*A beautiful, ill-tempered young master with a cruel heart x a clueless, timid, unlucky junior sister
1. Yue Yang, heir to the Marquis of Yue, is seventeen and arrogant by nature. His beauty has made him famous throughout the capital, and wherever he goes, everyone dotes on him. Perhaps his life has been too smooth, so Heaven has decided to put him through some hardship.
Lately, Yue Yang has been seeing ghosts.
He got drunk at a banquet, and when he woke up, he could hear crying that no one else could hear.
The crying began every morning when he got up and went on for two whole hours. He searched everywhere but couldn't find the source, and the torment drove him to the brink of despair.
The entire Marquis of Yue's residence searched for renowned doctors, but none could cure him.
This went on for three months. Then one day, Yue Yang was on his way to visit a friend when he passed a narrow alley and heard the crying again.
He paid it no mind, assuming his phantom illness had flared up again, and walked away with his sword in hand.
Yue Yang played chess with his friend for nearly two hours. By the time he headed home, dusk was approaching, and he passed that same narrow alley again.
The crying was still going on, mournful and forlorn, echoing endlessly.
He assumed he was gravely ill and started home. But after walking a few steps, he suddenly realized...
The crying that had been ringing in his ears without pause had grown quieter.
2. The senior brother went down the mountain to hunt demons and hadn't returned in three months. His fellow disciples went down together to look for him, eventually reaching the capital.
Just then, a household in the capital was attacked by an evil creature, leaving people dead. The group worked together to capture the monster, but while taking turns keeping watch that night, their sleepy junior sister let it escape through her negligence.
Her fellow disciples were furious and refused to take her along again. Overcome with guilt, the junior sister went out alone to search for the demon, but somehow ended up in a dead-end alley and couldn't find her way out.
Yingshao was born unlucky. Whatever she tried to do, something was bound to go wrong, and spirits and monsters were especially fond of seeking her out. She wasn't allowed to leave her sect until she was fifteen. Now she was alone and trapped in a haunted alley. She was afraid she might not make it out alive.
She was so upset, angry at herself for being both stupid and unlucky, that she sat down and cried. She cried for two whole hours.
As she cried, a sword tip suddenly pressed against the back of her neck.
A sinister voice spoke in her ear: "Found you."
3.
To cure himself, Yue Yang decided to kill her. But when he raised his sword, some inexplicable force stopped him. No matter what he did, he couldn't stab her.
He refused to believe it, switching weapons three times and trying twenty-eight times, but he couldn't kill her.
The girl was so frightened that she started crying again.
He couldn't kill her, and he couldn't stand listening to her cry, so he had no choice but to solve the problem at its source.
Yue Yang clenched his fists, took three deep breaths, then asked through gritted teeth, "What are you crying about?"
She sobbed and wiped her tears. "I let the demon escape, and my senior brothers are angry with me..."
Before she'd even finished wiping her tears, a ringing sword cry sounded.
The junior sister looked up in confusion and saw the strikingly handsome young man in black draw his sword with a cold expression. He said softly, "If you agree to do one thing for me, I'll catch the demon for you."
"Please, please, don't cry anymore!"
One-line synopsis: A demon-hunting story.
Premise: Don't cry
