After transmigrating into The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System as Shen Qingqiu, Shen Yuan thought that clinging to the protagonist's coattails would let him coast safely to the finale. Until he discovered that the remnant soul of the original Shen Jiu was still in his sea of consciousness, never fading away, cursing and longing all day over a name: "Yue Qi." And that Yue Qi was none other than Yue Qingyuan, the sect leader of Cang Qiong Mountain. Though his cultivation was unrivaled beneath the heavens, he always seemed to want to say something whenever he was in front of him. Though he was the revered leader of a sect, he secretly took the blows for him and prolonged his life, asking for nothing in return. The System coolly warned him: The original ending of the Qijiu route: the sect leader pierced by ten thousand arrows, Shen Qingqiu imprisoned as a human stick, and a double-death bad ending that cannot be changed. Shen Yuan refused to believe it. While negotiating with the original's remnant soul, "I'll help you uncover the truth about what happened back then, so stop making trouble," he dug up the long-sealed case of the Qiu residence from twenty years ago. As it turned out, Yue Qi hadn't broken his promise. He'd suffered a cultivation deviation after entering the sect, had the person he entrusted to ransom him intercepted, and had tried to crawl back to the slave market, only to arrive too late. One vow, "A show of loyalty, once in a lifetime," had trapped them both for half their lives. Since neither of you will speak up, I'll do it. Investigate the case, overturn testimony, change the flags, dismantle the Ten Thousand Arrows Formation, and, along the way, drag that taciturn senior brother out of his certain-death predicament. Yue Qingyuan said, "Xiao Jiu, I came too late." Shen Qingqiu replied, "This time, I won't send you away." From the old slave market to the peak of Cang Qiong Mountain, from the Qiu residence's blood-written letter to a snowy night at Qing Jing Peak, in this life, Xuan Su will stay sheathed, and Xiu Ya will only return to its master.
Theme: Just writing a little fanfiction.
