Junior Sister Never Overthinks

Everyone says Qing Buwan's junior sister is a little crazy.

Sometimes she seems completely unbothered. Even if someone slaps her, she doesn't mind. She just flattens herself and crawls away.

But other times she's like a hedgehog, going on all day about wanting to die while always feeling that someone else deserves to die more.

The senior brother of the Qiantian Academy tells her that the more capable you are, the more you should do. She says she's not capable.

When their junior fellow disciple's childhood sweetheart gets stolen away by some sudden new arrival, she tells him to look at it another way: why couldn't he become someone else's sudden new arrival and steal their childhood sweetheart?

The senior sister of the Discipline Hall comes to Qing Buwan to complain that their junior sister got into a brawl. Whenever she makes a mistake, she criticizes everyone else before comforting herself. The senior sister tells him to hurry up and take her home, before she corrupts the other children.

With the way the junior sister never wastes time worrying about herself, she can do anything in this treacherous, bloody world of cultivation. No one can touch her. Even their master can only marvel: How did you end up with a junior sister like that in our sect!

How did the junior sister go from being a people-pleaser to a people-punisher?

But he clearly remembers the day she first arrived at the academy, covered in blood and barely breathing, and the despair and unwillingness in her eyes, as though she stood on the edge of an abyss.

-2-

The first time Bei Gong Changfeng saw her, a heavy snow fell over Zhong'an City. He vaguely remembered hearing that the year she was born, an unprecedented blizzard had blanketed the capital of the Tianshu Kingdom.

The second time he saw her, she lowered her eyes and called him “Elder Brother.” He cautiously approached her step by step, but she always kept a proper distance.

He wasn't in a hurry. Patiently, he taught her to ride a sword and how to survive in the palace, where everyone schemed against one another. From then on, his presence was hidden in every move she made, every technique she used.

But later, fate sent them down two roads that would never cross.

The day he married was also the day she “died suddenly.” From then on, mountains and oceans lay between them. Even if they met again, they would be strangers.

“But the way she wields a sword, the way she turns it in her hand, still bears my mark.” Years later, he faced Qing Buwan across the starry sea of the Boundless South. “You're her senior brother, aren't you?”

“But what of it?”

“You came into her life too late.”

“Exactly. So what?” Qing Buwan wore the smile he hated most. “She has never belonged to anyone. You and I are merely scenery in her life. What does it matter whether we appeared sooner or later?”

“She has always belonged only to herself.”

“She has never lived in anyone's shadow.”

·

Don't be afraid. Before the swords and spears, before the rumors and slander, your senior brother will be there.

·

Also known as My Junior Sister Is Invincible Under Heaven

Her father, the emperor, named her Jishi Gui, meaning “return at the auspicious hour.” But it seemed no one, and nowhere, truly hoped she would return soon, until she left home and stepped into the wind and rain, into the world.

She is stubborn stone, wild fire. She stands alone amid fierce storms and finds the world through the battering of wind and frost.

·

Reader's Guide

1. A heroine who grows in both outward strength and inner resolve. A slow-burn progression story.

2. She doesn't stop overthinking from the start. She fights her way out of days when tears were mixed into every meal.

3. Political intrigue and war, academy life, sect competitions, secret-realm trials, a partly ensemble cast, and a comeback.

4. Both leads are sexually inexperienced, but the heroine attracts many admirers, including several male supporting characters with one-sided crushes. Please proceed with caution if that bothers you.

5. The cultivation world is not a traditional one.

Theme: The reward for not wearing yourself down is leaving a life like this.