The Extra Tears Apart the Looping Script

[A scheming but earnest, relentlessly competitive junior sister x a world-weary, flirtatious senior brother]

Jiang Zhao transmigrates into a book and gets a "triple-nothing" role: no golden finger, no System, and no lines.

She thinks being an extra shouldn't be too hard. As for the overpowered male lead and the sweet, innocent heroine, if she can't afford to provoke them, she can always stay out of their way.

But can someone tell her why this is a time-loop story too?

Whenever the female lead breaks off her engagement with the male lead on the day of their cultivation partnership ceremony, holding up a portrait of her unattainable first love, time rewinds five years.

Jiang Zhao is going crazy. Who could cultivate for five years only to be sent all the way back to square one?

She's determined to find a way to break the loop!

Maybe the loop will end if the male and female leads manage to hold their cultivation partnership ceremony?

So Jiang Zhao dutifully takes on the role of their "romance bodyguard," doing everything she can to get them together.

To the unattainable first love: Senior Sister, pick me!

To the third male lead, who keeps butting in and competing for her: Get lost!

By the fifth loop, Jiang Zhao, the unpaid matchmaker, has decided to lie flat. She's done putting up with this crazy couple!

But who could have guessed that on the day of the ceremony, the face in the portrait would turn out to be hers?

Whoever appears in the portrait is the unattainable first love?

So the unattainable first love can be replaced!

Then if the male lead can choose someone else, can't the female lead be replaced too?

Jiang Zhao is struck by the irony. How could a shameless premise like this show up in a female-oriented novel?

But... why not give it a try?

So in the sixth loop, Jiang Zhao starts by rescuing the hero, then abandons talisman cultivation for sword cultivation, successfully becoming the male lead's genius junior sister...

But

How did Xie Qingyan, the sword-path senior brother who's been so impossible to handle in every loop, fall into her hands this easily?

*Xie Qingyan quietly posts:

The new junior sister keeps using clumsy, old-fashioned ways to get close to me. What should I do?

Looking for a tutorial on how to be romanced! Will pay!

[Plot Synopsis]

For her own selfish reasons and a desperate hunch, Jiang Zhao sets out to win over the male lead.

While following the male lead through the main plot, she unexpectedly unravels the mystery of her own origins.

Why are her past and the original host's so alike, and why does she have the same face as the one in her memories?

Suddenly burdened with a blood feud, Jiang Zhao can't help shouting: Is this the price of getting the heroine's role?

Friends, sectmates, family, and lover: Just as she has everything, she suddenly learns that she has to save the world...

Jiang Zhao coughs up blood: Being the heroine really isn't easy!

*Xie Qingyan's thoughts: Wherever Junior Sister points, I'll strike. A good man knows how to have her back!

[Reading Guide]

1. Not a traditional transmigration-into-a-book story. There's little of the original plot, with the focus on the sixth loop. Flashbacks ahead!

2. My take on cultivation, with lots of original worldbuilding! Slow-burn melodrama, not a power fantasy!

3. Some ensemble elements, not purely romance! The male and female leads get together early, but the truth behind their love will only gradually come to light much later. Happy ending!

4. Whether in the original book or in the loops, the male lead has never loved the original heroine! They are drawn to each other and choose each other from beginning to end. Both are each other's first and only love!!

Theme: Follow your heart and be honest