[Blades of the Guardians] Three Sentences to Make the Entire Desert Kneel Before Me

Content warning: The author hasn't read the manga. This story is purely the product of being obsessed with the movie. The characters are wildly out of character, and the headcanons are piled high.

Second-person reader-insert romance.

You transmigrate as the eldest daughter of the Peiwu family.

Your personal System doesn't seem very bright. It gives you a bunch of weird skills like "silver tongue," "heart-to-heart talk," and "words made reality."

Might as well make do with them. What else can you do?

And so begins your highly sociable life: selling vegetables, haggling, sweet-talking a Turkic boy, bonding with a Sogdian businesswoman, and casually tying the five great families into a shared alliance of interests.

All you wanted was to make money, but you accidentally built a commercial empire.

All you wanted was to level up your skills, but you accidentally drove your childhood friend crazy.

The arrogant boy who once stood with his hands on his hips and said, "It's not like I like you," now has blood on his blade and a mad dog's grin in his eyes.

He comes to you carrying a severed head and asks which side you're on.

He says your name is on the first page of his grudge book.

He says betrayal hurts most when it comes from one of your own.

"Are you going to leave me behind, too?"

His voice trembles, his eyes are as red as a wolf's, but he's still clutching the wolf fang he gave you back then, the one you heartlessly returned.

You can only hold him tight. "I choose you."

A System pop-up appears: [New Quest: Save the Crazy CEO (crossed out) Khan]

You stare at the quest list, lost in thought.

Is this right?

This can't be right, can it?!

You thought you came to the desert to work on infrastructure. You never expected to fall in love!

Couple: Yi Xuan x You

A sweet little romance, no angst.

Theme: Words are power!