I Will Not Save This World

[Details to Be Revised, New Year, New Ideas]

The most cutthroat sect in the world is the XX Sect, and the most cutthroat person in the XX Sect is my senior brother.

I know this is a xianxia novel, and I also know my senior brother is the story's top villain.

He is not what he seems, sweet on the outside and dark within, honey-tongued but treacherous, abusing his good looks, stopping at nothing, and he's a yandere, too.

These days, when a great demon lord gets competitive, naturally there's no room for anyone else.

He smiled as he killed everyone who had ever wronged him.

- His master wiped out his entire family when he was young, so he killed his master.

- His martial aunt once abused his mother, so he killed her.

- The sect leader wanted to cripple his meridians and expel him from the sect, so he killed the sect leader.

- A disciple from the neighboring XX Sect spoke rudely and insulted his ancestors, so he leveled the XX Sect's mountain with a single strike.

But he was the only one who treated me well.

So when the whole world wanted him dead, when he was covered in curses, mired in disgrace, and infamous everywhere, I still stood in front of him.

I would carve him a path straight to the heavens.

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Later, my senior brother finally bent for me. He swept the demon caves clean for my sake, mended his wicked ways for me, and did every merciful deed under heaven for me.

And at last, I got my chance. On our wedding night, when he was at his most unguarded, I drove my sword into his heart and gave it a gentle twist.

Then, as he stared at me in shock, I let go of the hilt and sank to the floor. With red candles glowing and wedding drapes hanging around us, I burst out laughing.

I didn't come here to love you. I came here to kill you.

The night my senior brother fell to demonic cultivation.

He slaughtered all 315 people in Bu Gui Village.

One person escaped.

Me.

Senior Brother, you once said that when you pull up weeds, you have to get the roots. You've always believed in wiping out every last trace.

So how did you let me slip through?

Much later, I suddenly remembered something.

I was the one who fell to demonic cultivation and slaughtered the village that day. I was the one who killed everyone.

All these years, it was always my senior brother standing in front of me, sweeping away every blade aimed at me and shouldering every curse in the world for my sake.

He was Lord Youtian, a god who descended from the highest heavens of his own accord to seal me in the Guixu, and he was also the senior brother who had kept me company day and night for a thousand years across the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.

If not for me, he should have long since ascended to immortal rank, worshipped by countless people, enshrined by the world, seated upon the altar, and showing compassion for all under heaven.

Even this warm heart beating in my chest was given to me by my senior brother.

He stood between me and the Eight Lords of the Divine Court, the Twenty-Eight Constellations, the Forty-Nine Heavenly Generals, the hundred thousand celestial soldiers, and the thunder filling the sky.

He once said, If all living beings refuse to save you, then I will.

Senior Brother, Senior Brother.

Would you... save me one more time?

- First draft of the blurb, 2024.1.1

Theme: Love is the salvation of all things.