[A cool, slow-to-react rogue cultivator devoted to the Dao x a sharp-tongued but soft-hearted, hopelessly lovesick Sword Immortal]
As a half-demon, You Xueci had always had a bad reputation.
She had no parents, no sect, and a cold temperament that made it hard for her to get along with others. After the great demon who raised her died, she could only make a living by taking on shady jobs that the major sects preferred to keep hidden.
Whether it was entering dangerous secret realms to collect rare treasures or helping someone take revenge and seize their enemy's possessions, she accepted every job that came her way.
All this made her even more unwelcome among the cultivators beneath Hegao Mountain.
You Xueci didn't care.
She had been born with little feeling for others. The only thing she cared about was the way of the sword.
No matter how many cultivators or prodigies were lost during the high-risk missions she took, she always survived, somehow, and was often the sole survivor.
She was constantly on the brink of death, and injuries were part of daily life, but she just thought she was lucky and would always find something unexpected along the way.
The great sects and clans grew suspicious. A single wanted notice was issued, and she was hunted from every direction. In the end, A Ci was no match for them and was imprisoned in an underground palace for a hundred years.
As her soul was about to scatter, You Xueci heard in a daze that the most troublesome person she had ever encountered in her life, the world-famous young Sword Immortal Ji Chaoxue, had a dimming life lantern and was in grave danger...
To have such a prodigy join her in death would make this life worthwhile.
*
When she opened her eyes again, You Xueci had somehow become the unpopular junior sister of the Hantian Sect, the useless youngest daughter the sect leader had just found, and a pawn already chosen to marry Ji Chaoxue, who had become a cripple.
According to legend, Ji Chaoxue, young master of the Xirang Ji clan, was a peerless genius, the most unattainable figure in the White Jade Capital.
A genius sword cultivator like him had, a hundred years ago, been bewitched by the demoness You Xueci. After willingly letting her stab him through with her sword, he dragged his broken body into the underground palace to seize her, even breaking with his former friends and family.
In the end, he lost all his cultivation and was left on the brink of death. He survived by sheer luck, but could no longer hope to ascend. It seemed he had remained unconscious ever since.
His family considered it a disgrace. After much deliberation, they sent him to the remote Extreme Heaven Snow Domain and planned to find him a wife, to settle the debt from the past, when he had once protected her.
You Xueci: ? When did I stab the so-called Sword Immortal Ji Chaoxue through? It was clearly just a minor wound!!!
She thought it over and over, then finally understood.
If he wasn't just coasting on his reputation, then he was trying to scam her!
You Xueci decided to ask him to his face.
*
Ji Chaoxue: I have someone I love. When I saw that sword strike of hers, I finally understood what the true way of the sword was, and what a true opponent was. You Xueci, you must not die, even if it costs me my life.
You Xueci: ...Oh no. He looks so refined and proper, so how is he crazier than the spirit monkeys of Hegao Mountain?
[First draft of the blurb, screenshot dated 2024-12-23]
Theme: The bluebird calls spring, undeterred by wind and snow
