My Senior Brother Still Hasn't Been Successfully Captured Today

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After failing to overcome her tribulation and ascend, Qu Lianxi was reborn in the year she had just joined her sect.

Along with her came a voice that had inexplicably appeared in her head.

The voice told her, "Complete the missions assigned by this System, and it can help you overcome your tribulation and ascend to immortality."

Qu Lianxi thought it over. She had spent more than twenty years cultivating and still failed to ascend. She might as well give this a try. What if it was real?

The voice said, "Your mission is to win over your Fourth Senior Brother, Kong Xuanyan, and make him fall at your feet. Completion requirement: reach one hundred affection points."

Qu Lianxi made Kong Xuanyan his favorite pastries. [Affection: +0.5]

While making the pastries, Qu Lianxi accidentally added a little too much sugar. [Affection: -10]

Qu Lianxi helped Kong Xuanyan clean his room. [Affection: +0.5]

While cleaning his room, Qu Lianxi accidentally broke his teacup. [Affection: -20]

[Current affection: -29]

Qu Lianxi: "???"

What kind of messed-up scoring system is this?!

Is it too late to regret this now?!

Qu Lianxi thought that in her past life, she had devoted herself entirely to cultivation and knew little about how to win a man's favor. So she used a training trip as an excuse to leave the mountain and planned to learn a thing or two in the mortal world.

But after she left, someone couldn't get used to her absence.

After going down the mountain, Qu Lianxi realized that something always seemed to be following her. It was fierce and gave off an aura of black qi...

The black qi was especially terrifying whenever she got close to a man.

What should she do? It seemed she'd provoked something frightening...

-

In the bustling capital, someone galloped past on horseback. Qu Lianxi had a candied hawthorn skewer in her mouth and hadn't even reacted when someone scooped her up around the waist.

Before her stood a stranger.

She hadn't yet had a chance to thank him when a familiar, gritted-teeth voice sounded behind her: "Qu, Lian, xi."

Qu Lianxi turned around in delight. "Fourth Senior Brother..."

Kong Xuanyan's face was icy. "He just held you."

"This gentleman just saved me."

"He, just, held, you!"

"..."

Qu Lianxi decided that men really were such a hassle. A man's heart was as unfathomable as the ocean floor. She couldn't figure them out at all! When would she finally be able to ascend...

[The junior sister with her heart set on ascending & the possessive Fourth Senior Brother]

- This story contains many, many, many original creative liberties. Please refer to this story as the authority.

- The cultivation levels in this story, from lowest to highest, are Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Earth Immortal, and Heavenly Deity. Each level is divided into early, middle, and peak stages. (This is not a traditional cultivation novel, and the levels are fairly simple.)

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The day Qin Zhen brought lavish gifts to Prince Su's residence to break off his engagement, it was a drizzly spring day in the third month.

Liang Yannian lay beneath the railing under the eaves of her little courtyard, staring blankly at the pond outside. Raindrops formed ripples across its surface.

Her maid, Cuicui, came over. "Miss, His Highness the Second Prince says he would like to see you and apologize in person."

Liang Yannian blinked her lovely, bright eyes and replied softly, "Tell him to get lost."

Cuicui: "..."

-

Everyone in the capital of Beiyu knew that Liang Yannian, the third young lady of Prince Su's residence, and the Second Prince, Qin Zhen, had been childhood sweethearts. They had been betrothed at the age of three, and their wedding was just a month away.

A month before the wedding, Qin Zhen broke off the engagement. Less than half a month later, he married the eldest daughter of the Chancellor's residence. Liang Yannian became the talk of the capital over tea.

To make amends to the Liang family, the emperor bestowed ten thousand taels of gold, countless jewels, and bolts of fine silk. He then issued an edict arranging a new marriage for Liang Yannian.

Liang Yannian's response: Your Majesty, if you have so much free time, perhaps you should read a few more memorials.

-

Bai Lutiao, the second son of the Commander's residence, was handsome, spirited, and full of vigor. He had followed his father on campaigns since childhood. At fourteen, he donned armor and went to battle; at sixteen, he led the vanguard in a surprise raid on the enemy camp and slew an enemy general, earning a string of distinguished military achievements. Now eighteen, he was already the renowned young commander of the Windbreaker Army throughout Beiyu.

The day after he returned to the capital from the border, the emperor issued an edict arranging a marriage for him.

Bai Lutiao did not want to marry a woman he had never met, so he rejected the match in public. "I won't marry her!"

After his father called him to the study for a noisy, clattering "talk," he finally came out with a bruised and swollen face and accepted the edict.

-

Bothered by the whole affair, Bai Lutiao went to a tavern to drown his sorrows. There he met someone dressed as a page who seemed just as unhappy as he was.

The two shared a table and drank together.

The alcohol went to Bai Lutiao's head. He slapped the table and stood up. "This is infuriating! I'm the young commander of the mighty Windbreaker Army. Why should I marry a woman I've never even met? What if this Third Miss Liang is ugly, bad-tempered, and frail? What if we have nothing to say to each other after we're married?"

After a moment of silence, the "page" beside him looked up. "I don't think I'm ugly."

Bai Lutiao: "?"

"My temper is pretty good, too."

"..."

"And I'm in good shape. When I get serious, I can take on two people at once."

"...?"

[The third young lady of the Prince's residence & the second son of the Commander's residence]

Theme: With perseverance, you can achieve your goals.