The Great Way is as clear as the blue sky, yet I alone cannot reach it.
From a young age, Meng Yunqi often dreamed of swirling white mist and a figure with a sword whose image lingered in her mind.
She sought out a sword sect on Mount Qingcheng and apprenticed herself there. After a century of arduous cultivation, she finally glimpsed a fragment of the Heavenly Dao. She was the least accomplished disciple in the sect, with the worst talent, yet she had cultivated the hardest, day in and day out, for a decade. Just as she was about to begin preparing for ascension, several bolts of thunder came crashing down, burning away her years of cultivation and her physical body alike.
Only then did she learn that she was burdened by a grave sin in her fate. She was forbidden from transcending the mortal world and could never become an immortal.
All those hopes and all that perseverance over the past hundred years had been nothing but a trap tailor-made for her.
She thought she would be reduced to ashes, but her body was rebuilt and the Heavenly Dao began anew. Meng Yunqi awakened to her true destiny. She traveled back through the mortal world; everything in the past was as though it had died yesterday, and everything ahead was as though it had only just begun.
She was the only daughter of the Imperial Emperor and Empress, carried the sole token of the Immortal Realm's Holy Son, and was the first near-immortal in centuries to win the favor of the Supreme Sovereign. She was also a fated woman blessed with an extraordinary destiny.
Given a fresh start with everything at her disposal, all Meng Yunqi wanted was to be by that person's side.
"Xiao Qi, your senior brother wishes you peace and happiness, and hopes even more that you'll follow the Dao and become an immortal."
"If the Heavenly Dao forsakes you, then I'll forsake it too. If my Fuying Sword breaks, I'll die with it. We can always start over."
Pairing: Aloof, devoted senior brother who gives everything x single-minded junior sister who pursues the Dao and is a bit of a blockhead, one-on-one, both leads are each other's only one.
Content warning: The heroine's golden finger is maxed out, but she's relatively weak at first (and gets beaten up a lot). Don't read if that bothers you. The author's imagination is limited and they're sensitive to criticism. This isn't a traditional cultivation novel, and many of the settings are made up by the author, so please don't nitpick and be kind. More details will be added if anything else comes to mind.
Theme: No matter how difficult your circumstances are, never give up.
