[Clear-headed, radiant female ancestor x a patient, scheming Demon Venerable]
Yu Zhuohua transmigrates into a book as a doomed side character, and the System tells her to win over the villain.
She turns around and runs her sword straight through her target.
System: ... (crashed.)
The mission fails, and the System despairs.
But Yu Zhuohua breaks through with one strike, becoming the foremost swordswoman in the Nine Provinces. Then she lies flat and does nothing, spending a century as a carefree ancestor of the sect.
That is, until the sect holds its recruitment drive and she is forced to take a disciple.
The young man kneeling before her is as elegant as snow and moonlight, with astonishing talent.
The elders practically fight over him. But when it's Yu Zhuohua's turn, she takes one look and immediately wants to run.
Why does he look exactly like the ex she killed a century ago???
System: [Mission target detected. The capture mission is about to restart.]
Yu Zhuohua, three times in a row: I refuse! I refuse!! I refuse!!!
The System falls silent, then secretly causes trouble all night.
That night, Yu Zhuohua wakes from a dream and discovers she's in Feng Xuanyu's body.
System: [The Host and the mission target are now linked by a soul-swapping spell. It starts at midnight and ends at dawn.]
Yu Zhuohua: ???
Don't do this!
From then on, she is forced to part from her beloved bed every night.
When she can take no more, she tells Feng Xuanyu, "Why don't you sleep in my bed?"
*
The ex she once killed with her own hands is now her obedient disciple.
Yu Zhuohua stays on guard at every turn, afraid he'll stab her to death with his sword.
Only the System knows the truth.
On countless nights, he kneels beside her bed, his eyes swirling with obsession, but not a trace of hatred in them.
System: ... (pretending to have crashed.)
Forced to live together because of the soul swap, they are affectionate master and disciple by day, and test each other at night.
The day the immortal sect opens its spiritual network, Yu Zhuohua posts four times in a row:
"How should I get along with my ex?"
"What do I do if my ex becomes my disciple?"
"What do I do if I share a bed with my ex?"
"What do I do if my ex treats me too well?"
Top comment: "We young people call that a current partner." (Liked by Feng Xuanyu)
Second top comment: "Log off before you start flirting." (Liked by Feng Xuanyu)
Yu Zhuohua: "Cruel words hurt people's hearts."
*
Feng Xuanyu understood from a young age that no one in this world would ever show him mercy.
Burdened by sin, he was destined for a life of misery.
Until he met Yu Zhuohua.
The girl's radiant smile captivated him with just one glance, and he could never forget her.
Beneath the high walls on a moonlit night, he pins her in the shadows and begs for her love with near-reverence.
"This is the only spirit sword that can kill me. I give it to you."
"Yu Zhuohua, please love me."
Feng Xuanyu has always been able to see the capture score.
When he was young and sincere, his affection for her was 99 at first sight.
Selfish and obsessive, he keeps that score locked in place, hoping it will make her stay.
Even if he ultimately dies by Yu Zhuohua's sword, he has no regrets.
*
The day Feng Xuanyu's identity is exposed, the immortal sects and clans unite to hunt him down.
The little ancestor of Quanshan, who should have been leading them, instead stands before the Demon Venerable with her sword drawn.
The young Demon Venerable bows to no god or Buddha. He kneels only to her.
In his short life, all he ever wanted was the moon shining high above and his name forever preserved in ink.
Fortunately, even a century after his death, someone still remembers him.
For that, he is willing to walk even a hundred years along a soul-wrenching path.
*
--I escaped from hell only to return to your side--
Reader's Guide:
1. Pure romance, 1v1, happy ending. See the author's note in Chapter 1 for detailed warnings.
2. Fake master and disciple, real lovers.
3. The heroine really kills him, and the hero really dies. No angst, all sweetness!!!
4. A mountain of original worldbuilding. Cultivation levels: Mortal Realm, Heart-Viewing Realm, Freedom Realm, and Return to Heaven Realm.
5. Flashbacks. This isn't a capture-the-target story; the plot begins after the heroine's failed mission.
6. Transmigrate-into-a-book setting, with a System that has very little presence.
7. The heroine fully supports everyone!
Theme: Love can move mountains and seas
