The protagonist, a girl from the Shen family who was abandoned by her parents and picked up from the snowy wilderness as a child to accompany the then-ill matriarch. She was given the name Zhaoxue meaning Illuminating Snow. She has damaged spiritual veins and cannot practice immortal arts, making her an innate good-for-nothing in the cultivation world. She is beautiful with pale skin, sharp jawline, slightly drooping eyes with innocent clarity, and delicate refined features. She is frail and sickly, often coughing up blood. She owns a sword called Splashing Snow which was a birthday gift from her younger sister Zhaolan. She lives as a dependent in the Shen household, always unnoticed and dispensable. She had a dream revealing her world is a tragic xianxia romance novel where her family perishes, and a system chose her to prevent the timeline destruction by pretending to charm the four male leads.
