally shattered male lead obsessed with her]
① A mutually faithful, one-on-one romance with a happy ending.
② The worldbuilding isn't settled yet, but it probably won't be complicated.
Theme: May every year bring peace.
