After I Switched from the Heartless Path to the Path of Love

My name is Lu Renjia. I was originally just a random extra in the male protagonist Yan Xiu's cultivation adventure story, but after serving as a dutiful background character ten times, I seem to have fallen for the protagonist too. Why is he so handsome and charming? So I worked hard to catch up with Yan Xiu, then eagerly went to confess my feelings. His lackeys laughed at me: "An ugly freak like you thinks you're worthy of Young Master Yan, the chosen one?"

I was humiliated. I was furious! So I switched to the Heartless Dao, deciding to follow in the footsteps of my predecessors and prove my Dao by "killing my husband"! From then on, the cultivation world gained a Heartless Monarch, who made a point of opposing the chosen ones, especially by trying to kill Yan Xiu at every turn! She became one of the demonic women no one in the cultivation world dared provoke!

Later, a hurricane struck the sea. I finally succeeded in "killing my husband" just before I died, but unfortunately, I failed to prove my Dao, and I died too.

A thousand years later, I came back to life, reincarnated as a little girl named Su Xi, and joined a major sect.

Since I failed at the Heartless Dao in my last life, I decided to cultivate the Dao of Love this time around. So I set my sights on Han Cheng, the junior brother who had joined our master's tutelage alongside me.

After observing for a year, I learned that the chosen ones of a thousand years later all shared one obvious trait: double-barreled surnames, like Shangguan, Ouyang, Duanmu, Helan, and Baili...

The chosen ones who were pretty boys also shared one obvious trait: reduplicated names, like Li Zhizhi, Zhao Tiantian, Wang Jiaojiao, Zhang Tingting, Li Yuanyuan, and Luo Qianqian...

My junior brother's surname is Han, so he doesn't qualify as one of the chosen pretty boys. And my name, Su Xi, isn't fit for a heroine either. So we won't be a pretty boy paired with a random extra, a pretty boy paired with a flower-like beauty, a flower-like beauty paired with a random extra, or a flower-like beauty paired with a supporting male character or villain...

My junior brother grew tired of me clinging to him, but two years later, we got engaged and fell into a sweet, loving romance, striving toward a future as immortal companions!

Han Cheng (Yan Xiu): (trembling) How terrifying! If I don't agree, will she switch to the Heartless Dao and spend another lifetime trying to kill me...?

Han Cheng: What a disaster. I must have done something awful in my last life. It's all the fault of those few bigmouth flatterers. They made her kill me for an entire lifetime!

P.S. This short story is expected to be under 300,000 words. Please add it to your to-read list ^_^!

P.S. They break up at the end, a bad ending. The heroine goes off to pursue immortality, and the hero does too.

Premise: Love yourself and charge ahead.