Wen Qing transmigrated early into a cultivation novel as a cannon-fodder female character: the pure-hearted sword spirit who loves the male lead.
In the original story, at the Immortal-Slaying Platform, the male lead, the greatest master in the world, fights against the heavenly lightning to protect the female lead, who belongs to the demon clan. He even breaks his bonded spirit sword to shield her.
In the end, only the sword spirit dies in agony.
Now inside the sword spirit, Wen Qing looks at the male lead, Yuchi Yan, a heartless sword immortal in secluded cultivation, and genuinely cannot understand how he could ever fall in love.
Regardless, Wen Qing thinks this master of hers is "no good," so she plays the part of a frail, delicate sword spirit.
Play the fool to fool the tiger, and improve her cultivation!
She works hard to temper herself once every three days and get reforged every five.
But in front of the male lead, she keeps to a Monday-to-Friday, nine-to-five schedule, with no overtime.
Every now and then, she claims her sword body is about to break...
"But no matter how hard or tiring it gets, I will serve my master until my dying breath!"
She does not ask to add icing to the cake, only to make matters worse. Wen Qing greatly extends Yuchi Yan's time in seclusion, and while he is away, she often sneaks off to the residences of other sect elders to win their favor.
To avoid giving herself away, she even invents a persona: a little sword-spirit widow whose master has died and who has no one to rely on.
One sword, dining at ten different households.
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Yuchi Yan knows that the sword spirit Wen Qing likes him, but he practices the Heartless Way and will not return her feelings.
Wen Qing often sheds tears and laments, confessing her love to her master. She claims that she even grows spirit herbs for him at night and will help him become the greatest sword cultivator one day... She never gets anything done, but the promises just keep getting bigger.
Then one day, Yuchi Yan comes out of seclusion in time for the sect's spirit-sword competition.
The Sect Leader, his senior brother, the Grand Elder, the Sword Immortal Maiden, and others all say they want him to admire their sword spirits.
Yuchi Yan hears six fellow cultivators all call out the name of their bonded spirit sword in perfect unison: "Sword Spirit Wen Qing!"
Yuchi Yan's calm expression cracks.
A disciple in the audience: "? Elders, are your sword spirits... all the same sword?"
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