The Icy, Sickly Sect Leader Flirted Me Dizzy

(The full novel has been revised. Please refer to this version! Bonus chapters will begin in mid-October. At the end is the blurb for the upcoming novel, My Mad, Sickly Beauty Forces Me to Save the World. Please add it to your collection!)

Blurb: [Cool-faced, adorable, straightforward sect leader x Sunny, innocent, easily flustered heroine]

Jiang Jinyue is a bounty hunter who takes care of injustices throughout the land. Whether it's tracking down thieves or finding someone's lost cat, she handles every job beautifully. Everyone who sees her calls her a great hero!

In all her years wandering the martial world, she reckons she's only ever fallen for someone three times.

Every time, it was the same person.

A sickly beauty who speaks at a snail's pace and coughs up blood at the slightest exertion.

The first time, she fell for her beauty.

Great Hero Jiang drew her blade and chased a suspect, shouting at a white figure, "Murderer! Stop right there!"

The woman in white turned around. Her features were exquisite, untouched by worldly dust, and she looked at Jiang in confusion. "Are we... going to catch the murderer together?"

Great Hero Jiang's blade clattered to the ground, along with her pride.

She failed to catch the woman and ended up being branded her accomplice in the eyes of the officials.

The second time, she fell because she was blind to the truth.

The woman couldn't even manage a simple greeting, yet her swordsmanship had Great Hero Jiang thoroughly impressed. In every clash of blades and rain of arrows, she was always the first to shield Jiang.

When Jiang heard that she was from the Qingxu Sect, her eyes lit up. "You're amazing! Are you an inner disciple, or a personal student of one of the elders?"

Yun Shu Qiu: "..."

She was the sect leader.

The third time, she fell because she was softhearted.

The case was solved, but more and more people came after Jiang Jinyue. As she followed the clues, they led to her own bloodline.

Sect Leader Yun was determined to keep her safe, yet she was so sick that Jiang had to carry her whenever they traveled.

Jiang gradually began to care about every little thing that affected Yun. She kept sweets ready for after her medicine, added an extra layer of clothing for her when they went out, and even wrapped her perpetually cold hands in her palms to warm them.

Only after spending time together did Jiang learn that the dignified sect leader didn't have a single friend.

That wouldn't do! Jiang immediately became Yun Shu Qiu's first friend in her life, taking her shopping, lantern viewing, and even teaching her how to read romance stories.

But when they reached a particularly tender passage, Sect Leader Yun looked up and asked with complete seriousness, "Could you and I... get married too?"

The question came out of nowhere. Jiang's ears turned red, and she hurriedly explained, "We're friends! Just ordinary friends!"

But somewhere along the way, their friendship became love.

At the time, Jiang still thought the sect leader was so innocent that she couldn't possibly know anything about romance. She imagined they could live together in harmony, keeping things pure and proper. That would be lovely!

But she'd forgotten that Sect Leader Yun had a photographic memory and learned everything quickly.

As for the fourth time, Great Hero Jiang refuses to admit it happened.

Still, a story spread in secret through Qingxu Mountain, one that made people blush but that no one dared confirm. Whenever the Office of Sect Affairs kept its lights on all night, Great Hero Jiang, now the sect leader's wife, would make sure to cover her wrists completely the next day.

...For fear someone might see the two red marks there.

(Highly intelligent, beautiful and tragic heroine | 1v1 | Both leads are each other's first and only | HE | Mutual salvation)

Reading guide:

1. Very sweet, satisfying HE, switch relationship, younger sect leader.

2. Ensemble cast. Companions appear one by one, and young martial artists take on greater responsibilities in the later story. Supporting characters won't steal the spotlight.

3. Low-magic, high martial arts. Primarily a wuxia story with a touch of fantasy.

4. Set in an alternate Southern Song dynasty. The story opens in the Jiading era (1224), borrowing only the era name and some aspects of the period.

5. The sect leader is already at the ceiling of combat strength from the start. The heroine becomes extremely powerful later, and her multiple identities are revealed much further into the story.

*

(Gentle, mad, sickly beauty x high-attack, low-defense younger goddess)

Cultivators across the land seek the Way from the hundred sects, and the hundred sects seek the Way from Uncontested Mountain.

Tong Xisheng was the young master of a sword-cultivator clan, famous from a young age. Then, in a single night, her entire family was slaughtered.

At the moment of crisis, divine power suddenly erupted inside her. It severely wounded her enemies, but also left her blind and covered in injuries. When the power faded, she was too weak to fight back. One of her enemies, lucky enough to survive, offered her up as a sacrifice and sent her to Uncontested Mountain.

The man knelt before the mountain gate, still in the middle of begging for a chance at immortality, when the sound of wind and snow beside Tong Xisheng suddenly fell silent. His voice turned old and hoarse, followed by several sharp cracks like dry branches breaking. At last, only the soft patter of fine sand remained. The man fell silent forever.

From the sound of it, the person who saved her was a woman.

Still shaken, Tong Xisheng had barely thanked her before she was taken into the mountain, without even a chance to say goodbye.

The woman's name was Bo Lingge. Everyone called her Peak Master. She killed effortlessly, yet was extraordinarily patient when caring for Tong Xisheng, personally giving her medicine, adding layers to keep her warm, and treating her eyes.

As time passed, Tong Xisheng gradually let down her guard. She even began to think she could be friends with the peak master.

On the day her sight returned, she finally saw the face she'd imagined countless times. The woman's complexion was pale, but her beauty was breathtaking. Tong Xisheng forgot herself for a moment.

"Bo Lingge, how can you be so beautiful?"

Only after the words were out did her gaze fall on the thin blanket over the woman's knees. Bo Lingge had been in a wheelchair all along.

Tong Xisheng's heart tightened. Before she could ask anything, the woman looked at her and said calmly:

"I saved you. Now I want you to save the world."

"...Huh?"

Tong Xisheng pointed at herself, but quietly edged toward the door. "Peak Master, are you sure you saved the right person?"

The seven peak masters of Uncontested Mountain each possess powers that reach the heavens.

Bo Lingge, the fourth peak master, is the only person in the world to have awakened the power of time. With a single thought, she can halt the passage of time. But the day she awakened, she also lost the ability to walk, and she has not stood up in ten years.

The world believes that only someone truly wicked can awaken a power as heaven-defying as the power of time. So they say she is ruthless and will stop at nothing to achieve her goals.

Bo Lingge can't be bothered to argue. She really will stop at nothing, and has never even spared her own life. Why would she care about a few nasty rumors?

Over the years, winters have grown longer and spring has come later and later. Heaven's signs foretell that one day, the snow and ice will never melt again.

And the only solution she has divined is the girl she saved at the mountain gate.

She has to keep this girl here.

At the mountain, Tong Xisheng can do whatever she wants. The only thing Bo Lingge won't allow is for her to leave.

Tong Xisheng has no choice but to make a deal with her. "Fine, I'll help you. But once it's done, you have to let me leave the mountain. No breaking your promise, Peak Master."

Bo Lingge agrees readily.

Tong Xisheng can only hope that day comes as soon as possible.

Who knew that before the world was saved, she would already be reluctant to leave the peak master?

*

One night, Tong Xisheng carries Bo Lingge from her wheelchair to the bed, thinking she's finally got the upper hand.

She leans close and whispers, "Peak Master, you can't move easily, so I'll..."

Bo Lingge looks up with a smile, but Tong Xisheng's ears turn red first.

The next moment, time across the world comes to a sudden halt. The candle flame and the shadows of the curtains freeze in place, and Tong Xisheng can't move.

Bo Lingge pushes herself upright and slowly leans toward Tong Xisheng's ear, her warm breath brushing against it.

"Tell me..."

"Who is it that can't move?"

(1v1 | Both leads are each other's first and only | HE | Fantasy | Switch relationship)

Core message: Even when surrounded by darkness, keep your heart turned toward the light.