[Transmigration + mutual scheming and seduction + a possessive love interest who defies expectations + a HE that comes at a price]
“Wifely devotion: 100%. Affection: 100% achieved. Congratulations, Host. The price is your life.”
On the day she transmigrates into the role of a junior sister in the Sword Sect, Xie Qingyao becomes cultivation partners with her aloof senior brother, Xiao Yuzhi. The System demands that she live like “a delicate parasitic vine gilded in gold”: even every strand of her hair must play up how helpless and fragile she is, with her “performer personality” switched on around the clock.
But she soon discovers that this legendary sword cultivator, whose heart is said to be “as still as water,” is a master of wild imagination!
She merely asks someone to teach her how to ride a sword, and he grips her wrist, eyes reddening. “Are you always like this? Pretending to be devoted to me... Am I really that irreplaceable?”
Even after being poisoned by an aphrodisiac, he stubbornly keeps up his cool facade. “I’m your senior brother. How could I let you teach me something like this?”
He knew all along that her attempts to please him were just an act, yet he willingly plays along, pretending they’re deeply in love.
When her identity is on the verge of being exposed, he personally crushes every doubt: “I only want Yaoyao to be herself.”
Then she discovers that the ultimate mission of the so-called “Wifely Devotion System” is to trade her life for a chance to return home. Xiao Yuzhi, meanwhile, saw through her disguise soon after they married. He had seen her falling in his prophetic dreams hundreds of times, yet still let her weave a cage of tenderness around him, willingly trapped in her “deception.”
When she takes a fatal blow from the Demon Lord for him, her wifely devotion finally reaches its maximum.
But at the very moment she should be free, Xie Qingyao realizes that she is more afraid of never seeing again the obsessive man who told her, “I’ll keep you locked up for the rest of your life,” than she is of returning to the modern world.
