After Death, I Became the Little Bird in Senior Sister’s Palm

Another Title: After the Immortal Venerable Yun Heng’s White Moonlight Was Reborn

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Everyone knew that Immortal Venerable Yun Heng, with her cultivation nearing the Divine Realm and her heart devoted to the common people without selfish desires, was the coldest snowfall atop Cloud Mist Mountain.

As the only junior sister of Immortal Venerable Yun Heng, Wen Qiwu harbored a secret buried deep in her heart since her youth—she was in love with her senior sister. But this affection was doomed to remain hidden from the light. She had thought she could guard this secret for life, but she overestimated herself. A single jug of immortal brew that was not even very intoxicating shattered years of restraint.

In the moment she was confined to Reflection Cliff, Wen Qiwu felt regret, but more than that, she felt relief. She suffered from a chronic illness and congenital weakness, destined not to live long. It was better to leave no regrets before death.

Years later, the Immortal-Demon War erupted. Perhaps her senior sister believed she had let go of those feelings by then. Before departing, she left a voice transmission instructing Wen Qiwu to stay safely in the sect and wait for her return to make her favorite chestnut cake.

Her senior sister ultimately could not bear to confine her for life. Unfortunately, Wen Qiwu did not wait for the chestnut cake or her senior sister. Instead, she first encountered the Demon Clan army that had circled around to raid the sect from behind. To defend the sect, she perished together with the enemy leader.

Perhaps heaven took pity on her. Though she should have scattered into nothingness, she lived on inside a spirit beast egg in the Border Region.

Even though she was far from the sect and deliberately avoided news of her past, years later, some rumors still reached her ears about her senior sister’s situation.

She heard storytellers claim that Immortal Venerable Yun Heng had suffered severe injuries in that great war. She also heard gossip that the Immortal Venerable was not truly gravely wounded but had developed a heart demon because she could not obtain the bright moon in her heart.

Wen Qiwu endured these absurd claims again and again, but in the end, she could not hold back. She transformed into a white bird, intending to teach the speaker a lesson for talking nonsense. Unexpectedly, she was caught by disciples of Cloud Mist Mountain, caged, and sent to the Immortal Venerable as a pet to relieve her boredom.

After many years, seeing her senior sister again, Wen Qiwu discovered that the tales of severe injuries were true, and the heart demon seemed real as well. The once taciturn senior sister now shut herself in her room every day, clutching the bird cage and murmuring to herself with disjointed, illogical words. A plate of untouched chestnut cake always sat by her side. Wen Qiwu could not escape and became her senior sister’s sole daily listener.

Later, Wen Qiwu realized that every word her senior sister spoke was an expression of love that had never been conveyed.