Junior Brother

Name: Junior Brother
Author: Returning Mountain Jade

师弟

by Returning Mountain Jade (归山玉)

Status: Completed
Length: 619k Words
Genre: Romance
Era: Alternate History
Updated: 4y ago
Source: JJWXC

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Junior Brother

Ming Li was powerful in her previous life, stronger than anyone else.

Born into a top sect, she had extraordinary talent from childhood and joined the ranks of the continent's seven greatest at sixteen. She was the textbook beauty: strong and stunning, with no tragic past.

Because the tragedy belonged to the people around her.

From her family and friends to her fellow disciples, they were all tormented by love, hate, anger, and obsession until they wished they were dead.

Rumor had it that her brother, who had a terrible relationship with Ming Li, had his cultivation destroyed, his face ruined, and his tongue cut out before being locked away somewhere the sun never shone.

Rumor had it that her junior sister, who had once been jealous of Ming Li and badmouthed her at every turn, had been made into a puppet after someone dug out her heart and drained her blood to use her as a substitute.

Rumor had it that her senior brother, who had once humiliated Ming Li, had been stripped of all his pride and turned into a slave who dropped to his knees at the sight of anyone.

Rumor had it that her junior brother, whom Ming Li had once shot through the heart with an arrow, had been cursed with the most vicious spell in the world and sealed beneath the Tower of Resentment to suffer day and night.

Reborn, Ming Li: "?"

Who on earth was spreading lies about me having a bad relationship with them?

In her previous life, Ming Li had been so obsessed with cultivation that she never noticed the undercurrents around her. Only after returning did she realize that the people around her were disappearing one by one.

After thinking it over, Ming Li decided to start by looking for the junior brother she liked best.

②

Her junior brother was always gentle and patient with Ming Li. To everyone else, he seemed mild yet distant, but around her he was as warm as a little sun.

The rumors had that backward, too.

It was Ming Li who had shot her junior brother through the heart with an arrow.

Ming Li liked him very much.

After going through heaven and earth to find him at last, Ming Li saw him sitting amid a mountain of corpses and a river of blood, one foot resting on a short arrow. He propped his chin on one hand and studied her for a moment before laughing in a careless tone. "I can't believe just any Tom, Dick, or Harry dares to call herself my senior sister."

Ming Li: "..."

There seemed to be something wrong with her junior brother.

Blurb updated 5/13

Reading Guide:

① My own take on fantasy cultivation. I make the rules.

② Flashbacks ahead.

③ The male lead's true self appears late.

④ A romance with plenty of fighting.

⑤ The setting draws on the seven meridians, eight channels, and the four celestial quadrants.

⑥ My fantasy terminology can be pretty colloquial. If it's not your thing, don't force yourself to read it.

⑦ I'll add more if I think of anything.

-Brief explanation of the eight channels:-

Body Arts (physical ability), Heavy Eyes (eyes), Qi Movement (spoken formula and spirit words), Resonant Surge (ears), Heart Channel (temperament), Yang Channel (brain), Yin Channel (sense of self), Divine Court (spiritual power)

Every realm has seventy-nine levels, and there are seven full realms.

Reaching the peak of all eight channels means attaining the highest level of combat power: Pilgrim.

Theme: Always keep a kind heart

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