The aloof, warm-hearted, tsundere senior sister x the obsessive junior brother who secretly covets her and deliberately gets close
Chu Qi knows his senior sister has someone in her heart, her unrequited love: the senior brother who once saved her and left her feeling guilty, eventually giving rise to her inner demons.
He once sneaked into the secret chamber to look at the senior brother asleep in the ice coffin and thought, “How lucky. How can the living ever compete with the dead?”
Fortunately, the senior brother came back to life.
But this senior brother is devious, and far from a good person.
He wants to steal my moon. I can't let that happen.
Chu Qi is the newest outer disciple on Qingyun Peak. He regretted joining the sect the very day he was accepted.
He had come to Qingyun Peak on a whim, hoping to meet the person who owned the Moonlight Lantern he had seen on Mount Tianzhao all those years ago.
Only after arriving did he discover Qingyun Peak was shrouded in gloom: the master was in seclusion, the senior brother was unconscious, and the senior sister had left the sect with no return date… None of the disciples left behind could hold their own.
Later, the Seven Peaks Tournament arrives, and the senior sister, a legendary sword cultivator of dazzling talent, returns, holding a zither.
As expected, she's a genius. She gives up swordsmanship for the zither, yet still shines brilliantly and remains undefeated, like the cold, bright moon in the sky.
Qingyun Peak keeps its title as the best of the seven peaks, just as she once wished upon the Moonlight Lantern. But the senior sister doesn't seem happy.
Wasn't this what she had risked everything, even her own safety, to achieve?
Chu Qi can't understand. He begins testing her, drawing closer to the moon one careful step at a time.
Testing her, scheming, demanding what he wants,
Chu Qi slowly grows afraid. He seems more and more like his mother. His mother won his father's body, but never his heart, and he's terrified of repeating her mistakes.
Theme: Keep your fate and your victories in your own hands.
