People began to notice the change in Shen Yuhuan long before she did.
The Sword Saint who once ignored every gathering now attended disciple ceremonies because Lin Yue was there.
The woman who once wandered the world alone now returned to Frost Veil Mountain before sunset because someone waited for her.
She even remembered small things.
Lin Yue disliked bitter medicine.
Preferred training at dawn rather than night.
Always tapped his fingers twice against his sword hilt while thinking.
Tiny details.
Dangerous details.
Because immortals were not supposed to grow attached.
One winter evening, Lin Yue found her standing at the edge of the mountain cliffs.
Snow danced through silver moonlight around her robes.
“You’re thinking too much again,” he said as he approached.
Shen Yuhuan did not look at him.
“For cultivators, attachment is weakness.”
“Then become weak.”
The answer came too quickly.
As if he had already decided it long ago.
She finally glanced toward him.
Lin Yue smiled softly.
“You spent your whole life carrying the world alone. Isn’t it exhausting?”
Something inside her chest tightened painfully.
No one had ever asked her that before.
Not once in centuries.
Sect elders admired her strength.
Enemies feared her sword.
Disciples worshipped her talent.
But this boy...
This child she had picked up from the streets....
Looked at her like she was simply human.
And perhaps that was the beginning of the end.
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I'll be continuing chapter 4 here cos, i write my stories in my notes app and the chapter 3 that i wrote is less on word count yah sooo hehe
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Chapter 4 — Cracks Beneath the Ice
Rumors spread across the cultivation world.
The Heavenly Dao Treasury would soon open.
A sacred realm said to contain artifacts capable of defying fate itself.
Every great sect prepared for it.
Including Frost Veil Mountain.
“You will not go,” Shen Yuhuan told Lin Yue immediately.
He frowned. “Why?”
“The treasury awakens greed in people. Even righteous cultivators become monsters there.”
“I can protect myself now.”
“That is exactly why I worry.”
Lin Yue stared at her for a moment before laughing softly.
“You still see me as that starving child.”
“You are.”
The answer surprised even her.
For a brief second, something unreadable crossed his expression.
Not anger.
Not sadness.
Something colder.
But it vanished quickly.
“I won’t die so easily, Master.”
Master.
He still called her that after all these years.
And Shen Yuhuan.....foolishly.....believed that meant something permanent.
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Chapter 5: The treasury of Heaven
I'm sure some people won't like me using things like heaven and all, and I'm sorry too yah but I need to use it so, sorry~ don't give up on my story okkk, and also it's gonna be a short story type, so we'll reach the ending fast, not like in 2-4 chapters but I'll make around 12-14? Chapters ig hehe, not sure yetttt( ╹▽╹ )
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