01
During a mission outside her jurisdiction, the immortal official Liu Yanru was set up and fell into a deadly formation.
When she regained consciousness, she had entered someone else's body.
Liu Ying, a daughter of a prominent family, had been frail since birth, constantly sickly, with blocked spiritual meridians.
Revenge aside, Liu Yanru couldn't even use spiritual power. Frustrated by this, she went to sleep one day and suddenly found herself back in her own body.
From then on, she spent half the day as Liu Yanru and half as Liu Ying.
02
The Liu family held a "Disciple Selection Banquet."
Prominent families threw lavish banquets, inviting immortal officials to attend. Then they used money and influence to send their children under the tutelage of an immortal lord, strengthening their descendants' spiritual lineages.
Liu Yanru had never cared to attend such banquets.
But this time, appearing as Liu Ying, she met someone she knew:
her disciple, or rather, former disciple, Xue Rangchen.
Xue Rangchen had studied under her for five years before his family took him away and placed him under a higher-ranking immortal official.
They had never met again after that.
They were no longer master and disciple, but seeing him join the struggle for fame and fortune left Liu Yanru unable to hide her disappointment. At the banquet, she reprimanded him for "talking back."
The head of the Liu family apologized and sent her away from the disciple selection banquet.
Liu Ying had no talent, and had never been someone the Liu family planned to send away.
Yet less than a quarter of an hour after she left, a servant hurried over to her, astonished.
"Lord Xue has chosen you as his disciple."
Liu Yanru: ...?
03
While investigating a murderer, Liu Yanru ran into Xue Rangchen.
Still disguised as dead and wearing a mask, she could only avoid him. Unexpectedly, in the darkness, Xue Rangchen seemed to recognize her silhouette and chased after her.
"Liu Yanru!" he cried, reaching to grab her arm.
They fought. After defeating him, Liu Yanru quickly fled.
When she awoke in Liu Ying's body, it was already late at night. She crept outside and saw Xue Rangchen, drunk, in the courtyard.
His face was twisted with pain, his eyes red and on the verge of tears, yet a camellia lay in his palm. Nurtured by spiritual energy, it shone with the radiance of moonlit snow.
"...Master."
Murmuring with his head bowed, he gently touched his lips to the petals.
It was a camellia she had once kept in her pocket dimension. Before Xue Rangchen left, she had cut off and discarded a dead branch, but he had kept it.
It was also the only thing he had been able to secretly take with him back then.
Reader's Guide:
1. This is not orthodox cultivation fantasy, and includes a great many original elements. The setting is an immortal clan society, and that is what they aim to overthrow.
2. Female master, male disciple.
Theme: Don't lose yourself in a false dawn. Hold on to the light of the flame.
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