The White Moonlight and the Substitute Got Their Happy Ending

Jing Lin was everyone's unattainable ideal: cool, powerful, peerlessly elegant and beautiful.

But the moon is always meant to be admired from afar.

So the medicinal herb she risked her life to obtain was handed to her junior sister by her master without a word.

Afterward, he said, "That herb means little to you, but your junior sister is young and frail. It was unavoidable. You must understand."

Her senior brother had long been engaged to her, yet he still couldn't help looking at her junior sister.

He said, "Our engagement was arranged to repay a debt of gratitude. I thought it was love, but it was only gratitude. I didn't know what love really was until I met my junior sister."

And the junior brother she had treated like her own little brother gave the magical artifact she'd carefully prepared to her junior sister.

When demons attacked, that artifact protected the junior sister, while Jing Lin lay dying on the brink of death.

He said, "Senior Sister, Little Junior Sister is so delicate. I have to protect her."

Jing Lin had been born without a heart. She didn't care that her master gave her herb away, that her senior brother fell for someone else, or that her junior brother trampled on what he called her feelings.

She knew perfectly well that she was only here to pass through a trial.

The mortal world and all its affairs were nothing but an illusion,

until she met Jiang Wan. She knew all about Jiang Wan's schemes, yet still fell for her against her will.

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Jiang Wan transmigrated into a book. Her character was the scheming, wicked junior sister, sweet-faced but vicious at heart.

In the original story, the heroine, the unattainable ideal of the sect, returned after falling off a cliff to find that her sect had taken in a substitute who looked just like her.

Her master pitied the substitute, her senior brother loved her, and her junior brother protected her.

The substitute had taken everything from her.

Jiang Wan's mission was to play the wicked junior sister well.

Once the heroine had a great awakening, attained enlightenment, and ascended, Jiang Wan could complete her mission and return to her own world.

She had thought she could do it.

[Content warnings]

1. Jing Lin x Jiang Wan: a cool, aloof top who is actually obsessive and fussy, like a mother hen x a sweet, silly bottom who thinks she's wicked and overbearing.

2. Various men develop one-sided feelings for the heroine or heroines, but they're all scumbags and background characters included only because the plot requires it. The heroine or heroines feel nothing for them.

3. The focus is on two people who think they're clear-headed and rational slowly falling in love. There will be angst as they struggle with their own rationality, their self-image, and the choice between love and their ideals or careers. It has nothing to do with anyone else.

Theme: Someone will love the radiant soul beneath your polished or battered exterior.