Jiang Huaixu had known since childhood that the body she was in wasn't her own. She had transmigrated to the Xuan Yin Sect and become its second senior sister. Her parents had died young, leaving only her and her younger sister, who depended on each other.
Then, after she died a sudden and brutal death, Jiang Huaixu discovered that she was actually a cannon-fodder character in a tragic female-led xianxia novel, and the heroine was none other than the younger sister she had risked everything to protect.
In the original novel, the male lead, the Demon Lord, slaughtered everyone in the Xuan Yin Sect and hung Jiang Huaixu's bloodied head at the entrance to the Demon Realm. To reclaim her sister's body, her younger sister willingly became a caged songbird in the palace. As time passed, she even began to wonder through the haze of passion whether she had fallen in love with the enemy who had slaughtered her family.
Jiang Huaixu: Damn that male lead from the tragic-female-lead novel.
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Jiang Huaixu decided to kill him.
But nothing ever went smoothly, and nothing ever went as planned.
She could only watch as her younger sister grew more and more familiar with the male lead, with a little shadow trailing behind them.
Jiang Huaixu had no idea why Jun Rujun, the original novel's second male lead, had shown up so early.
But that didn't stop her from using him.
So...
When the male lead asked who had saved him, Jiang Huaixu pointed to the person behind her. “He did.”
When her younger sister asked why her heart raced whenever she saw the male lead, Jiang Huaixu lovingly patted her head. “Brother Rujun says Xiao Shuang is just sick.”
A few years later, seeing that things were becoming more and more balanced, the original male lead was dead, and her younger sister was no longer in love with him. Jiang Huaixu let out a long breath. “Great... What did you say?”
Nearby, the haughty young man turned around and folded his arms, raising an eyebrow. “What, Second Senior Sister? You kiss me and don't plan to give me a title?”
At first, Jun Rujun looked down on Jiang Huaixu.
She cultivated for her younger sister. She seized treasures in secret realms for her younger sister. Even when she started a fight within the sect with a single sword, it was for her younger sister.
Even the first time she spoke to him was for her younger sister. The youth's long, narrow eyes were like a deep pool. She placed a red-glowing medicinal herb in Jun Rujun's hand.
“Your marriage to my younger sister is off.”
Jun Rujun: “...Who said I wanted to marry her?”
Back then, he thought the second senior sister of the Xuan Yin Sect was like a block of wood, with only four words carved from top to bottom: protect her younger sister.
Jun Rujun never imagined that later he would draw out his pleas again and again: “Jiang Huaixu, A-Huai, Second Senior Sister... don't leave me waiting outside your door.”
Reading guide:
1. Blurb saved on April 4, 2026.
2. No sisterly rivalry, no melodramatic sisters falling for the same person. At heart, this is a sweet little story.
Theme: Rather than waiting for someone else to save you, take action now!
