Little Junior Sister Just Won't Listen

Complete. The serial in my column is The Substitute and the White Moonlight Started Fighting Over Me

[Clever, Cunning Little Sunshine Junior Sister x Stiff, Proud, Awkward Senior Brother]

[Standalone Arcs | Mystery and Supernatural Folklore | Ensemble Growth | Lighthearted Romance | Road Trip]

Three days after joining the sect, Jiang Nianshui had thoroughly offended her immortal-like eldest senior brother.

He was aloof and chaste, with a formidable presence. As a newly initiated disciple, Jiang Nianshui had no choice but to avoid his edge for the time being.

To maintain this false bond between fellow disciples, she decided to sweet-talk him properly.

Gifts and apologies: she was determined to bend when necessary and stand firm when she could.

But will someone tell her:

Why is this awkward guy, who's harder to placate than a child, getting more and more impossible to handle?

Until one day, Jiang Nianshui spread her hands. She couldn't get through to him anymore. She was done trying!

And so, Xie Daoyuan began his countdown to being ignored and spiraling into self-doubt:

Why isn't Junior Sister talking to me?

Is Junior Sister angry?

Does Junior Sister not like me anymore?!

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A divine decree arrives, and the Tianyu Mountain team is ordered down the mountain to eliminate demons.

Jiang Nianshui watches her teammates and falls silent...

A foul-mouthed, short-tempered senior brother who refuses to get up off the ground unless someone coaxes him?

A silly, sweet best friend who keeps eating but always pretends to be innocent?

A poker-faced bestie who has only one thought in her head and won't be swayed by anything?

A poisonous beauty who has to look in the mirror every day or she feels uncomfortable?

When corpses walk at night, flying heads descend, and poisonous insects swarm the land,

the group is left wide-eyed. Wait, people in this world are really getting up to all this?!

Senior Brother draws his sword. Attack!

The whole team takes a synchronized step back. You go first, Senior Brother!

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This is a journey to save the world, with every character getting their moment to shine.

They go from naive youth to shouldering heavy burdens, from clinging to their own convictions to standing together as one, from chance encounters to sharing life and death.

Each of them is one of a kind, dazzling and sharp-edged.

With their humble mortal forms, they defy fate, overcome desperate odds, and save the people.

Amid the long, dark nights of a troubled age, they burn with the passion of youth, hold fast to their original cultivation ideals, and bring peace to the land.

***The characters are not perfect.

(2025.4.12-2026.7.1)

* Upcoming story:

The Substitute and the White Moonlight Started Fighting Over Me

[Love and Hate | Substitute Romance]

Nian Yunluo loved Xie Buyan so much that she forgot she was a demon and willingly stayed by his side for eight whole years.

But Xie Buyan was pure and noble, free of worldly desires, with his heart set solely on the righteous path.

He was the one who destroyed everything between them.

From then on, she and Xie Buyan went their separate ways.

Later, she met a young man who, by a strange coincidence, bore a slight resemblance to him.

The wickedness in her heart quietly stirred, and she kept him...

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Thanks to his resemblance to Xie Buyan, Ting Lan was almost inseparable from Nian Yunluo.

He thought that would be enough,

but when that person appeared, he finally understood:

He was nothing more than a substitute with no name or status.