The Tsundere Male Lead Is Winning Himself Over

Fu Lan transmigrates into a novel with no romance, penniless and burdened with the task of entering the inner sect of Guixu Academy. On her first day of swordsmanship class in the outer sect, she gets an unvarnished critique from the original novel's male lead, Wen Yue: "Amateur."

The male lead, Wen Yue, comes from a noble family and is supremely arrogant. He's upright, but aloof by nature. In short, he's a tsundere.

The world she transmigrated into differs somewhat from the original novel. Everyone avoids him, but Fu Lan, who knows how the story goes, is willing to get close to him.

Though she's forced to.

She has no idea why Wen Yue, who should be proud of his talent, spends every day hovering around her.

When he tutors her in swordsmanship, he brings her wound medicine. When she's stuck on a mission, he patiently helps her pick lotus flowers. When she falls under a love curse, Wen Yue even offers his bed.

The one thing that hasn't changed is his tsundere nature.

Wanting to ease Fu Lan's financial burden, he only knows how to throw money at her, and the two part on bad terms.

After saving her, he says sarcastically, "I'm just worried there'll be one less person for me to scold in swordsmanship class tomorrow."

When she refuses his gift, he says coldly, "Take it. This cheap junk is just right for your talisman arts."

And later, it's still him.

When jealousy eats at him, he keeps reassuring himself that she's different with him.

When they're together, Fu Lan gets so caught up in her career that she neglects him, and he still eagerly offers to help her.

Even after she breaks up with him, he has no sense of tsundere pride at all. He clings to her and refuses to accept it.

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Fu Lan's swordsmanship is rough, and she thinks she has no hope of entering the inner palace. But then she discovers the runes in this world are written in simplified Chinese.

After entering the inner sect, she becomes Wen Yue's roommate at Zhiliu Residence.

One is poor at swordsmanship, the other weak at talisman arts. With the academy on the verge of expelling them, they hit it off and agree to make up for each other's shortcomings.

After spending day and night together, they can no longer suppress their feelings and confess to each other.

But just a few days after their feelings are requited, a huge club comes crashing down on the pair of lovebirds.

Dazed by the blow, Fu Lan says sadly, "Let's break up."

Though Wen Yue is a hundred percent against it, the two end up breaking up anyway.

After the breakup, Fu Lan plots carefully and works every angle, dealing one by one with the villains who have been secretly trying to harm them both, carving out their talismans and extracting their cores.

Later, Wen Yue cleaves a mountain with his sword and sweeps through the sky, cutting down the club that split the lovebirds apart.

Wen Yue stands amid a sea of blood, radiating killing intent.

He thinks coldly that he and Fu Lan are clearly a match made in heaven. Who are other people to interfere?

Reader's Guide

1. This is not a traditional cultivation world. The setting is entirely author-created.

2. No System after transmigrating into a book. Everything serves the setting.

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