The Wrap-Up Trope

Name: The Wrap-Up Trope
Author: Ling Yu

杀青梗

by Ling Yu (领彧)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 100k Words
Genre: Ancient Romance
Subgenre: Fantasy Romance
Updated: 6mo ago
English: Request a translation

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Synopsis

[No romance + immortal cultivation + everyone follows the ruthless Dao] (In one sentence: a story set after a novel’s ending)

The hit novel The Six Luminaries of Tianshu ended in tragedy. The sole survivor, Bu Ci, buried her five fellow disciples with her own hands. The immortal sects had misjudged the battle, and five of the Six Luminaries of Tianshu had fallen. Only the eldest senior sister survived.

To soothe readers’ lingering heartbreak, the author wrote a wrap-party bonus chapter: it had all been an act. On the day filming wrapped, the six took off their makeup and went their separate ways.

But no one knew that the antagonist had secretly turned the so-called “wrap party” into a heart-demon illusion. With their memories sealed, they believed they were modern actors who had simply finished filming. They had no idea that every action in their post-wrap lives had actually become a deed of slaughter against their fellow disciples: pouring tea meant slitting a throat, flicking a sleeve meant shattering a core, and the sect was swept by a tide of blood while they chatted and laughed.

Many years later, they finally awoke. But all they saw were fallen immortal mountains and corpses strewn everywhere. Only then did they realize that their so-called “modern lives” had been nothing but a collective hallucination. There had never been any transmigrating, never any acting. Their perceptions had been rewritten by the illusion, and they themselves had brought about the massacre of their sect. But their lives had already reached their end.

“This sword shall bury the great dream we shared.”

In the end, Bu Ci pointed her sword at the heavens. One sword brought frost across fourteen provinces.

“The spring breeze is gone, never to return. All old friends have become dust beneath my sword.”

(The protagonist’s name has been changed. I felt the old one didn’t sound good. 2025.10.29)

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