An aloof, high-and-mighty dragonborn x a sunny little survivor
*Opening at 200 saves
Xiao Qiongyue transmigrates into a power-fantasy novel about a domineering hero rising through the ranks and turning the tables. After dutifully spending two years as a cannon-fodder character who gets shoved in front of the male lead, Jiang Yujing, and cut down with a single stroke, she finally receives a new identity card.
Her new identity is none other than Jiang Yujing's child bride, who dies young in the original story.
In the original, Jiang Yujing is the very picture of a heaven-blessed prodigy. At a young age, he breaks through to the Deification Realm, with only one step left before reaching the Great Vehicle stage. But before long, he loses all his cultivation and falls from his pedestal, becoming a good-for-nothing whom anyone can bully and humiliate.
And the one responsible for all this is his child bride.
Later, Jiang Yujing has her cut to pieces and thrown into a demon cave, where she is tortured day after day. From then on, she lives a life worse than death.
Now, Xiao Qiongyue has become that child bride.
The only task the System gives her is to follow the original plot and cripple Jiang Yujing's cultivation.
Fine. Looks like she can't escape death.
Xiao Qiongyue sighs up at the sky, only to realize she can't see a thing. Nobody told her the child bride had to spend some time blind!
Afraid to move in the darkness, she feels her way around slowly. Suddenly, a sword presses against her throat, accompanied by Jiang Yujing's breathless, strained voice: "The antidote."
Xiao Qiongyue remembers the scene. At first, the child bride had wanted Jiang Yujing to like her, so she repeatedly slipped him aphrodisiacs. But he only fell for it once.
And this is that time.
Later, Jiang Yujing is even afflicted with a love-binding gu, but he would rather die than give in, enduring the backlash by sheer force of will. That shows just how much he despises his child bride.
But when Xiao Qiongyue actually reaches the part with the love-binding gu, she realizes something seems off.
Looking at Jiang Yujing's faintly flushed face and listening to his breathy, alluring moans, Xiao Qiongyue can't help thinking he seems excited. His dark eyes even hold a barely perceptible glimmer of anticipation.
"Come on, my antidote."
He opens his arms to her, welcoming her into his embrace, and smiles at her with narrowed eyes.
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On the day Xiao Qiongyue successfully brings about Jiang Yujing's loss of cultivation, he is covered in blood, trembling, yet still clings to her hand and begs her not to leave, promising he will rise again.
Xiao Qiongyue pulls free. Knowing he won't let her off easily once he learns the truth, she decides to fake her death in front of him. That way, she can leave her child-bride identity behind and escape his future revenge.
After faking her death, Xiao Qiongyue happily joins a small sect as a carefree junior sister, and stops paying attention to anything connected to the original novel.
Until one day, her senior brother insists on dragging her into a secret realm for a trial, where she runs into Jiang Yujing.
By then, Jiang Yujing has risen again and become a lofty immortal lord. Yet he is trapped in the lowest-level illusion, unable to escape.
The illusion reenacts one wedding after another.
Xiao Qiongyue is about to take a curious look at who his bride might be when she meets Jiang Yujing's turbulent gaze.
Dressed in festive red wedding robes, he looks at her and the senior brother who is fixing her disheveled hair. Then he lets out a soft laugh, and a biting winter wind sweeps toward her.
The bride's veil is lifted, revealing her face.
Jiang Yujing's voice is calm: "You really made me search for you, my child bride."
Theme: Dawn will always come.