A Handsome, Kindhearted Big Brother Who Understands You

----Seeking saves for the upcoming novel, Today, Fairy Qin Is Also Trying to Escape. The blurb is below this one.----

When Jiang Wannian was six, she visited Nethernight Valley with her parents and met Shang Li, a beautiful, frail young woman.

When they parted, Shang Li gave her a piece of spiritual bamboo. For the next ten years, Jiang Wannian used it to exchange letters with Shang Li.

During those ten years, Jiang Wannian told Shang Li everything,

including how she and Song Yinghuai, the young master of the neighboring sect, went from loathing each other to falling in love.

But just as their families were considering a match, Song Yinghuai rescued a frail young woman and kept putting off exchanging their innate spiritual energy.

He kept putting it off until they entered the Immortal Palace Academy.

On the day classes began, Jiang Wannian and that young woman fell into the Cold Spirit Pool.

As she watched Song Yinghuai swim desperately toward the delicate figure about to sink beneath the water, Jiang Wannian, bound hand and foot and around the neck by the cold spirit, couldn't even cry for help.

Just as she accepted that she was going to die, a strong arm wrapped around her waist and pulled her upward.

Sunlight passed through the rippling water, and she saw a piece of green spiritual bamboo, identical to the one in her hand, hanging from the neck of the person carrying her, right below his prominent Adam's apple.

And beneath his water-soaked clothes was a flat chest.

Before she passed out, Jiang Wannian had just one thought:

I'm doomed. I really am going to die. Otherwise, how could I be so delirious that I mistook this male cultivator for Sister Shang Li?

Qin Shangli climbed the steps built from the blood of his fellow disciples, ascending one step at a time to become the young valley master.

The piece of green jade bamboo he had given away at eleven had pulled him back from the brink of collapse and demonic cultivation countless times.

The girl at the other end of the bamboo kept chattering to him about her happiness, joys, worries, and troubles,

giving Qin Shangli, trapped in the abyss, a fleeting taste of the warmth of the human world,

until that girl said she had fallen for someone.

Scheming, dark-hearted male lead x sunny, optimistic female lead

1. The calculating childhood friend who arrives later wins the heroine's heart.

2. For much of the early story, the heroine thinks of the male lead as her best girlfriend.

----Upcoming novel: My White Moonlight Has Come Back from the Dead!----

Qin Ding died from working overtime and transmigrated into a nobody in a cultivation sect.

A nobody was fine. She could cultivate in peace, and it was okay if her progress was slow. After all, she wasn't the only slow cultivator in the vast cultivation world.

But on the eve of the Cultivation Alliance's campaign against the Demon Abyss, she never expected her sect to dress her up with a shiny golden trim and push her forward.

"This disciple cultivates diligently and works diligently. Though her cultivation is not high, she is genuinely reliable and honest, making her a perfect fit for our sect's principles. She is one of our key disciples, and will surely contribute to the Cultivation Alliance's campaign against the Demon Abyss!"

Qin Ding found the speech, riddled with the word "crap," strangely familiar. She vaguely remembered being pushed forward by her boss in her previous life to take on a mountain of crap no one else wanted. She had worked overtime to meet the deadline and died at her desk.

Did they expect her to repeat the same mistake in this life? No way!

If they were forcing her to join some alliance and die in a campaign, then they couldn't blame her for throwing a wrench into the works!

Qin Ding soon found her first potential ally.

She hooked an arm around the handsome young man sent as cannon fodder by another sect. He had clear eyes and looked like a naive sweetheart. In a low voice, she said, "Fellow cultivator, did you know the Demon Lord actually had his reasons back then? The Cultivation Alliance was the one that wronged him first!"

The young cultivator seemed unused to being close to others. His face flushed, and he shifted slightly away from her, though his curious eyes blinked at her. "How so?"

Qin Ding smiled inwardly. He'd taken the bait.

A thousand-mile dam can be destroyed by an ant's nest. To defeat someone, first attack their heart!

She would show the Cultivation Alliance what it meant when "the people's hearts are scattered, and the team is impossible to manage"!

When Demon Lord Xu Yang heard that the Cultivation Alliance was joining forces with the great sects of the world to attack him in the Demon Abyss, he raised an eyebrow. Then he left a letter saying he was going into seclusion for his subordinates and transformed into a disciple of a small sect, infiltrating the elite coalition formed by the Cultivation Alliance.

After all, watching the Cultivation Alliance make a fool of itself was his favorite pastime.

Who could have guessed that before long, a female cultivator would sling an arm around his shoulders and ask if he knew the Cultivation Alliance had wronged the Demon Lord?

He immediately became wary. Had the Cultivation Alliance seen through his identity and sent this woman to test him?

He sneered inwardly and played along, waiting for her to reveal her true intentions.

But he waited and waited, until he discovered that this woman had quietly established a small squad among the lowest-ranking cultivators, right under the Cultivation Alliance's nose.

And the squad's goal and guiding principle were:

What the hell do the disputes between the great cultivators of the Cultivation Alliance and the demonic path have to do with us honest little cultivators? You fight your fight. We're out of here!

Well, well. So she really was just trying to run away!

* An office-worker heroine always looking for a chance to grab her bucket and flee VS a Demon Lord who smiles in public but is deeply twisted behind closed doors

* Sincerity is the ultimate weapon. Today, Qin Ding is once again sincerely plotting her escape.

Theme: Keep reaching for the light, even in adversity