[Blurb screenshot: 2023.1.14]
Ning Zhi woke from a coma and saw someone sitting beside her bed.
The handsome young man looked down at her, a faint smile in his eyes. "Long time no see, Senior Sister."
Ning Zhi studied the face, exactly as she remembered it, for a long while, then sighed. "A Jue, you shouldn't have come back."
Xi Jue lowered his eyes. His cool fingers gripped Ning Zhi's chin, and the menace in his eyes deepened. "What, now that I'm back, do you want to kill me again?"
When Ning Zhi fell silent, he suddenly smiled again. He leaned down and pressed his forehead affectionately to hers. "Every day in the Demon Realm, I thought of you. What about you, Senior Sister?"
Ning Zhi gave a slight shake of her head. "A Jue, whatever you came back to do this time... give it up."
Xi Jue pressed his lips to hers and whispered, "What if I say no?"
Ning Zhi was silent for a while. "Then I won't mind killing you again."
The young man smiled once more and tightened his embrace. "All right. I'll be waiting."
*
On the day Huntian City fell, Ning Zhi stood atop White Chalk Peak, holding a divine weapon as she faced Xi Jue.
Xi Jue, the great demon in everyone's eyes, ignored the three thousand cultivators behind Ning Zhi, all eager to kill him with their own hands. He focused only on her. "Ning Zhi, this is the third time you've killed me. Sometimes, I really wonder which one of us has no heart."
The hand holding Ning Zhi's sword trembled faintly, but she still said calmly, "A Jue, stop this."
Xi Jue looked at her with mocking sorrow. "Senior Sister, I always went along with you before. Every time, no matter what happened, I ultimately respected your choice."
Ning Zhi replied softly, "Mm."
Xi Jue smiled. "The first time, I lost my cultivation and my identity. The second time, I lost my entire family. And each time, you gave me up and chose those people who meant nothing to you."
Ning Zhi: "..."
Xi Jue: "What if I say I don't want to go along with you this time?"
After a long silence, Ning Zhi suddenly stepped forward and gently laid a hand on the young man's face, smeared with blood but still handsome.
"A Jue, you said I never chose you. You're right... I owe you so much."
Ning Zhi spoke gently. As Xi Jue stared at her in uncertainty, she curved her lips into a smile.
"So this time, I choose you."
Seeing Ning Zhi so serene, Xi Jue was dazed. It was as if he were seeing the Senior Sister from the year he first became her disciple, standing beneath the towering mountain gate, smiling at him and gently taking his hand.
But in the next instant, Xi Jue felt a chill in his chest.
Ning Zhi's divine weapon pierced him through the back and emerged from her own chest, impaling them both.
"This time, I'll go with you."
A lovesick, unrequited-love, mad demon junior brother x a noble, clear-minded senior sister focused on her career
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