Yun Chen was exceptionally gifted from a young age, and her swordsmanship was free and easy. A few years ago, by a twist of fate, she won second place at the number-one martial arts tournament in the jianghu. She was living the life of a winner, basking in the glory. As the saying goes, no one remembers how the runner-up left the stage. But Yun Chen really did hop off, because the title of top fighter in the world would inevitably attract all kinds of challengers.
Yun Chen waved a hand dismissively. "I'm not slacking off. This is called... hiding my true strength."
Then she was kidnapped while out and about, and came home with a sickly young man in tow.
Even after being robbed, the sickly young man tried to appeal to his attackers' better nature. Though he was sick and injured himself, he still tried to stand in front of her and play the hero. Yun Chen had never met such an idiot!
But the sickly guy was pretty handsome.
[Sickly Number One in the World x Clever Number Two in the World, who puts all her intelligence into slacking off]
Who could have guessed that when Yun Chen was injured one day, He Yu, whom everyone had always taken for a sickly invalid, would get angry for the first time?
If she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, Yun Chen couldn't have believed that the person before her, dressed in white as pure as snow, with a cool and elegant face and a long sword moving effortlessly in his hand, each move carrying the force of thunder, was the sickly He Yu she'd always talked about!
His swordsmanship was terrifying, powerful enough to destroy heaven and earth, and he was breathtakingly beautiful.
After a few rounds, the faces of those men had turned greener than vegetable leaves.
At dinner that night, Yun Chen finally couldn't hold back and asked, "Are you really a sickly invalid?"
He Yu paused with his chopsticks in hand and answered seriously, "Yes."
Yun Chen put down her bowl and chopsticks, full of curiosity. "Can you really use martial arts?"
"I've told you several times."
Yun Chen: ...
He Yu smiled at her and put a bite of food in Yun Chen's bowl. "But you never believed me."
Seeing that Yun Chen didn't look the least bit remorseful, he immediately put on a wronged expression. "So you never believed me?"
He sounded just like a little wife who'd been abandoned.
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Yun Chen returned to her sect, hoping to lie flat again, only to be told that her master had signed her up for the martial arts tournament.
Yun Chen:?
Three days later, Yun Chen, sporting dark circles, found He Yu. "Can you beat me to the ground at the tournament?"
He Yu:?
Yun Chen: "I've thought it over. The only way to stop people from challenging me is to lose to someone nobody's ever heard of."
Later, on the eve of their match, news spread that the Number One Sword in the World and the Number Two Sword in the World would meet midway through the tournament.
Yun Chen: "When did I agree to fight the Number One?"
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After the tournament, a saying spread through the jianghu: Who remembers the runner-up? Of course, the number one, who had such a fierce rivalry with the runner-up.
Theme: Justice always prevails.
