*
Jiang Yunnong has no parents. Her exceptional talent earns her entry into an immortal sect, but because she bears a demon’s bone, she is shunned.
One day, several fellow disciples mock and taunt her. Suddenly, a spring breeze drifts by, carrying the faint fragrance of peach blossoms across the grove.
She looks up to see someone perched on a tree branch, smiling with unruly delight. With nothing but a peach twig in hand, he unleashes a sword aura as brilliant as a flash of light, sending the disciples who bullied her scattering in disarray.
Seeing her stunned expression, he raises an eyebrow, all youthful confidence and carefree charm. “My name is Xie Fushu. I’m your senior brother.”
Jiang Yunnong has lived her whole life alone. Xie Fushu is an unexpected twist of fate.
Her senior brother is peerlessly elegant and boldly uninhibited. He respects and protects her, tends her wounds and ties up her hair, and gifts her a whole city’s worth of fireworks. When she looks down on herself, he gazes at her with smiling, beautiful phoenix eyes and says, “Your talent surpasses even mine, junior sister. Your heart is like the moon, unique and peerless.”
Only later does she learn that Xie Fushu is a spy sent by the demon clan into the immortal sect.
He respects her only because Jiang Yunnong was born with demonic seeds and, given time, could command a million demons.
He protects her only because he is waiting for her demon bone to awaken, so she will turn against the immortal sect and fall into evil, restoring the demon clan to power.
On the day their bond is severed, they clash swords, fighting to the death.
Jiang Yunnong cuts out her own demon bone and unexpectedly awakens a pure sword physique. Free of all restraints, she breaks through her cultivation and attains enlightenment in a single stroke.
Xie Fushu falls from a cliff, gravely wounded. His last look at her is cold and mocking. All he says is, “Your swordsmanship is pretty good.”
Jiang Yunnong knows he is selfish and heartless, knows he is vile and filthy. What she doesn’t know is that on that day, Xie Fushu destroyed his cultivation to strip away his own sword physique and transfer it into her bloodline.
Born in the demon realm and subjected to years of humiliation, he may be a cold-hearted viper, filthy as mud, but he wants to become the spring breeze from their first meeting and send her soaring along the path to immortality.
*
They meet again several years later.
Jiang Yunnong has become renowned throughout the Nine Provinces, radiating clarity and grace. Xie Fushu is pale and gaunt. Just from the killing intent that spills out when she draws her sword, he coughs up a few streaks of red.
“No need for junior sister to lift a finger. I wouldn’t have lived much longer anyway.”
He wipes the blood from his lips as if it were nothing and gives a lazy smile. “Oh, I nearly forgot. I’m no longer your senior brother.”
[Reader’s Guide]
1. Happy ending. A tsundere, gloomy heroine caught between love and hate × a seemingly frivolous but truly lovesick, sickly-beautiful senior brother.
2. Sweet and sour, with both of them devoted to each other and finding warmth together. He’ll suffer, but this isn’t a groveling redemption arc, okay? They’re both completely in love XD
3. The story begins after their reunion, with lots of flashbacks.
Theme: Perseverance in the face of adversity
