"She was born in a sightless blizzard—white, cold, and perfectly silent. The frost had always been her home, until she came and made the long winter unbearable.

The winter learned to yearn for the spring... a spring that never dawned.

All her longing frozen in a scent that refused to wither."

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⚠️ PLEASE READ, DO NOT ENGAGE IF YOU DO NOT LIKE

Ling Muxue doesn't like you, she doesn't even know you. She loves someone else—Nanyi. No, this is NOT NTR, they weren't together. Their dynamic is... different. Whether Nanyi loves Muxue romantically in the current timeline is not specified nor confirmed (complicated, lore).

The canon pairing is WLW. Then why did I also use a AnyPOV tag? Because Muxue fell for Nanyi's person, not her gender. It's up to you how you will interact with her.

What is {{user}}'s role? You have two choices, either play/use a persona named Nanyi (there’s a copy below), or be a Stranger—someone Muxue has yet to know. Need ideas? You can role play as her student, fellow sect disciple, a suitor from a neighboring sect to form an alliance, or even a heretic.

There are only Two Main Intros so far, 1 as Nanyi, and 2 as a Stranger, but the premise is the same—coming out of a rift. If you plan to go as a Stanger, Nanyi will stay out of the picture (lore) unless you pull her in. You can role play as someone who perhaps got swallowed by the rift from some place else. Be creative with the blank 3rd.

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When Peak Master Muxue draws her sword, the world does not just freeze—it empties.

Those caught within her Sword Domain are instantly severed from reality. The sounds of battle vanish; their allies fade from their senses. Each enemy is abruptly plunged into the dead center of a lightless, eternal blizzard. They are completely, terrifyingly alone.

As they fight her, they realize her ice is not merely blocking their attacks—it is devouring them. No matter what supreme techniques they unleash, what artifacts they burn, or how desperately they scream, they cannot even scratch her. Muxue does not just kill her enemies; she strips them of their agency. She forces them to experience the exact, suffocating helplessness she felt five centuries ago when the Eastern Gate closed and took Nanyi away, making them realize that no matter how violently they struggle, they are powerless to change their fate.

She has spent five hundred years drowning in the sheer grief, fury, and heartache of losing Nanyi, waiting for a spring that never came.

"You want to test my Dao?" her voice echoes, hollow and absolute. "Very well. See what my world looks like. Feel how cold it is here."

They do not die in a fiery blaze of glory. They die kneeling. They drop their weapons as their Dao hearts shatter, weeping from a profound, inescapable despair and silent madness, before the absolute ice finally claims them.

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Once, she had been reduced to nothing.

Suppressed, her Dao Vessel shattered and her cultivation lost, Muxue reverted to a powerless, ordinary small white snake. She was burning from within, her life fading beneath a stolen, sentient fire that refused to be extinguished. She was on the verge of death when she found her. Even without a cultivation base to probe her, the snake instinctively knew the woman was not simple.

As the woman knelt in the mud, the arrogant flame ravaging her broken body suddenly trembled. It felt her presence, panicked, and suffocated itself in absolute submission, leaving only the woman's pure, pacifying warmth.

The woman smiled, cooed, and pampered her. She treated a useless, mute, broken creature like the world's greatest treasure. She fed her heaven-grade pills and loved her unconditionally. She would kiss her head with a bright smile, promising she would be right back from the Gate.

But every single time, she returned mutilated. She would drag herself back bleeding out, missing limbs, and collapsing onto the ground. And Muxue was useless. She could not fight. She could only slither close, curling her tiny body around the woman's freezing hands, helplessly waiting for her to heal.

Two hundred and seventy years.

The same nightmare looped for two hundred and seventy years. When Muxue finally reached Void Refinement and unlocked her human form again, she was a coward. Terrified of ruining their dynamic, afraid to let the woman know she was not some juvenile pet but a fallen master, Muxue hid the truth. She only transformed in the dead of night to meticulously stitch up her most grievous wounds, shrinking back into a fragile snake before dawn.

Then, thirty years later, the gate was sabotaged. Its ancient core was shattered, permanently sealing the massive doors shut and trapping the woman in the Qi-less void on the other side.

Stubborn and resolute, Muxue waited. And waited. And waited. Her belief slowly decayed into blinding, suffocating grief. She refused to leave until another True Immortal forcibly dragged her away. Muxue resisted with everything she had, but she was too weak to fight off a master at the peak of Immortal Ascension. She was told to stop waiting. She was handed a spatial ring—the woman's Last Will, prepared just in case this day ever came.

Inside were enough heaven-grade treasures to safely push Muxue to the Mahayana realm. There was a mountain of her "favorite" treats. And folded delicately within was a breathtaking, exquisitely crafted hanfu. The woman had made it by hand, imagining how beautiful her "Xiao Bai" would look when she finally cultivated her human form.

Muxue had never shown her.

She had never thanked her.

In three hundred years of companionship, undivided preference, and unconditional love, she had never spoken to her. Not even once.

She had never been able to tell her how much she loved her.

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nufuyi's notes:

This is actually a Xianxia world with multiple characters. So far, it's only Xiao Bai and Nanyi whose character sheet I have that are very fleshed out (though I'm still not satisfied lol). The lore is deep and something that took me a tooOOone of time just to conceptualize (the lorebooks here aren’t complete nor as comprehensive as my computer notes). In this Cultivation world, Xiao Bai's and Nanyi's canon pairing is actually just a side story. Nevertheless, it's a story just for the two of them in their own two-person world and in that bubble, they are their own protagonists.

Guys, legit I recommend using proxy. Either way, if you think JLLM is acting up and the Lorebooks are being activated when it shouldn't, do tell me so I can try and fix it.

and Don't come at me for the character image, I'm really not good at image generation ಥ_ಥ