Qiao Mian transmigrates into the youngest disciple of Tianlian Sect.
The sect is shabby and obscure, but its people get along wonderfully, and her senior brothers and sisters all dote on her.
The eldest senior brother is dashing and charming, yet when he flies his sword to slay demons, he carefully protects the flowers he picked for Qiao Mian;
The second senior brother comes from a poor family and saves up spirit stones for months just to give Qiao Mian a hairpin she likes on her birthday;
The senior sister is always kind to others, but when Qiao Mian is bullied by another sect, she draws her sword, staining her sleeves with blood.
Everyone knows Tianlian Sect has a beloved treasure whom the whole sect dotes on.
Yet Qiao Mian falls hopelessly for a mortal.
She meets him while hunting demons down the mountain. Others say his meridians are severed and there's no saving him.
But Qiao Mian exhausts herself and suffers injuries all over to save him.
Her senior brothers and sisters lament that she has lost her mind. Only Qiao Mian knows he looks just like the unattainable crush she cherished back in school.
So cold, so far beyond her reach, like snow that has come down to earth for only a brief moment.
The day Qiao Mian carefully rises onto her toes to kiss him, he pushes her away.
That same day, the everlasting ice lotus in Tianlian Sect's Heavenly Pool is stolen.
It turns out he is Xie Huaishuang, the first disciple of the cultivation world's foremost sect.
And the whole thing was a scheme to steal the ice lotus and save his senior sister.
Qiao Mian is sentenced to fifty years of confinement at the foot of Bu Gui Mountain.
No one expects the demons and monsters of Bu Gui Mountain to riot at the end of her tenth year, costing her life.
Only when Qiao Mian awakens inside a soul lamp does she learn that her eldest senior brother is the son of the head of the cultivation world's most powerful clan, while her senior sister is a spirit herb who has taken human form.
One sacrifices centuries of cultivation and is cast out by his family; the other uses her true form as an offering, keeping the soul lamp alight for a hundred years, all to summon Qiao Mian's soul.
As for her second senior brother, he dies in the brutal battle to defeat the demon lord Xie Huaishuang.
On the day Qiao Mian marries her eldest senior brother, someone storms the wedding banquet.
A bloodstained sword lifts the veil covering her face. The once-cold eyes are now filled with madness. Trembling, he kneels before her and calls, "Mianmian."
Qiao Mian turns her hairpin into a sword and stabs him through the heart. "Don't call me that. You don't deserve to."
Xie Huaishuang lives his whole life surrounded by lies and schemes. Even when everyone turns against him and the whole world hunts him down, he never cries.
But at this moment, tears suddenly stream down his face.
Theme: Love and sacrifice