[System quest romance + silly, sweet, feel-good xianxia + unconventional substitute romance]
Ye Qingqing is the Heavenly Court’s top sales star at its outsourced tribulation-of-love agency. She specializes in playing the “heartbroken female supporting character” in scripts for all kinds of powerful figures.
That is, until she takes on the toughest assignment of all: helping Cangming, a demon lord born without a thread of affection and incapable of understanding love, pass his tribulation.
The script says the heroine must serve as a substitute, endure humiliation, tear out her heart, and leap off a cliff. Only then will the demon lord come to a profound realization, overcome his trial of love, and ascend.
But in practice:
Ye Qingqing bites her lip, her eyes reddening. “My lord, in the end, you only ever saw me as her substitute…”
Cangming: “Nonsense. A substitute doesn’t eat as much as you do. You’re about to eat through my treasury.”
Ye Qingqing jumps off the cliff with grim determination, waiting for him to be heartbroken.
Cangming silently transforms into his true form, a nine-headed bird, plucks her up in his beak, and carries her back to the nest. He even stuffs a freshly roasted sweet potato into her hands. “It’s windy. Stop doing stunts outside.”
The Heavenly Court’s KPI is in grave danger!
