[JX3] Picking Ferns

Content warnings: 1. This is a story-driven, historically oriented wuxia fan fiction with a touch of the supernatural, based on Sword 3. Most of the story follows the quests from levels 1 to 70, and what the player experiences is what the protagonist experiences. Since this is historically oriented wuxia, any quest details that don't fit the story will be cut or adapted, so this isn't a word-for-word retelling of the original plot. The game's fantastical skills will also be adjusted to make them more logical. Once the story reaches the level 80 era, most of it will be original through to the ending.

2. Pairing notes: The main pairing is Ce Xiu [BG], Hua Mie [BL], Wang Yifeng x Ye Ying, Qu Feng x Su Tianbai, Pei Yuan x Luo Feng, Li Cheng'en x Xiao Qi, and the other canon pairings. Please don't come here to argue about pairings.

3. Some details differ from the official version.

The literary blurb below can be skipped:

In the fourth year of the Tianbao era of the Tang dynasty, the empire reached the height of its prosperity, then began to decline. Imperial authority slipped from the court's hands, chaos spread through the martial world, and as troubles mounted at home and abroad, a small disturbance stirred the winds of change.

That year, Yang Yuhuan was formally named a consort, and An Lushan was summoned to the capital. The turmoil that would engulf the land ten years later began to take shape.

Blazing beacons, towering banners of war. When the nest is overturned, what egg can remain whole? For ordinary folk, there is no escaping the flood and flames of war.

When I left, the willows were lush and green. Now that I return, snow falls thick and fast. When will those who have left, and those sent to war, come home?