Jiang Luyu had plenty of experience picking people up.
On her first day in Shu, she found a wounded boy curled up among the dead leaves in a miasma-choked forest. His damp eyelashes made him look like an abandoned calico kitten. In a hoarse voice, he called to her, "Big sister."
Half a month later, she happened upon bandits causing trouble in the mountains. She stormed their stronghold alone, then found a young girl inside, dressed in bizarre clothes.
The girl wore a floral dress and had a bob that fell to her shoulders. A white bag hung at her waist, filled with strange objects Jiang Luyu had never heard of.
The girl wasn't quite right in the head, and kept muttering things Jiang Luyu couldn't understand.
Later, Jiang Luyu realized that the boy often vanished without a trace, and wherever he went, swarms of venomous snakes appeared.
Then one day, she saw the frail, delicate boy in the bamboo grove, killing a scholar who had been traveling with them with one hand around his throat.
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Xi Li first saw Jiang Luyu at a martial arts tournament.
The second time was after he had been ambushed and lost all his inner strength, when a girl descended from the sky.
He quietly hid his weapon, his sleeve covering the venomous snake coiled around his forearm. When he looked up, all that remained in his eyes was fear. "Big sister, I'm scared."
Before long, a chatty young girl appeared at her side, winning her heart with all kinds of strange objects.
Not long after that, a poor scholar on his way to the capital to sit the imperial exams showed up, and the girl fussed over him, tending to his every need.
So many people. Kill one, and another shows up. It never ends.
As the scales tipped and the heavens opened in a downpour, he carried a lamp into her room. The love worm inside the girl had taken effect, and her whole body was burning hot.
Xi Li knelt beside the bed and kissed her lips. "Big sister, you shouldn't have run away."
[Upright to the point of wickedness, the light of the righteous path x a scheming, tea-sipping Miao boy]
An alternate world, entirely fictional and unrelated to reality.
Theme: Keep your passion alive and brave the storm
