Ning Xi was an orphan who drifted about with no one to rely on. She was taken in by the Qingyun Sword Sect and became an insignificant outer disciple in the vast sect.
Amidst the daily grind of menial chores, she would occasionally catch a glimpse of a celestial white sword streak across the sky—that was the Sect Master’s personal disciple, Pei Bu Chen, returning from his training.
Da Shi Xiong Pei Bu Chen came from a prestigious family and was a man of astonishing talent.
At sixteen, he won the Immortal Palace Trial. At seventeen, he entered the Sword Concealment Cave and drew ten thousand swords to vie for him as their master. At eighteen, he single-handedly slayed an ancient demonic flood dragon, saving countless lives with his longsword.
As for Ning Xi, she could only gaze from afar at the bright and noble, gentle and graceful young man across a sea of thousands during the annual Shangyuan Night Ancestral Ceremony, thinking to herself:
Da Shi Xiong, who is adored like the moon surrounded by stars, probably has no idea he even has an unremarkable junior sister.
Yet, it was this very Da Shi Xiong, with whom her relationship was distant and with whom she had exchanged no more than three sentences, who desperately fought to retrieve her body when her sect was annihilated and Ning Xi, betrayed by her fiancé, lay in a pool of blood with several swords in her.
In the end, clutching her Spirit Tablet, he threw himself into the Mad Sea.
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After taking her last breath, Ning Xi opened her eyes again to find herself back on the night the sect was destroyed. Her master had died early, her master’s wife was dead, the mourning hall was crude, and the night wind was bleak.
Facing Da Shi Xiong, whose hair had already grayed prematurely as he stood guard before the coffin, the surviving Ning Xi hesitated for a long time before finally mustering the courage to tug on the corner of his sleeve.
“From now on, I will stay with Shi Xiong forever.”
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With their sect destroyed, only the senior brother and junior sister remained, wandering the martial world.
Ning Xi always kept her promise, staying by Da Shi Xiong’s side.
Just as she remembered, Pei Bu Chen gave her everything she asked for, a gentle and kind older brother in every way… except that sometimes, the things he said were a little strange.
“Shi Xiong, you tied my hair too tight!”
“Mm… But who was that person you were just talking to? Didn’t I warn you not to casually talk to others? Why do you still not listen to me? Why are you talking to other people every day instead of coming to find me? Is it because others are more attractive to you? Do you know how much I suffer every day waiting for you to come find me?”
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“Shi Xiong, Daoist He gave me a bag of Pine Nut Candy. You have some too!”
“Okay… But who is Daoist He? A man or a woman? Are you close with him? How did you meet? When did you meet? Do you contact each other often? More often than you contact me? Have you talked recently? Were you with him when you weren’t with me? Besides him, who else is there?”
…
Also, what was with Da Shi Xiong’s gaze, as dark and damp as moss, whenever Ning Xi startled awake in the middle of the night to find him sitting by her bed?
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[Reading Guide]
*1v1, HE
*This novel is also known as “The Female Lead Who Thought She Was in a Healing and Redemption Story, and Her Darkly Obsessed Senior Brother”
*The story focuses on the romance. The pure relationship between a senior brother and junior sister gradually sours (?). The plot serves the romance.
*The female lead has a growth arc and may be a slow burn.
*The characters are not perfect.
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