I Became My Past-Life Nemesis's Junior Sister

Synopsis for the upcoming novel "Negative Waters" is at the very bottom

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Overpowered, ruthless junior sister X beautiful-but-tragic, cocky senior brother

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When He Lianqi went out to play with her older sister, she met a young boy. He was handsome, but not very strong, and let himself get bullied until he was covered in dirt.

For reasons she couldn't explain, she took him home.

She believed that since she had saved him, he belonged to her. She demanded that he never betray her, even swearing an oath to Heaven.

She thought he would always be hers. Who could have guessed that one day, when the Immortal Sects came to aggressively oppress the Demon Realm, He Lianqi would see them across the riverbank and hear them say to the boy beside her, "You've been playing outside for long enough. It's time to come home."

Only then did she understand that the boy she'd picked up wasn't some pitiful little thing. He was the disciple of the head of one of the five Tai Bai Academies, and a prodigy upon whom great hopes had been placed.

He Lianqi felt betrayed and attacked him without hesitation. They parted on bad terms.

They met again on the first day of the war between immortals and demons. By then, He Lianqi was the Demon Venerable, feared throughout the Three Realms, while Qi Yechuan was the immortal Venerable, renowned for his noble bearing.

Before everyone's eyes, the Demon-Slaying Sword pierced her chest. He Lianqi fell to the ground and looked at the young man kneeling before her, struck by the God-Slaying Bow. She gave him one last cool smile.

The Immortal Sects cheered, believing they had won.

As they congratulated the Clear River Immortal Venerable and began slaughtering demons, Qi Yechuan, to everyone's surprise, used all his cultivation to set up a mountain-protecting formation here, then vanished into the snow.

In the fifteenth thousand, five hundred and third year of Chaoyuan, during the war between immortals and demons, the Demon Venerable and the immortal Venerable fell one after the other. The end.

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Five hundred years later, the Demon Venerable He Lianqi, who should have been dead, was released from her coffin. The young woman looked at herself, with no cultivation at all, so frail a gust of wind might knock her over.

The mighty, domineering Demon Venerable, the strongest fighter who could destroy an Immortal Sect with a flick of her finger: You've got to be kidding me!

To find out what had happened, He Lianqi took the assumed name "He Qi" and entered the Immortal Sect where her sworn enemy, Qi Yechuan, was based. She had already planned how to regain her cultivation and kill Qi Yechuan, only to learn that he had been dead for five hundred years.

Believing that if one person was at fault, everyone was responsible, He Lianqi quickly talked herself into seeking revenge on the Immortal Sect he had protected.

But can someone tell her why her irritating senior brother always shows up whenever she's up to no good?

The new generation's prodigy, Ye Qingchuan, sneered. "Junior sister, don't let your senior brother catch you doing something bad, or he'll have to punish you."

He Lianqi blinked, unconcerned, and turned his words against him. "Then let me warn you too, Senior Brother. Don't let me find out that you know, or I'll kill you."

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The day He Lianqi's identity was exposed, they dropped their gentle act and pointed their swords at her. She didn't look at them. Her gaze fell on Ye Qingchuan, no, on Qi Yechuan, who had come back to life by means of a wisp of his divine soul.

She had prepared for everything and thought nothing of these cultivators. What she hadn't expected was for Qi Yechuan to protect her, standing in front of her and pointing his sword at his former fellow disciples.

Upcoming novel synopsis:

World-weary carp demon who turned to the demonic path X prodigious young demon hunter

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Chang Yushui killed her enemy's entire family to avenge herself. Her name resounded throughout the land overnight, and countless people began hunting her.

Unfortunately for them, they failed to kill her. Instead, Chang Yushui killed her enemy, took their martial arts manuals, cultivated demonic power, and was struck dead by heavenly tribulation.

But she wasn't quite dead. Two hundred years later, she came back to life. Tired of spending her days hiding and killing, all she wanted was to find a safe place to live.

Who could have guessed that the Immortal Sect would come down the mountain to hunt demons and destroy her peaceful life? To make amends, they decided to escort her somewhere safe.

Chang Yushui, disguised as a human: Why don't you take a look at what's most dangerous?

Unable to talk them out of it, Chang Yushui reluctantly went along. They slayed demons and vanquished evil along the way, while she concentrated on keeping her identity secret.

To that end, she decided to stay away from Jinyun Shan, the powerful young man in white who looked the hardest to approach out of their trio.

But things didn't go as she wished. The more she avoided him, the more he came closer.

He even asked her seriously, with a stern look on his face, "Why are you avoiding me? Am I that scary?"

Chang Yushui: I don't know if you're scary, but I do know that if my identity is exposed, you'll kill me.

So she guarded her secret identity even more carefully, and even decided to run away at a moment's notice.

But she never got the chance. Instead, she ran into the enemy who should have been dead, alive again. Unable to suppress her hatred, she prepared to kill him once more.

Things didn't go smoothly. Someone discovered her, and her identity was exposed.

That person was Jinyun Shan, the genius demon hunter who had always suspected her.

Chang Yushui watched the young man approach, expecting him to draw his sword and kill the liar she was. Instead, he shielded her and pointed his sword at her enemy.

Everyone said Jinyun Shan had gone mad.

Not only had he turned against his own family for that demon, he had even broken his vows for her, only to be stabbed to death by her.

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Chang Yushui never expected the young man who had been traveling with her to be a descendant of her enemy, much less that they would end up on opposing sides.

As the two of them fought until they were both badly wounded, Chang Yushui stepped out from behind them and used demonic energy to kill them.

The consequence of killing him was that she once again found herself hunted by everyone.

Chang Yushui fled in a sorry state, avoiding all contact with people.

Just as she thought she could forget everything, the young man she had stabbed to death came looking for her. He pinned her roughly against the wall. His life-bound sword was right by her throat. He didn't even need to move it. Chang Yushui could kill herself with it.

The pain she'd expected never came. The young man put away his life-bound sword. His eyes were fierce, but his voice was gentle. "Shuishui, if you kill me, don't regret it. Otherwise, I'll think you've fallen in love with me."

Reader's Guide:

1. This is my own take on cultivation, with tons of original worldbuilding. I make the rules.

2. The heroine He Lianqi uses the assumed name He Qi. The hero Qi Yechuan/Ye Qingchuan is one and the same person.

3. The heroine is exactly as described in the synopsis. Don't force yourself to read if you can't accept that. This is not a rebirth story, nor is anyone possessing her. She is herself from beginning to end. She'll be weak after returning five hundred years later, but not for long. If you want a heroine who's strong from the start, you can drop this.

In bold, in big letters: This is not a female-centric power fantasy! Slow-burn, melodramatic, self-indulgent writing.

The prose will be plain and straightforward. Don't read if that's not your thing!

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The heroine's name comes from the saying, "Peach and plum trees say nothing, yet a path forms beneath them," from Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian, "On General Li."

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The hero's name comes from Wang Wei's poem "Returning to Mount Song": "Clear streams wind beneath long slopes, while carts and horses roll leisurely away."

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First version of the synopsis: 2025.12.19. Second version: 2026.1.31. Screenshots saved.

Theme: Having seen the vastness of the world, still cherish the green of grass and trees.