[A laid-back girl worn down by life × a self-deluding, gentle-on-the-surface, dark-hearted Dragon-Aotian hero]
Xin Yizhen had known since birth that she was a minor character in a Dragon-Aotian story.
Unlike other minor characters, she knew what she was. Did that mean she might have earned even the tiniest bit of Heaven's favor? Could she change her utterly ordinary life?
Among the three thousand Great Ways, vast and boundless, was there a path waiting for her to claim, a place where she could stand?
She became a child prodigy in the eyes of ordinary people. Then, after a passing cultivator told her, "Your talent is average. Live a good mortal life," she became a cultivator unable to overcome the barrier in her heart.
She refused to give up.
Later, exhausted, she secretly went to see the Dragon-Aotian hero. At last, she understood just how worlds apart people's talents could be, like a chasm between them. She knew she was a nobody, and that this was not Heaven's favor, but its punishment.
The moment she accidentally met the Dragon-Aotian hero's astonished gaze, she fled in panic.
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Qi Wangqing had been Heaven's favored child since he was young. Blessed with extraordinary talent and remarkably good luck, he was someone everyone else could only look up to. But he had two secrets he could never tell anyone.
The first was that he couldn't make out anyone's face. Everyone looked like a blur to him, even his loving parents.
The second was that, when he was seven, he saw a spirited, bold little girl twice. She was the first person whose face he could see. After meeting her, the gates of the world truly opened to him for the first time, and everyone's faces gradually became clear. But he could never forget that first glimpse of her.
He secretly tried to learn everything about the girl, but never saw her again.
Later, Qi Wangqing was delighted to discover that they were in the same sect. But she was no longer spirited and bold. It was as if a layer of dust had settled over her. He didn't know why, but he always felt she shouldn't be like this.
The darling of everyone around him began carefully and awkwardly trying to get close to someone: finding chances to run into her, making excuses to go on training trips together, coming up with reasons to spend time with her...
At last, they became friends, but he grew even greedier.
He wanted everyone to see her radiance and all the good in her, yet he also wanted her to look at him more. He wanted to hide her somewhere no one else could see her, and do all sorts of outrageous things to her...
Now, this was his third secret, and he wanted to say it aloud.
(Blurb saved on September 15, 2025)
Reader's Guide:
1. One-on-one romance, both leads are each other's only partners.
2. The heroine may have a fiance, but not in the usual sense of the word.
3. To be added.
Theme: You are the one and only beauty in this world.
