Xu Ling decided to find someone to practice dual cultivation with.
She had a rare cultivation constitution, the Fire Tempering Body, and her path of cultivation was incredibly difficult. By chance, she discovered that Senior Brother Ji, the strongest among their peers, had an equally useless constitution: the Ice Tempering Body.
An ancient book said that these two useless constitutions would both suffer if separated, but thrive together.
Xu Ling couldn't sit still.
So she sought out Senior Brother Ji and explained what she had in mind.
At the top of the stairs, icy coldness emanated from Senior Brother Ji as he spat out a frosty, "Get lost."
Xu Ling left.
But she wanted to improve too badly. During an incident that trapped them in a secret chamber, with Senior Brother Ji exhausted, she took out the ancient Hehuan Sect book she'd prepared in advance and approached him with a sinister look. "Senior Brother, now you have no choice but to give in, right?"
Xu Ling and Senior Brother Ji maintained a healthy and harmonious relationship.
Senior Brother Ji still treated her coldly as usual, and Xu Ling remained as respectful as ever. Even on their agreed-upon cultivation days, she kept her eyes and ears closed and never crossed the line.
Once she found the right method, her cultivation advanced by leaps and bounds, and handsome men kept coming her way. But as she headed toward the pinnacle of life, one thing kept bothering her: Did Senior Brother Ji seem to hate her more and more?
A junior brother throws himself into her arms for comfort, and Senior Brother Ji glares at them like he wants them dead.
A shy little tree spirit gives her fruit, and Senior Brother Ji glares at them like he wants them dead.
A young man she saved offers himself to her, and Senior Brother Ji glares at them like he wants them dead.
Xu Ling (trembling): "..." I never want to run into him anywhere else again.
Xu Ling felt that something had been off lately.
At some point, her master had started sighing at her, her junior brothers and sisters had begun giving her meaningful looks, and people from all walks of life had started pointing at her and whispering.
Xu Ling was baffled. "What crime did I commit?"
Everyone: "You deceived Senior Brother, acted irresponsibly, and seduced him only to abandon him!"
"I'm innocent! We were just partners!"
Wait, who leaked this? How did the news get out?
Later, when people talked about Ji Wen, it changed from:
"Wow! He's Senior Brother Ji, who can defeat the whole world with a single sword strike of Frostfall! Amazing!"
to:
"Wow! He's Senior Brother Ji, the one Senior Sister Xu seduced and abandoned! How pitiful!"
Ji Wen: Not bad. I'm reasonably satisfied.
Xu Ling: ?
Both virgins, mutual attraction, mutual pining, one-on-one romance
Theme: Where there's a will, there's a way
