19 Chapter 42: Senior and Junior Sisters Part 2

During the Zhou Qi Era, the prestigious Fengyi Sect, a renowned cradle of peerless prodigies, observed two unspoken taboos.

The first was Elder Ye, born Ye Qingzhou: terrifyingly powerful, mercurial, and utterly ruthless with her blade. Provoking her was a death sentence.

The second taboo, and Elder Ye’s ultimate sore spot, was her late Senior Sister, Luo Jiao. Mentioning her name was strictly forbidden.

"Heaven only knows what went wrong a century ago, but Elder Ye despises that Senior Sister of hers to the bone."

"The last fool who dared bring up that Luo girl in front of her took a burst of sword qi straight to the skull. Left him entirely brain dead."

So went the gossip of the young attendant guiding novices at the mountain gate.

Meanwhile, squished awkwardly amid the crowd stood Luo Jiao herself, newly reborn into the world as a thoroughly unremarkable fisher girl.

Luo Jiao: ...

Luo Jiao’s inner thoughts: A hundred years ago, we were devoted martial sisters who shared life and death together. A hundred years later, my darling Junior Sister tells the world she HATES me?! [crying cat meme]

About a month later within the Fengyi Sect, having made quite the impression during the Sword Pavilion Trials, Luo Jiao was intercepted in a secluded corridor by none other than Ye Qingzhou.

Ye Qingzhou locked her in a piercing, unyielding gaze. "Your sword forms look remarkably like hers."

Cold sweat gathering at her temples, Luo Jiao gave a nervous chuckle. "Haha, really? I simply make things up as I swing."

Ye Qingzhou: "I never said who."

Luo Jiao: ...

Luo Jiao: "Elder Ye, whoever you have in mind, it certainly is not me."

Outwardly, Ye Qingzhou’s gaze remained chilling enough to freeze blood, and she merely spat out a cold, venomous "Hmph."

Behind closed doors, however:

Ye Qingzhou’s inner thoughts: Senior Sister refuses to acknowledge me. Senior Sister does not love me anymore!! [crying cat meme]

★ The Serious Version:

A century ago, at the Battle of the Slope of a Thousand Li.

Luo Jiao and Ye Qingzhou, the only personal disciples under the Sanqing Daoist, fought back to back against overwhelming odds, meeting an agonizing fate where one perished and the other was left broken.

The dead found their rest, but the living changed beyond all recognition.

Ye Qingzhou, once the upright and bright bearer of the Everlasting Sword, twisted into a volatile, ruthless, and arrogant eccentric.

The cultivation world resented her, feared her, and cursed her in secret. Ye Qingzhou could not care less.
The only person who ever mattered was gone, so the world meant nothing anymore.
Yet each time she wandered through that desolate mountain in her dreams, she woke to find her pillow soaked in tears.
In those fleeting illusions, that youth was still bold and radiant, dancing like sunlight upon steel.
"Ah Zhou," she would call so tenderly.
Her one and only Senior Sister.

Tags: Original, Yuri, Historical Fantasy, Romance, Devoted Love, Rebirth, Strong Female Lead, Cultivation