- A sheltered young lady who rides on a tiger’s coattails x a proud and arrogant peerless sword immortal -
Ren Pingsheng’s name is known to everyone in the martial world. He plays the flute beautifully and is the only sword immortal of his generation. People call him the Jade Flute Sword Immortal.
Rumor has it that he’s solitary, moody, and always giving people dirty looks. He’s terrible at dealing with others.
After hearing all about his misdeeds, Li Xi, who has been raised in the inner quarters since childhood, decides the world outside is a real mixed bag. She sighs, “I can’t believe someone like that could become a sword immortal. It’s incredible.”
Ren Pingsheng, who happens to be sitting on Li Xi’s roof: ...
Later, Ren Pingsheng rescues Li Xi from kidnappers in just a few moves and puts her up at his own inn.
On the way back to the capital, they ride in silence, surrounded by awkwardness. Ren Pingsheng searches his mind for a topic, then finally asks, “I accidentally overheard you saying that someone like me could become a sword immortal. May I ask, what kind of person am I?”
He swears he’s just asking out of curiosity. He isn’t threatening her at all.
But Li Xi, who wasn’t even afraid when she was kidnapped, thinks he’s bringing up the past to get back at her. Her legs go weak, and she sinks to the ground.
Ren Pingsheng, already several steps ahead, realizes the young lady has disappeared. He looks back, then walks toward her step by step.
Li Xi: I’m done for. I’m going to die here.
But he turns toward the roadside and plucks a flower instead.
When he returns, crouches down, and offers her the deep pink balsam flower, Li Xi suddenly notices the bright moon, the utter stillness, and the sound of cicadas.
She is shamefully smitten.
Much later, Li Xi decides that he isn’t strange at all.
He’s simply bad at reading people.
Theme: Love that grows slowly and steadily.
