After Planting a Love Gu in My Black Lotus Nemesis

[Sunny, straightforward ray of sunshine x beautiful, tragic, tsundere black lotus]

In the cultivation novel Slay the Heavens, Fang Xiaoyuan hates two people the most.

One is Fang Xiaoyuan, the cannon-fodder supporting character from the Chixiao Sect who shares her name. She loves the male lead but cannot have him, so she forces him to take a love bug, leaving him no choice but to cut off his own arm to cure the poison.

The other is the heroine's guard and sworn younger brother, Yan Yiting.

Yan Yiting is as beautiful as a woman, adorned with exquisite jewels. On the surface, he is a gentleman of spotless character, as elegant as an orchid or a jade tree. In truth, he is a two-faced, treacherous, ruthless black lotus.

He was adopted as a child by the Yan family, one of the Four Great Families, and raised as their own son. But in the end, he slaughtered his adoptive family for his own selfish desires and forcibly imprisoned the heroine, leaving the once-loving couple unable to see each other again before they died.

"This is the most disgusting male supporting character I've ever seen!"

Fang Xiaoyuan has just closed the book when she transmigrates. And she transmigrates into the cannon-fodder supporting character she hates most.

Since she's already transmigrated, she decides to keep her head down and survive. But by a stroke of bad luck, one misunderstanding after another turns her and Yan Yiting from people who can't stand each other into mortal enemies who want the other to disappear on the spot.

Fang Xiaoyuan is at her wit's end. She decides to smooth things over with her senior brother first, so she grabs the pills her junior sister brought and goes to make peace.

Who knew the stuff was a love bug?

Even worse, just as she opens it, Yan Yiting walks in and gets splashed with it.

And so their ill-fated relationship begins.

At first, all they do is hug. Then they kiss. And then... everything that should and shouldn't happen does. As the time they spend under the love bug's influence grows longer and its poison deepens, the time they need to spend together to relieve it gets longer, too.

By day, Fang Xiaoyuan has to keep herself alive under the thumb of this black lotus. By night, she has to beg for mercy beneath him.

She can't take it anymore and resolves to get rid of the love bug, no matter what.

Her perseverance pays off. She finally finds a way to break its spell.

But when she brings the good news to Yan Yiting, she finds him casting a love bug on himself.

Fang Xiaoyuan: ?

Reading guide:

1. 1v1, both devoted to each other, sweet romance, love comes after the love bug is broken. Includes faked death and the male lead's desperate pursuit of his wife.

2. The original male and female leads are not villainized. A slight episodic structure, with a small ensemble cast.

Theme: Follow the core socialist values.