The Laid-Back Junior Disciple Refuses to Be Tied Down

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Ning Suisui is the youngest junior sister of Endless Mountain. She eats the most despite being the youngest, and all she ever thinks about is lying flat rather than practicing swordplay. She can also somehow win every fight.

Her greatest hobby is shipping her senior brother Pei Zhiyan with other people. She even buys romance novels about her favorite pair and stays up late reading them, working harder at it than she does at cultivation.

Fellow shipper: "Look! Your senior brother and she really do have something going on!"

Ning Suisui covers her mouth. "I knew it!"

As the sect leader's foremost disciple, Pei Zhiyan appears gentle and courteous, but in truth he keeps everyone at a distance. Though only a disciple, he worries about everything the sect leader should, and he is always catching his junior sister reading novels late at night.

Rumor has it that he has a beloved white moonlight, but no one knows who it is.

One day, rumors suddenly spread through the sect that Ning Suisui was the person Pei Zhiyan loved. She was terrified.

She shut herself away to quash the rumor, but her master ordered the two of them to travel together. Like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, she bristled. "No! I can't! My senior brother's beloved will get jealous!"

She begged her master to take back the order. When word reached Pei Zhiyan, the light in his pale golden eyes dimmed. He only said, "If she doesn't want to, then let it go."

At some point, Ning Suisui began finding a fluffy spirit beast near her courtyard. Its fur was pure white, and its pale golden eyes looked exactly like her senior brother's.

She adored it, keeping it by her side during the day and letting it sleep with her at night. She thought the little fluffball was perfect in every way, except that it was always running off. But it knew to come back and would even act spoiled, so she let it be.

[Bonus Scene]

Ning Suisui thinks her gentle, refined senior brother and she just don't get along. For instance, she loves fluffy spirit beasts, but he doesn't.

Whenever she pets the fluffy creatures she finds along the road, Pei Zhiyan always looks displeased. The next day, that spirit beast will have been sent away from Endless Mountain.

Pei Zhiyan, gritting his teeth: "Junior Sister really is fickle, always chasing after one thing and then another."

Ning Suisui, bewildered: "Huh?"

Tips: 1. The heroine is a sweet, simple-minded airhead in her thinking, but a violent maniac in a fight, knocking out every weakling with one punch.

2. The hero is not human in his true form. He is an ancient divine beast who has decided that his mate is the one for him for life, and he can barely restrain his possessive nature.

Coming soon: After I Toyed with the Black-Hearted One and Cast Him Aside

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When Bai Jiaojiao was young, she knew nothing about love. During a gathering of the immortal sects, she set her sights on a fallen noble family's son. He had eyes deep as a pool, exceptional looks and bearing, and was a rare beauty.

But she was fickle. As soon as she got him, she grew bored, making Xie Yubai cater to her every whim. If anything displeased her, she would turn cold and walk away.

When the gathering ended, Bai Jiaojiao left without a backward glance, saying icily, "You're only a concubine-born son of a noble family. Our stations are different. Let's part ways here."

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A century later, the immortal sects gathered again in the Upper Immortal Realm, and Bai Jiaojiao saw Xie Yubai once more.

Now he wore flowing white robes, his figure as straight as bamboo. A long sword at his side, he stood among the crowd, handsome as carved jade, his warm smile drawing every eye.

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Bai Jiaojiao stood on the balcony, her face full of distaste.

"Young Mistress, do you know him?"

"I don't." Just then, the man looked up at her. Bai Jiaojiao answered coldly and turned away.

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That night, the maid on duty outside the young mistress's residence jolted awake. She could hear Bai Jiaojiao shouting things like "Get out!" "You're insane!" and "You mad dog!"

But the doors were sealed by a spell, and the maid couldn't get in.

The hall was dim. Anger had flushed Bai Jiaojiao's pearly face red, and her spirit sword, already stained with blood, was pressed against Xie Yubai's neck.

Yet Xie Yubai seemed not to notice. He calmly protected her delicate fingers, his eyes curving into a smile. "You're right, Young Mistress. I'm a mad dog. I only listen to you."

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If Bai Jiaojiao had known earlier that Xie Yubai, who seemed so pure and noble on the surface, was rotten and twisted inside, and exceptionally good at enduring things, she would never have provoked him.

[Powerful and influential young mistress of an immortal sect] X [Black-hearted, patient, and deranged]

Tips: 1. The heroine has a terrible personality, and the hero loves her to the point that he wishes she were even worse, so he can be the only one who puts up with her.

2. Neither is perfect. The hero is genuinely crazy.

Theme: May every dusk bring another year, and every year its share of warmth and joy.