After Dying in Front of My Senior Brother

Some of you need to mind your manners. Stop coming to the comments and Weibo every now and then to attack me personally. If you can't handle an angsty story, please avoid it. (To those who keep cursing me or spreading rumors that my husband abuses me or that I've cheated on him: Even if you have a husband, I won't. My mother had a fortune-teller predict my fate long ago: I'm bad luck for husbands.) (The story has undergone major revisions several times. I don't know which version has been pirated, so please make sure you're reading the legitimate version. I won't accept comments from people who read pirated copies.) [Angsty romance, second chances, happy ending] [Weibo: @ZiqiongHasGoneDark] On the day Yun Wan first entered Taixu Jianchuan, she met her senior brother, Shen Hezhi, on the road to immortality. The young man was radiant in white, his features as pure as snow. Yun Wan fell in love with him at first sight. Unfortunately, her senior brother bore a calamitous bone and had to cultivate the heartless path to suppress it, so she could only carefully hide her love. In the years that followed, Shen Hezhi guided her in swordsmanship, climbed the Immortal Mountain to seek spiritual herbs for her, and even took her punishment in her place when she was injured. Yun Wan always thought they would remain together day and night as senior and junior disciples. That was until her senior brother fell in love with a girl. Bright and charming, like a wintersweet flower in the depths of winter, she was nothing like Yun Wan. For her, he ruined his cultivation, betrayed his sect, and was even willing to have his heart carved out and his bones shattered, all to save the life of the man she loved. Only then did Yun Wan understand what her senior brother was like when he fell in love. When they met again, Shen Hezhi had become a wicked cultivator with blood on both hands, while Yun Wan had been chosen as Kunlun's leader in her role as Palace Master of Taixu Palace. She led the three palaces and twelve sects to hunt down Shen Hezhi, luring him step by step into the Demon-Slaying Formation. But the young man only shielded the beloved behind him with care, pointing his sharp sword at her. The senior and junior disciples who had once shared a sect now faced each other in battle. But when the Demon-Slaying Formation activated, the killing array that should have vanquished demons and evil spirits reversed itself into a life-exchange formation. Under the young man's disbelieving gaze, sharp sword energy pierced Yun Wan's body. She spent every last drop of her blood essence to change the fate that had doomed him to fall into demonic corruption and destroy the world. He turned against everyone for the woman he loved, even though she felt nothing for him. So she, too, defied the laws of heaven for the man she loved, even though it would cost her life. And that day, Shen Hezhi finally realized that all the madness of the past years had been caused by a Heart-Shifting Gu. For the Heart-Shifting Gu to take effect, its victim must already have someone in their heart. When love runs deep, the poison can seep into the bones. The one Shen Hezhi loved, from beginning to end, was none other than his junior sister, Yun Wan. No one knew what had really happened that day. They only saw the Demon-Slaying Formation crumble piece by piece, and, at the center of the shattered formation, the wicked cultivator stood red-eyed and disheveled, holding a blood-soaked woman in bewildered terror. He gathered his robes and knelt for a long time, begging the heavens for mercy, but his junior sister never opened her eyes again. [The blurb doesn't reveal the whole truth. The heroine did not die for the hero. Please don't make assumptions or raise warnings based only on the blurb, and if this isn't your kind of story, please don't come in just to stir things up.] [A thoroughly angsty story: even before the blurb's events, both leads are tormented by the villain and suffer terribly. Readers who strongly favor either the heroine or the hero are advised not to try it.] [Heroine-focused readers, beware: the heroine suffers terribly.] [Hero-focused readers, beware too: the hero witnesses the heroine kissing and embracing another male character.] [All kinds of melodramatic tropes thrown together, including an extremely dramatic plot where the heroine runs away while pregnant. If you can't handle the heroine giving birth, please steer clear.] [The two leads love each other wholeheartedly, with an enormous mutual attraction. The first 140,000 characters are spent showing how they fall in love. At its heart, this is a story about two hopeless romantics being toyed with by fate.] [The hero is completely blind to the other woman and has no emotional interactions with her. The heroine is the hero's first kiss, first time, and first love. From the dawn of time to the end of the universe, he has only ever loved her!] [I've seen readers with pretty high standards, so here's one more warning: In one side story, another woman gets into danger and the hero hugs her. There is no intimacy beyond friendship, and certainly no constant descriptions of the hero hugging and cuddling her. Please decide for yourself whether this is something you can accept.] [The hero cultivated an exceptionally ascetic, heartless path. He has no worldly desire for anyone except the heroine. This is explicitly stated in the story, so please stop imagining that the hero can't wait to sleep with the other woman, or that someone is forcing him not to sleep with her.] (Angsty romance is just a genre. The reason I started writing this was to try a story in which both the hero and heroine suffer terribly, full of melodramatic misunderstandings. Angsty stories are a style I'm extremely bad at writing, and this book was a bumpy journey with plenty of shortcomings. Even so, I learned a lot of new things about writing and had some new insights along the way. I'm very grateful to readers who accepted its flaws and still enjoyed it. I understand if you don't like it, and I've always been open to people disliking the plot or leaving bad reviews. But please don't slap a label on me just because you feel like it. I honestly don't know what to do with the people who inexplicably imagine I'm jealous of the heroine. I spent well over a thousand yuan commissioning art of her. Your few words don't give you the right to define me. If you have a habit of making baseless judgments about people, please steer clear. I'll delete your comment if you leave one.) (And to those who insist I identify with the other woman and am jealous of the heroine, and must therefore be a homewrecker in real life: Don't you realize how ridiculous that sounds? Keep spreading malicious rumors and one day they'll come back to haunt you.) Blurb screenshot dated 2023/12/12 ★ Check out my completed works in my profile: [Xianxia romance, The Male-Frequency Protagonist Is Winning Me Over] [Xianxia transmigrate-into-a-book romance, Bringing Down the Dragon's Pride] [Xianxia transmigrate-into-a-book power fantasy, The Junior Sister Acts as an Extra Every Day] [Xianxia reborn story, After Being Reborn, She Proves Her Dao Through Killing] [Chuanyu folk-horror cosmic horror, The Unknowable Town] [Thrilling sci-fi road story, Deep Space Descends] [Nonhuman story with a monster heroine, The Monster Girlfriend] Theme: Don't stop chasing the wind and moon. Beyond the level plains, spring mountains await.