Yu Zhendian is the only daughter of the sect leader of the greatest sword sect in the world. Born with a spiritual body, she is beloved by all things under heaven and can see a person's life, death, and future at a glance.
Everyone in the sect dotes on Yu Zhendian and indulges her, treating her like a precious little ancestor. This includes everyone from the aloof, beautiful Great Elder to the junior outer-sect disciple who sweeps the grounds, and even the spirits of the immortal swords.
But the little ancestor is unhappy, because she has seen how their stories end: every one of them becomes a whetstone for the Son of Heaven's Dao.
Her lively twin junior sisters, who love finding tasty food and fun things to do, are targeted after going down the mountain to play. Their swords and spirit stones are stolen, and they are thrown off a cliff, their fate unknown.
Her gentle, smiling senior sister dies tragically in the wilds after being set up while avenging her junior sister.
Her radiant, headstrong fifth senior sister is deceived by a scoundrel and accidentally reveals the sect's weaknesses.
Her quiet, refined little junior sister is drugged and turned into a puppet.
Even the Great Elder, who has lived in seclusion for years, is slandered as having gone mad while cultivating the Heartless Dao and practicing demonic arts with the flesh and blood of her fellow disciples. In the end, this gives the Son of Heaven's Dao a reputation as a demon-slayer.
Her mother, the sect leader, and all the other elders and disciples are doomed too. Even Yu Zhendian herself has her eyes gouged out and her bones taken.
Thinking of what awaits them all, Yu Zhendian slaps her chubby hand on the table and vows to change their fates.
The junior sisters are acting up? Send them to train in the Sword Cavern. They can't take one step out until an immortal sword acknowledges them.
The fifth senior sister has fallen for a man? Send her to the library to read a thousand stories about women being abandoned by scumbags.
All the other senior and junior sisters are getting a makeover too!
And then...
The chubby little girl reaches out for her eldest senior sister to pick her up, shouting, "Senior Sister, let's not bother with those silly junior brothers."
But in the blink of an eye, the little one finds herself in the arms of the Great Elder, who is famous for her aloof, heartless nature. The Great Elder gently cradles her and coos, "It's only the Heartless Dao. I can give it up if I want to."
"Good girl, whatever you want me to cultivate from now on, I'll learn it."
Yu Zhendian blinks and replies in her baby voice, "I want candied hawthorns."
The Great Elder, hailed as a once-in-a-million-years sword cultivator, the greatest cultivator in the Nine Provinces, and as elegant and aloof as a lotus, falls silent for a moment before making a decision that defies her ancestors.
She will take a mortal candied-hawthorn seller as her master!
And make candied hawthorns for the little one!
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