My Junior Brother Is Remarkably Oblivious

In this mortal world, nothing is perfect. Good things come only after hardship, and joy can give way to sorrow.

People change, things change, and in the end, it's all a dream. Every realm returns to nothing. Would you still go?

The stubborn stone said, "I will."

Dream of the Red Chamber

Whether heaven and earth exist or not, if you never make the journey, then nothing will ever exist.

Everyone in Tianyue Sect wields a sword and cultivates a fierce sword intent. Only their junior apprentice, Liu Qingxian, is different.

He hates meditation and sword practice, and has no interest in cultivating immortality or seeking the Dao. Every day, he carries a chart of the Twenty-Eight Lunar Mansions, twisting soft, resilient heavenly silkworm thread into decorative knots and doing needlework. He drifts through life, carefree and indulged.

The whole sect says his talent has gone to waste and that he is hopeless. Only his senior apprentice, white-haired as snow and cold-hearted as ice, is always his steadfast pillar of support.

Others bully him for being unruly and useless, but he never needs to dodge when trouble comes. He only has to look back and call, "Senior Brother!" Before the sound has faded, a silver sword-light will cut through the air, freezing the heavens.

His senior brother was born with an immortal bone and had the greatest potential to become an immortal. But he failed to survive the heavenly tribulation, and was only a step away from reaching the Ninth Heaven.

So their junior sister grumbled indignantly, "How can you take it all for granted, Junior Brother?"

Liu Qingxian's eyes curved as he answered with complete conviction, "Because Senior Brother said he'll protect me for the rest of my life."

Even their master was exasperated. "If you two spent all that time on yourselves, even a rock would become a spirit. And it doesn't seem like your senior brother loves you all that much. I think he'd rather become an immortal. Be careful you don't end up as someone else's stepping stone."

The world sighed at how indulgent he was. Only Senior Brother accepted it willingly. But behind that willing devotion lay a deeper conspiracy.

More than anyone, he wanted to become an immortal. He had failed the heavenly tribulation, and his immortal bone had already cracked. He had made a blood pact with the Ghost King long ago, giving up half his immortal bone in exchange for the forbidden path to becoming a ghost immortal, then climbing upward step by step. He secretly studied forbidden texts and nurtured a "holy fetus" in his own belly with every drop of his blood, while planning to use Liu Qingxian's purest essence to become an immortal by reversing the natural order.

Every time he approached Liu Qingxian, it was only to get what he wanted.

But he had miscalculated one thing: he would truly come to cherish it. There was more to their entanglement than that.

In their previous life, the Ninth Heaven's sky split apart and the people suffered. Before a ruined peach-blossom shrine, a stubborn stone meant to mend the heavens truly fell to the mortal realm.

At the time, Tianquan, the head of Tianyue Sect, acted out of selfishness. He hid the stone in defiance of Heaven, took it in as his disciple, raised it with loving care, and protected it at every turn.

Now, the mortal sky was breaking apart and the people were on the brink of ruin. The common folk knelt and begged the immortals to save them.

Yet Tianquan still watched coldly, without the slightest pity.

Mortals risked everything to become immortals, while gods yearned for the mortal world. What bitter irony.

He quietly awaited his own heavenly tribulation, having already calculated the only way to survive.

As the tribulation burned his bones and its immense weight crushed him, he used his innocent, ignorant young disciple to take the fatal punishment in his place. Drawing on the stubborn stone's primordial power, the sect master passed the tribulation and ascended successfully, taking his place as an Immortal Venerable. But the Heavenly Dao's cycles are inescapable, and retribution never misses its mark.

Ascending to immortality should have been a joyous occasion, but Tianquan never smiled again.

No one knew the sealed secrets of that time. They only knew that before long, chaos erupted at the Heavenly Gate and demons ran rampant.

In a cataclysmic battle, the Heaven-Mending Stone, which should have been safe in the alchemy furnace, shattered completely. Its starlight faded, and its soul drifted away, nowhere to be found.

From then on, the newly ascended Heavenly Mechanism Immortal Venerable changed completely. He abandoned the people, defied the Heavenly Dao, and betrayed the Immortal Court. He destroyed his own merciless immortal bone without hesitation, fell into the endless cycles of mortal reincarnation, and pursued that wisp of vanished soul, never turning back for all eternity.

For through all those ages of love and longing, all the gods and Buddhas in the heavens, and all the people and their lands, none could compare to the stubborn stone in his heart: lost, found again, and the object of an obsession lasting ten thousand years.

1. The two-way attraction between the top and bottom is so intense they could take turns cutting each other down. Warm, adorable top x cold, fiery bottom.

2. In the first life, they are master and disciple; in the second, senior and junior disciples. The top dies, the bottom goes mad.

3. Dog top x cat bottom. My own take on a vicious, lovesick girl clinging resentfully to an innocent boy. There is a pregnancy arc; they have both wished the other dead, but they love each other desperately too.

4. There will be Chinese-style horror mystery arcs.

Theme: A model of the new era's senior and junior brothers