Innocent yet cruel, almost inhuman divine master × stoic, precocious, stubborn disciple with a strong moral compass
Two hundred years ago, Feiqiong’s sect was brutally slaughtered. Of the more than three hundred people in the sect, Feiqiong alone survived.
Fortunately, just as all hope seemed lost, a reclusive master passing by came to her rescue. His name was Puyu, and he took Feiqiong deep into the mountains and accepted her as his disciple.
Unfortunately, her master was a strange person who knew nothing of worldly conventions.
Puyu was as pure as a blank sheet of paper, with no understanding of human ethics or boundaries. She acted entirely on instinct, often crossing lines and leaving Feiqiong mortified, yet there wasn’t a trace of worldly lust in her eyes.
Precocious Feiqiong indulged her master’s unrestrained affection and dependence, cleaning up all her messes without complaint.
She practiced her sword day and night, hoping that one day she could descend the mountain and avenge her sect, then come back and protect the master who couldn’t survive without her for the rest of her life.
Until the day Feiqiong encountered a black-robed demonic cultivator at the foot of the mountain.
Feiqiong drew her sword to fight, only to discover that the demonic cultivator was her senior sister, another survivor of the catastrophe all those years ago. She smelled of rust and blood, and a long scar ran from her forehead across her right cheek. She was nothing like the spirited senior sister Feiqiong remembered.
Reunited with an old friend, Feiqiong was both astonished and overjoyed.
But her senior sister leaned close and whispered in her ear:
“Be careful of your master… When the time is right, I’ll get you out of there.”
Feiqiong was thunderstruck.
Only then did she learn that the people who destroyed her sect two hundred years ago weren’t demonic cultivators.
The true culprit who slaughtered all three hundred members of her sect was her savior, Puyu.
Her spotless master was nothing but a capricious god who saw mortals as ants and casually unleashed calamities upon them.
And Feiqiong had mistaken her enemy for her master, serving her at her side for two hundred years.
Note:
* An all-women world with no men. Suggestions for terminology are welcome in the comments.
* A nontraditional cultivation setting: humans cannot ascend and become gods.
* HE
Coming soon: My Sister Keeps Trying to Ruin My Love Life, also an all-women story
Pseudo-incest love triangle: an affectionate, promiscuous, clingy big-sister type × a deadpan, adorable, faux-proper, secretly passionate little sister
After work, Lu Yaoguang went home with her girlfriend to meet the family. Since her mother had passed away, her only family was her awful older sister, Zheng Jingzhe.
Zheng Jingzhe chatted with her younger sister’s girlfriend with such warmth and enthusiasm, it was as if she wholeheartedly intended to entrust her sister to this young woman she’d only just met.
Her girlfriend told Lu Yaoguang, “Your sister isn’t as scary as you made her sound. She’s really nice.”
Lu Yaoguang sighed. After seeing her girlfriend off, she returned to her sister’s apartment and found Zheng Jingzhe smiling as she asked:
“Want to bet on how long you and her will last?”
In Lu Yaoguang’s brief dating history, every relationship had passed like a shooting star.
The longest lasted three months. The shortest, only a few days.
“Can’t be helped. You’re always the one who ruins things,” Zheng Jingzhe said, resting a hand on her sister’s leg as she teasingly passed judgment. “Want your big sister to teach you?”
Lu Yaoguang pushed her hand away and said quietly, “You know very well I’m not the one who ruins things.”
“Zheng Jingzhe, you know perfectly well that all these years, it’s been you. You’re the one who keeps ruining my relationships.”
“You won’t let me build a lasting relationship with anyone else, will you?”
Zheng Jingzhe froze, her expression as if it had been locked in place.
“How can you put it like that?” It took her a long while to get her expression back under control.
Zheng Jingzhe hooked a finger around Lu Yaoguang’s, deliberately softening her voice. “Relax. Then I’ll bet you last a year this time. How’s that?”
You’re such a terrible person, Lu Yaoguang thought expressionlessly. But she didn’t pull away the hand her sister was holding.
“No. This time, I want to be with her forever,” she said.
Lu Yaoguang watched her sister’s face turn deathly pale.
Theme: Learning true compassion.
The ending wasn't a double tragedy, which is a bit of a disappointment (not really; the scene where she calls him "Mom" was quite artistic). Will there be any side stories about the senior sister?
Pu Yu finally has a mother; it's been such a long time!
Even if you form a bond, you can still be abandoned 😚
Actually, from another perspective, I really can't see what's wrong with Puyu. If you were a god in the world, all those things were something you were born with. You had no father, no mother, no master; no one taught you right from wrong. For hundreds of years, you didn't even know what emotions were. In that chaos, you were the only one.
They've tied! It feels like there's a hidden message in the synopsis: "Humans cannot ascend to godhood." So when a god falls into the mortal realm, tainted by love and hate, and discovers that even with her immense divine power, she cannot make the mere human Fei Qiong immortal with her, and like Gan Tang, she is powerless against the departure of her beloved, only then will she truly understand the weight of life.
Hmm, they were very attentive and patient during the initial guidance, but after meeting the senior sister once, they went berserk. I told them, "You're all doomed."
Oh no, if I go back and find Ah Man dead, I'll go crazy again. I already owe enough debts; can this really have a happy ending? Author, please have mercy! [Hugging thigh]
Ah 😭 My senior sister is here, are we going to start getting all lovey-dovey again?
Do you like Fei Qiong?
They've learned their lesson; I'm relieved.