In the third year after attaining sainthood, a new junior sister arrived at Floating Cloud Peak.
Xie Zhuoqing vaguely recalled that before she embarked on the path of the Ruthless Dao, she too had once had a junior sister.
The new junior sister was cheerful, steadfast in her Daoist heart, and kindhearted. Everyone in the sect adored her.
Xie Zhuoqing's junior sister had been malicious and hypocritical, all bluster and utterly useless.
Xie Zhuoqing knew it was her fault. When had her junior sister started turning into someone like that? In the end, it was all because she, the senior sister, had failed her.
In the eighteenth year after her junior sister's death, Xie Zhuoqing remembered her name.
"A Yao, don't be afraid. Let your sword follow the wind. If you really lose control, just call for your senior sister. I'll catch you."
She had said that once, hadn't she? But it had been many years ago.
The malicious junior sister × the heroine of a feel-good story, the senior sister. Their roles in the story matter.
When Xie Zhuoqing first learned she was the heroine of a tragic novel, she thought she wanted revenge.
Only later did she realize she didn't hate her junior sister.
But by then, her junior sister was already dead. Their grudges from life had vanished like smoke.
She had once vowed that they would fight to the death, and sure enough, in death her junior sister let it end. She had set aside her worldly attachments, comprehended the path to eternal life, and repaid her sect's kindness with her life.
Only Xie Zhuoqing was left with what her junior sister owed her, unpaid when she died.
What a hateful junior sister.
How could she not hate her?
Also known as "Reborn: My Junior Sister Loves Me Once More"
"From the Junior Sister's Perspective: That Cocky Senior Sister Came Charging Over, Talking About Bonds and Love"
"By the Time She Realized She Loved Her, She Was Already Dead"
"I Don't Hate You for Trying to Kill Me. I Hate You for Dying"
Theme: So this is what it means for one's Daoist heart to be complete: to have no lingering attachments in this world, and to attain eternal life through the Great Dao. If I could return to my youth and go back to Floating Cloud Peak, letting her test her sword against the peak once more, I wouldn't want the endless Great Dao or an unshakable Daoist heart. I would only want her to look up at me, for this fleeting moment.