Reborn as My Useless Little Brother

[Clear-headed, cold-hearted, max-level fighter x Secretly in love for two lifetimes, consumed by longing]

Xie Qingchang was a once-in-a-thousand-years genius of the immortal sects, but just as he was about to ascend, he was ambushed and left without a trace of his remains.

Everyone said that

Sword Venerable Xie had lived freely as the wind. He was the idol of every young man in the Three Realms and the dream lover of every young woman.

But he had one stain on his reputation:

His twin brother was a laughingstock throughout the Three Realms.

Apart from their looks, they had nothing in common.

One had a Heaven-grade spirit root and was a mighty cultivator in the late Deity Transformation stage, just one step away from ascension;

The other had a Mystic-grade spirit root and was a useless low-level cultivator who had spent a century stuck in the late Foundation Establishment stage.

One had gone alone into the Lesser Paradise and emerged unscathed despite being besieged by the Seven Demon Lords, the greatest sword cultivator under heaven;

The other was the weakest disciple of Guiyun Sect, needing his fellow disciples' help just to go down the mountain and hunt low-level demons.

Xie Qingchang prided himself on having lived his life without wronging heaven, earth, or any living soul, and without betraying his own heart.

So when he looked at Xie Jiangshui's face in the mirror, he found himself facing the greatest dilemma of his past and present lives.

From the sect leader down to the disciples who swept the floors, nobody at Guiyun Sect thought highly of him.

Everyone said that without Xie Qingchang, Xie Jiangshui would soon be expelled from the sect.

The only person who truly treated him well was Xie Jiangshui's frail master.

After living two lifetimes, Xie Qingchang, once revered by everyone, was experiencing the feeling of being cared for for the first time.

Whenever he practiced his sword beneath the moon, Shen Yueshi would sit quietly beside him and watch.

Shen Yueshi watched Xie Qingchang with such rapt attention that Xie Qingchang felt inexplicably guilty:

He had taken over Xie Jiangshui's body.

Later, two Sword Venerables emerged from the Xie clan.

The new Sword Venerable cleaved Mount Guiming in two with a single strike, led the immortal sects in destroying eighty thousand wraiths, and dispelled a thousand years of demonic miasma from Mount Fumo.

After all this, Xie Qingchang decided to return the body to Xie Jiangshui.

Before doing so, he went to find Shen Yueshi, intending to tell him the truth.

But he found Shen Yueshi sitting alone by the lake, gazing at him in a daze beneath the moonlight:

"I've waited for you through two lifetimes. Are you still going to leave me in the end?"

Everyone said the Three Realms had two great regrets:

First, the Sword Venerable ascended after just a hundred years, only to die and have his soul destroyed;

Second, Immortal Wangshu's old ailment never healed, and he was destined to perish.

Everyone felt sorry for him. Only Shen Yueshi knew that he was not suffering from a chronic illness. He was lovesick to the core, beyond all cure.

No one knew that after hearing of that person's death, the only thing that kept him going was the thought of passing on everything he had learned to his disciple

Because the boy was not only his own disciple, but also that person's younger brother.

Until one day, he saw his hopeless disciple practicing swordsmanship beneath the moon

And casually perform a sword form he had recalled countless times in his mind, one invented by that person and so difficult that countless sword cultivators could practice their whole lives without mastering it.

[Reading Guide]

1. Gong POV, younger gong, 1v1, mutual pampering

2. The gong is at the peak of combat ability and cold-hearted. The shou has been secretly in love with the gong for a very long time. Before the gong was reborn, the two had never formally met.

3. The twins' names come from the line: "I know love endures as long as I live; I gaze sadly at the river's flowing waters."

4. Cultivation stages: Qi Refining - Foundation Establishment - Golden Core - Nascent Soul - Spirit Severing - Deity Transformation - Ascension

5. Spirit root grades: Heaven - Earth - Mystic - Yellow

Theme: Strive tirelessly to improve