Li Shui'er transmigrates into a male-oriented novel as one of the harem supporting characters who tramples the male lead underfoot in a power fantasy. She has been engaged to Long Haoyan since childhood.
Li Shui'er and Long Haoyan have never gotten along. The male lead has a crippled spiritual root, and when she fights him, she really does beat him up. That year, after Long Haoyan loses to her yet again, he can't take it anymore. He throws out the line, "Never bully a poor young man," then declares that he wants to break off their engagement and vows to flatten Yaoguang Sect someday.
So Li Shui'er gets into a fight with Long Haoyan, only to accidentally fall with him onto a remote island in a secret realm. She goes blind, he loses his memory, their spirit rings are gone, supplies are scarce, and their spiritual powers are suppressed. To secure better provisions, Li Shui'er solemnly tells Long Haoyan, "...I'm pregnant with your child."
As the male lead of a power fantasy, Long Haoyan is destined to have three thousand women in his harem, and naturally plenty of children too. Li Shui'er figures he must be a male lead with a breeding obsession. Since even a tiger won't eat its cubs, she can secure her status through the child.
Long Haoyan probably mistakes the way his heart pounds whenever he sees her for a sign he's falling in love. For the six months they spend in the secret realm, he treats her like royalty and even names their child Long Li, which sounds like the lunar calendar. Li Shui'er thinks he should have gone with the solar calendar instead.
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During this time, Li Shui'er also sleeps with Long Haoyan. A man and a woman alone together, things getting heated, it's only natural.
Afterward, she thinks that, as expected of a male lead from a male-oriented novel, he's exceptionally gifted. Once her eyesight returns, Li Shui'er sneaks away, leaving a note agreeing to break off the engagement before returning to her sacred, untouchable position as the saintess of Yaoguang Sect.
Just as the novel's plot foretold, Long Haoyan goes on to make a dazzling name for himself. Li Shui'er thinks he's seen the wider world and long forgotten her, but two years later, Long Haoyan returns like a dragon, becoming a saint through his fighting prowess. No one dares look down on him anymore.
The first thing he does when he arrives at Yaoguang Sect is demand their child from her.
Long Haoyan: "You said back then that you'd have five children for me and carry on the Long family's line. Boys or girls, it didn't matter."
Li Shui'er: "..."
Seriously, you believed something I completely made up?
A straight-faced, shamelessly fibbing heroine versus a pure-hearted, power-fantasy male lead
Theme: Overcoming prejudice takes sincerity from both sides
