Why Isn't My Junior Brother Following the Plot?!

Thanks for your support! Here’s a preview of my next novel, The Whole Sect Thinks I’m Dead, at the very end.

Novel Blurb:

[Sharp-tongued, softhearted senior sister and master of snark x poisonous-tongued, arrogant junior brother]

Jiang Yu died at her computer desk after pulling an all-nighter at work.

When she opened her eyes again, she had transmigrated into an old-school cultivation novel about a chosen hero, as the sect’s lame senior sister.

She had to follow the plot of the original novel, Vanquish Demons, and play the senior sister of the Azure Nether Immortal Sect. After a chance encounter, she was supposed to fall in love at first sight with the original male lead, feel as if they had found each other too late, and fall deeply in love...

Then she was to embark on a devoted puppy-love journey and meet the tragic end of dying while taking a sword for the male lead.

Jiang Yu couldn’t help feeling that something was off.

She had a junior brother who had managed to offend everyone in the sect just by running his mouth.

In the original plot, the original heroine was his beloved, while her junior brother was the second male lead who loved her but couldn’t have her, eventually going mad during cultivation.

She’d thought it was a shame for such a handsome face to end up struck down by the original male lead’s Demon-Slaying Sword.

Then her junior brother opened his mouth and attacked without discrimination:

"A young woman has gone missing, and Senior Sister just has to go join the excitement?"

Jiang Yu: You can donate that mouth of yours. Thanks.

Later, when the original male lead was injured,

Jiang Yu hurried over to offer him warmth and comfort, but couldn’t shake the feeling that someone behind her was giving off a chill.

Then, when Jiang Yu had no choice but to step in front of the sword meant for the original male lead,

the once spirited young man asked her with reddened eyes:

"Do you really care about him that much?"

Ying Buwang:

"You’re not their senior sister."

You’re my senior sister.

Mine alone.

Someone once told me that all-consuming longing could be entrusted to the bright moon.

I looked up at the moon hanging high in the sky and couldn’t help laughing.

Poor moon, suspended on high,

it doesn’t shine on me alone.

Advance Preview:

Yu Zhao was the youngest sect leader on the entire continent.

She believed she had a bit of talent. From childhood, she had been exceptionally gifted, and her cultivation had faced almost no obstacles.

She reached the Deity Transformation realm at fifteen, and in just four years became one of the few Great Ascension cultivators on the continent. At twenty, she founded her own sect and became the youngest sect leader in history.

Some called her selfish and arrogant, reckless in her actions and utterly undisciplined.

But she had every reason to be proud and self-assured.

Yet it was that very arrogance

that made her the target of a calculated frame-up.

During the sealing of the Demon Realm,

Yu Zhao, overconfident, tried to seal it all by herself. Someone framed her, causing the demons inside the realm to scatter and plunge the world into chaos.

She was saddled with a baseless accusation,

and hunted down by a group of people who prided themselves on being righteous and noble.

Yu Zhao died

when everyone was cursing her.

The woman who had once been so brash and unruly

became a sinner condemned for all time.

Yu Zhao came back to life

when everyone was still cursing her,

when she had become the butt of their jokes.

The woman who had once been so arrogant and conceited

became the most insignificant person on the continent.

For the past nineteen years,

her world had consisted of endless cultivation.

Only when she began living for herself again

did she discover how much beauty the world held.

For instance, she made a group of chatty friends

from all corners of the world.

And she met a callow young man who spent his days doing nothing

and regarded her as the ideal person to emulate.

Oh, right.

Li Buyan still didn’t know

that Yu Zhao was the very idol he had always admired.

Whenever Yu Zhao heard Li Buyan praising her, she would simply smile.

Later, when the same situation unfolded again, Yu Zhao’s secret identity was exposed.

Those chatty friends of hers transformed overnight into her loyal and unwavering allies.

The young man sat on the cliff’s edge, letting the breeze brush his cheek and toss his hair ribbon into the air. He narrowed his eyes before asking, "Why didn’t you ascend back then?"

"Maybe I couldn’t bear to leave behind all the warmth and hardship of this world."

"There’s another reason. I’m not very ambitious."

She lowered her head, a smile on her lips, and joked,

"Better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of a phoenix. I was afraid I wouldn’t be able to handle the old men up there after I ascended."

Reading Guide:

[Reading Guide]

1. This story has plenty of original worldbuilding and isn’t orthodox cultivation.

2. The heroine cultivates by orthodox methods at first. Later, when her progress can’t keep up, she’ll find her own way to practice demonic cultivation.

3. The leads will join forces as equals later on.

4. One-on-one romance, both virgins. Emotionally and physically, the male lead loves only the female lead from beginning to end.

5. I’ll add more if I think of anything.

Theme: The early bird catches the worm.