Everyone has a one-sided crush on the heroine, who is set up to be the strongest character in the entire story.
By birth, she is the second daughter of a general’s household, low in status and with an unknown birth mother. In terms of talent, she is a good-for-nothing born without a spiritual root, a rarity seen only once in a century. And as for luck, she is forced to bear an unbreakable curse.
Heng Xu thought she had landed in a passionate power-up story where “the east side of the river is mighty for thirty years, then the west side for thirty years.” Instead, she’s the vicious villainess in a melodramatic romance. After dutifully working her way up to become a revered figure in the Demon Realm, she’s fated to be moved to tears by a bowl of sweet porridge from the male lead, then kill herself with a blade.
Heng Xu: This is kind of annoying, but I feel like someone else is the one who should be drinking that porridge. Who wrote this ridiculous plot?!
So she plots and strategizes, forges an alliance with nine kingdoms, and defends Mount Buzhou. She has help from a peerless genius of a Crown Prince up above and a cold, taciturn swordsman down below. The fabulously wealthy young master of the Chu state, a brutal and bloodthirsty elder of the Phoenix clan, and a secluded merman prince all switch sides to join her.
When the day of the plot point arrives
Male lead: She’s so wonderful. She’s never made porridge for any other man.
The supreme being, just about to throw a flower-petal celebration, is served a whole liter of plain porridge instead: (tears) …I thought the male lead wasn’t supposed to be a lovesick idiot?! Brothers, could you at least have warned me you were hopeless romantics?
Black-hearted Heng Xu × countless one-sided crushes
Note: Multiple route endings; there is no single male lead. The “male lead” in the blurb refers only to the male lead of the original story.
The heroine grows throughout the story; the author likes to let things simmer slowly.
Meeting is a fate. To be honest, I read new books one by one. I stayed at first because the heroine's name is rare, and after flipping through it, I felt that the plot was very smooth! Without mentioning the word count, the plot is very long. It only takes two chapters for the heroine to go from a government lady to a novice monk. All the male protagonists who appear dote on this little sister. Brother and Prince Hui, you have to work hard.