This novel follows Yu'er, a fourteen year old girl who, during the weakest moments of her life, is saved by Qing Jiu (FL).

Yu'er then desperately and very resolutely attempts to stay by Qing Jiu's side. Cue Yu'er yearning for or admiring QJ at least a little bit every few chapters.

It is found that Yu'er has a good aptitude and she, under the guidance of her group of friends, improves her skills and learns to stand her own ground. The characters in her group all have their own proper personalities, perspectives, grievances, strengths, and shortcomings. They all also have their own little dynamics with one another too!

The group explore and travel the martial arts world to complete various tasks. Through them we learn details of the various backstories, relationships, and personalities of the main cast. The world is vibrant and filled with various locations, groups, treasures, and interesting personalities. Because of Yu'er's quite sheltered past and young age, we learn about this world along with her.

I swear this novel puts you on a rollercoaster ride with all the eventful fights, hearty banter, situations, and the intense and at times potentially heartbreaking moments. With the revelation of new information and yearning sprinkled in all along the ride. The group itself is quite powerful, and the MC herself does improve at a questionably fast rate however tension and challenge isn't lost.

In terms of the dynamic between the MC and FL, Yu'er is a stubborn and adorable girl with a kind heart who you can't help but spoil and support. Qing Jiu is a powerful, mischievous, and teasing figure who is also quite mysterious - you can't always tell what she's thinking and even the characters don't know much of her background. At times you do feel quite bad for Yu'er due to her intense emotions towards QJ but it is understandable considering the context.

(legit I swear not 3 chapters go by without Yu'er gazing thoughtfully at her goddess QJ, she's such a yearner lmao)

Members of the group: Qing Jiu, Yu'er, Tang Linzhi, Yan Li, Hua Lian, Mo Wen, Qi Tianzhu and Yang Chun.

Yang Chun is the only spoiler here since he joins them a bit later.

Tang Linzhi and Liu Xiu starts with them picking a fight on their first meeting, but it's funny and cute whenever they show up together.

Yan Li and Wu Yu is a sad and complicated relationship filled with the pain of love and betrayal, but it ends on a good and hopeful note.

but she finds her family later on

I wish we can know more about Linzhi's possible love life omg the author teased us and just leaves it to imagination. It's cruel, but at least it seems to have a positive note. Her growth and change in perspective is admirable and while at first it annoyed me that there was a hint of love line between her and Liu Xiu, she slowly makes up for it.

Almost all of them have awful back stories but Yan Li's one is just rough, and pretty similar to Qing Jiu, in a sense that they both carry the guilt of being indirectly responsible of the demise of people they love most.

What's worse (in a way) for Yan Li is that she truly loves Wu Yu, but is unable to reconcile that with her guilt and loss. This volatile relationship is eerily similar to Yu'er's mother relationship with the moonless sect dude (I forgot his name). Wu Yu and the dude are both obsessed with the object of their love interests to the point of kidnapping and SA.

It's truly an uncomfortable parallel and Wu Yu is not excused just because she's a woman. Only because Yan Li's complicated feelings for her that makes this a more complex dynamic between them, but what happens in the novel when the gang goes to Ji Le City is definitely dubcon, or non-con at worst. I feel for Yan Li very much.

Also it must be tiring being Wu Yu's subordinates because they really have to go everywhere and do everything just because their boss is simping over a girl she betrayed and now trying to chase after.

Side note that's not really related to Yan Li's story: I really don't like how the author/characters try to ask the readers to sympathise with Yu'er's mother's kidnapper/assaulter. Hello? This man is also ready to kill Yu'er to join her mother due to his own twisted logic and they're trying to "poor guy I kinda get it" him??

Nothing much to say about him as his background story is not as elaborate as the others, but special mention of him nonetheless because he's like an annoying, funny, gossipy brother you can't help but love and be annoyed with.

When he gets sad at the end because he thought Qing Jiu is taking bad Yu'er's offer of all of them living together, my heart squeezed a little from so much fondness. He's not the best person but he's definitely loyal towards his people.

Like you can tell the author is trying to make the star lords so awesome but also try to keep them reasonably powered, which ends up in a weird situation where they train for 6 years nonstop but seem around the same power level they were previously. Maybe it's due to the fact that theres too many characters to give them their shining moment but they're doing my girl tang linzhi dirtyy lol.

But because of that 6 year time skip, it kinda made me reluctant to keep reading the book. It just felt tacky.