The Sickly Beauty's Substitute Is the White Moonlight

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After Xie Wuyu died, everyone began to love him. He became the white moonlight before their windows, the cinnabar mark in their hearts, and an unspeakable pain.

The cultivation partner whose heart he pierced with a sword lights a soul-guiding lamp every night, hoping to see him in a dream. The close friend who once called him a hypocrite willingly enters a perilous ancient secret realm to find a way to bring him back to life. The disciple who once stabbed him in the back falls to demonic cultivation and spends the rest of his life with a heart demon. As for the master who personally pronounced his guilt, after killing the culprit responsible for his death, he walls himself away and makes no further progress in cultivation.

Reborn as a sickly beauty's stand-in, Xie Wuyu is forced to listen to all of them express their longing for him and regret what they did. Xie Wuyu has only one thing to say: There is really no need to act remorseful after the fact. Those so-called tokens of love you gave me were all bought wholesale by me. Yiwu Market goods, you can trust them.

Everyone: No, no, the cultivation world has never seen material this unique.

Xie Wuyu: It's all plastic~

By the end, Xie Wuyu feels this might not be their road to redemption, but his own hell.

Xie Wuyu: I shouldn't be sitting here. I should still be lying in my coffin.

[Everyone gets their redemption arc, even if their ashes are scattered. None of the characters mentioned in the synopsis are the love interest.] [This is a one-on-one romance from beginning to end. No guessing who the love interest is. The love interest appears as a mountain sparrow, among other forms later on. His identity won't be revealed for now.]

Upcoming novel: The Sickly Beauty Chancellor Is the White Moonlight (visit the author's page)

The second young master of the Ning'an Marquis household in the capital is dazzlingly talented, bright as the moon in the sky and pure as snow on a mountain. His greatest wish in life is to use his talents to help a wise ruler and bring peace to the land. Yet his frail health keeps him confined to the back courtyard of the marquis's estate, and in the end, he vanishes from the world along with the Ning'an Marquis household in a great fire.

Xie Hui gets a second life. He no longer wants to be a virtuous minister praised throughout history. Instead, he will become a powerful minister with authority in his grasp. Only then can he protect his family and keep his close friend safe.

In this life, while everyone looks on in disbelief, he allies himself with the violent and ruthless crown prince. Then he kills his childhood friend, ruins the career of his grandfather's student, cripples the son of a military family, and ends the third prince's chances of becoming emperor.

Because he knows that these people abandon their spouses and children, betray their teachers and ancestors, break their promises, and sell out their country. Every last one of them deserves to go to hell.

Core message: Even when faced with all kinds of misfortune, never give up hope.