[A little troublemaker who reaches for the stars and plays hooky x A stoic, ancient ancestor who rings like a bell with every blow]
Among the Yuan family of the Central Lands, their little ancestor Yuan Jixing is better known for her refined tastes than for her strength.
Treasures that people across the world fight over are toys she tosses aside during her first-birthday grab ceremony.
Rare elixirs that great clans struggle to obtain are bait she pours into a pond for her pets.
As the pass sealed off from the Demon Realm for a thousand years is about to open, cultivators hurry off to slay demons. The little ancestor excitedly starts packing her bags to go out...
Sightseeing!
No one can stop her or persuade her to stay. After days of worrying himself sick, her great-grandfather finally remembers that the late Old Master Yuan arranged a childhood betrothal for her years ago.
As it happens, the man is an unparalleled sword cultivator from Peng Mountain, and an ancestor of his sect.
A lifelong bachelor for two hundred years, with eyes only for his life-bound sword.
Want to cancel the engagement? Fine.
Take her to the Demon Realm, bring her back, and make sure she eats, drinks, and enjoys herself without shedding a single tear. Then the engagement is off.
After cultivating until he was on the verge of immortality, he suddenly learned that he had been promised in marriage as a child. No matter. She was merely a drop of morning dew on a leaf along his path to immortality, sure to fall with a flick.
Later...
Who says a fiancée isn't a wife? We can get married even after we break it off.
[Marriage Advice Desk]
[Question]: My fiancé cultivates the Path of Ruthlessness and can't perform in bed. What should I do?
[Answer 1]: Keep him around until New Year's, then dump him!
[Answer 2]: Kill your husband to prove your Dao, then dump him!
[Answer 3]: It's the cultivation era. It can be treated. Dump him!
[Answer 220]: It's not the Path of Ruthlessness, and he can perform. Don't dump him.
[Answer 260]: Is the real person here? Is the questioner still alive? Dump him!
[Questioner]: Right, it's not (’- ’)_(:3"∠ )_ (╯+ - +)╯┻━┻
[An Imaginary Bonus Scene]
A disciple of the Wenxian Sect: "The heavens are jealous of talent! The heavens want me dead! May I be struck by lightning! The young lady of the Yuan family is already engaged! They barely know each other. Forcing a match won't bring happiness! Don't you agree, Ancestor?"
One of the people involved, an ancestor of a certain sect who had just met the other party that morning, pondered.
"Do I... agree?"
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That night, he replaced his bedtime reading, Cultivated Today?, which he used as a pillow every night, with The Daily Life of Jixing.
1. A devoted 1v1 with a happy ending, half romance and half plot. A short, sweet story, about 80-90% sugar. All sugar makes you wilt, I mean.
2. The engagement came about because the two Old Masters were contemporaries and arranged a childhood betrothal for their descendants. The heroine's family line is Old Master Yuan - Great-grandfather - Grandfather - Father - Heroine. The male lead's sect line is Old Master Bai - Male lead.
3. Jixing means the North Star. The heroine's childhood name, Baiyu, also refers to a star. Baicang means autumn, and the male lead's childhood name, Mintian, also refers to autumn. Naming is difficult, so I'm relying on the profound depth of Chinese culture!
4. Blurb captured on 2025.05.20
Theme: Reach up and pluck the stars.
