A Sword, Stars, and Ten Thousand Ages of Star Poetry

In this world, everyone awakens a sword spirit at the age of four.

Sword spirits are appointed by the Heavenly Dao, destined to be one's sole cultivation partner and beloved for life.

Everyone is cherished by heaven and earth. Only Lu Xingci is an outcast rejected by the heavens.

As the clan leader's legitimate daughter, she was shackled with the burden of becoming the future heir from the moment she was born.

But she never wanted to be clan leader. All she wanted was a peaceful life.

Her mother was the clan leader herself, bearing the honor and disgrace of the entire clan, and was so harsh with her it bordered on madness.

At four, Lu Xingci underwent her awakening, but no sword spirit appeared. She became a solitary star spurned by the Heavenly Dao, falling from the clouds into the mire.

The clan leader was disappointed and cold. Her relatives looked on with disdain. Her father was covered in scars from protecting her, yet all the blame fell on her alone.

She came close to death time and again, and time and again wanted to end her life. In the end, she held on until she was fourteen, then resolutely left home for distant lands.

The world mocked her as a lowly speck of dust, devoid of spirit and fate.

But no one knew she possessed a sword of chaos so powerful even the Great Dao feared it.

The boy within the sword, Lu Xingchen, had stayed by her side since she was four, helping her endure every moment of darkness.

He never asked her to bear the burden of fate or whether she was strong. He simply accepted her, scars and all.

He was the only light in her life.

With a sword born of hearts in perfect accord, chaotic light illuminates the eternal stars of Xingci.

She will not worship heaven, kneel to the Dao, accept her fate, or believe in false affection.

To be born with the times is fate.

To be born against the heavens, that is who I, Lu Xingci, am!

In this life, I will keep faith only with Lu Xingchen.

If heaven and earth abandon me, I will become heaven and earth myself!