In the first year of Qingling, Yu Yufei, a spiritual arts practitioner who called herself a village doctor, came across an injured woman with an otherworldly air.
She recognized at a glance that the woman was one of the immortals. Choosing to "let her die," she turned and walked away.
In the spring of Qingling's third year, Yu Yufei, daughter of a deposed consort, was made Grand Princess Yunjia and sent to the border kingdom of Xiyao to marry for peace.
On the day of the welcoming ceremony, Jiang Yuqie descended from the sky, seized the wedding procession, abducted the Grand Princess, and razed Xiyao's palace.
In the fourth year of Qingling, Yu Yufei secretly kept forbidden books from Langhuan. The clan members who had done everything in their power to protect her sent her to the dungeons of Yunxiao Sect.
The successive massacres of the Li family and the uncertain fate of Jiang Yuqie, sect leader of Yunxiao, were all her doing.
Yu Yufei lamented that humans and immortals followed separate paths.
She and Jiang Yuqie had never known each other at first, and in the end, they did not recognize each other either.
She died beneath the Po Lang Sword.
Then five years passed.
Five years later, Yu Yufei opened her eyes and discovered she had been reborn as... a sword?
The very same Po Lang Sword that had sent her to meet the King of Hell!
And Jiang Yuqie, who had once abducted her from her wedding sedan, left her own long and short blades unused and held Po Lang in her arms every day, sleeping beside it in the Langhuan Library and never letting go.
Yu Yufei: This... I should just keep pretending I'm dead.
Who could have guessed Jiang Yuqie would polish the sword eight hundred times a day? Yu Yufei could only seethe silently as Jiang Yuqie did whatever she pleased.
Then suddenly, she heard her say with a bright smile:
"Aren't you going to wake up, my princess?"
-
A doctor cannot heal herself, and one who saves others may not save herself.
The thing Jiang Yuqie regretted most in her life was not bringing that spiritual arts practitioner back then and hiding her away in her own quarters.
Ever since the sword spirit came back to life, she would anxiously reach out to check the breathing of the woman sleeping beside her. Only after letting out a sigh of relief would she put an arm around her shoulders and drift peacefully to sleep.
Don't blame Heaven, don't blame the immortals. Let the mortal world raise her to the clouds, and let the immortals curse her by the thousands.
All she asks is that they share life and death, joy and sorrow, and that she keep her safe from harm for the rest of her life.
A Langhuan librarian and the book she lost long ago (crossed out)
A cultivator and the sword she snatched from someone else (crossed out)
An aloof, mysterious, ethereal goddess big sister x a foul-mouthed, scheming sword-spirit little sister (?)
Two mature women, 1v1, mutual pursuit, happy ending
P.S.:
The story begins with her being reborn, with parallel plots of past and present lives, a romance between a human and an immortal, and the tiniest hint of a nurturing dynamic. The age gap is anyone's guess.
This is a wildly fabricated, outrageously low-magic xianxia setting. The dynasty is fictional, so if anything seems unreasonable, I made it up.
Cover art by the artist @Xipi Liushui
Theme: Be concerned for the world before it is, and rejoice only after the world does.
Unconsciously catch up to the end. Found some setting bugs. The first one is a meaningless plot. The sister was dug out of the inner elixir, and the "can use other people's inner elixir" mentioned at the end has no effect on advancing the plot and is a redundant setting. Second, there is no point in imprisoning the sister. It may be necessary to add an "indispensable" setting of banned books/heavenly punishment. Then there are the bugs of "God" and "Power of Faith". If "god" disappears, there will be no so-called "godhead" or "god body" that can descend; The faith of the common people is gradually disappearing, but the Bian Qianjia and Li Qianjia still exist. At least the gods believed by the Xianmen should actually exist; Before the book-burning priest built Langhuan Temple, no one believed in him and he did not disappear; The Langhuan Temple dedicated to Xiaoyu is more numerous and wider than the Langhuan Temple dedicated to Book Burning Official. In terms of the power of faith, it should be far superior to the priest. The ending can be revised and perfected.
Li Qing looked at Yu Yufei with heartache. Nothing has happened to you. You are so unmotivated.
Because my sword was taken away and used as a CP
It hurts just to read the text. It's not her fault that she's a banned book.
This old man is a fan of both of them hahahahahahaha
Damn it, I burned my lover with my own hands
Is there no extra story about Yu Xian and Ying Wuyi?
The world of gods is desolate, so I will accompany her to keep it from becoming desolate in this life. It's so romantic.
I want to destroy the forbidden books on behalf of God, but this guy is too ill to understand.
The Biao family doesn't want to be just a Biao family, they want to be the inside family, become immortals, and become gods.