Time to Find a Dao Companion

[Cool, aloof female lead adored by everyone / love rivalry / older master and apprentice / younger puppy-like man / yandere / cross-dressing / possessive fan / substitute trope / outwardly noble and serene, secretly unhinged / aloof beauty falls from her pedestal]

1

Zhao Yingqi reaches a bottleneck in her cultivation. Fortunately, her master has emerged from seclusion and summons her to give her guidance.

Her master is dignified and noble, as cool and pure as the bright moon.

A late-night conversation.

As the gauze curtains fall, her master turns her face slightly, her voice hesitant:

“Zhaozhao, perhaps you should find yourself a cultivation partner.”

If you cannot overcome the tribulation of love, how can you ascend to immortality?

She softly agrees.

Zhao Yingqi goes down the mountain. When she returns, a beautiful young man is by her side.

At the mountain gate, her master sees the young man whispering to her and immediately sweeps away in a fit of anger.

Later, the sect discovers that the young man she brought back is a demonic cultivator. Her master intends to kill him. With trouble brewing at home, Zhao Yingqi is caught in the middle and suffers the consequences.

2

To restore her true essence, Zhao Yingqi goes to the Jade Palace to recover.

Immortal Venerable Lan Yuan is as gentle as jade. Knowing she is injured, he shows her every possible kindness and care.

With fragrant breezes and tender affection all around her, it is only natural that Zhao Yingqi's heart should stir.

Only when a beautiful servant of the Jade Palace kneels before her and tearfully explains does she learn that the person who has been looking after her is not Lan Yuan.

Snow falls at the Jade Palace. After hearing her say with his own ears that she wants to leave, Lan Yuan gazes at her for a long time and says, “I won't allow it.”

Lan Yuan poisons her medicine.

Her old wounds have yet to heal, and she is already frail.

Zhao Yingqi knows he did not mean to kill her, but that is the outcome all the same.

3

All her life, Zhao Yingqi has done everything she can to ascend to immortality. The only thing that has gone wrong is her senior brother, who died young.

An immortal saves her, and Zhao Yingqi returns from the dead.

Thinking of her senior brother, she respectfully asks the immortal how she might save him.

After collecting the four divine pearls, she really does see her “senior brother.”

The “senior brother” changes from his former cold and distant self, pressing her at every turn and trying to draw her into love.

Zhao Yingqi never responds.

As he whispers sweet nothings in her ear, she hands him her sword and asks him to teach her the move she never managed to learn.

Only when the real Yun Shen appears does Zhao Yingqi nod to him through the softly falling snow, like a curtain of glistening crystals

“Thank you. But my senior brother is back now.”

4

After she dies for the second time, they go mad for her. Zhao Yingqi watches it all, but remains undistracted.

When the immortal, pure as snow on a mountaintop, comes looking for her from afar, she can hardly escape fast enough.

“Zhaozhao...”

Frost lingers between the immortal's brows.

He asks her in a low voice:

“Where else do you think you can run?”

-Reader's Guide-

1. The female lead has fallen for someone several times.

2. Her senior brother is Zhao Zhao's most devoted fan.

Theme: Growth is the best way to overcome every hardship and obstacle.