After I Transmigrated, I Became the Substitute's Substitute

Zhi Wan transmigrates into a doomed white-moonlight character. She falls into a coma for years while saving Xie Xingzhou, but when she wakes up, she discovers that he's got a substitute by his side, a girl named Qin Zhizhi. Zhi Wan can't accept it and keeps courting death until she kicks the bucket.

On the verge of death, she jolts upright. The doomed side character is me?

Never mind. Someone took my place, so I'll take someone else's.

When Qin Zhizhi's senior brother comes looking for her, Zhi Wan clings to his leg without hesitation. "Senior Brother! I'm Zhizhi! Zhizhi! You finally came to get me, sob!"

The other man's expression is hard to read, his tone ambiguous. "...Zhizhi?"

Zhi Wan nods. "Mm-hmm."

With the right reduplicated nickname, Zhi Wan can be Zhizhi too.

What's more, she hears that Qin Zhizhi's senior brother is terminally ill and doesn't have long to live. Once he's dead, she'll inherit Qin Zhizhi's sect and be free of both Xie Xingzhou and Qin Zhizhi. Then she can focus on cultivation and rise to the top.

The other man's expression is hard to read. "...Is that so?"

But he doesn't press the matter. He takes her away from Xie Xingzhou all by himself and brings her back to the sect. Out of basic human decency, Zhi Wan takes tender care of her sickly senior brother, intending to see him through the final stretch of his life.

Senior Brother needs medicine? She brews it!

Senior Brother is weak? She carries him!

Senior Brother wants to marry me? I'll do it... Wait, weren't you supposed to die?

Zhi Wan hesitates. "Senior Brother, actually, I'm not Zhizhi."

Yun Qingyu's expression is hard to read, but he smiles faintly. "I know, Zhizhi."

Zhi Wan, doomed to be unable to escape.

Yun Qingyu was born of a political marriage between the Demon Queen and the Cloud Venerable. When he was three, the Cloud Venerable married a second wife, and the Demon Queen returned to the demon realm. When he was fifteen, the Cloud Venerable gave his precious Qinghong Sword to his newborn younger brother. When he was twenty, he nearly died while undergoing a lightning tribulation. As he lay alone on Lone Cloud Peak, the Cloud Venerable was celebrating his younger brother's birthday in happy harmony with his second wife.

He ran away from home, found a sect at random, and prepared to end his life. But then he met a young woman who shone brightly in his dark, lightless life.

"Zhizhi." Yun Qingyu takes her hand. "I'm going to give you the best things in the world."

P.S. The heroine is a genius, not an ordinary person, and she doesn't take the ordinary path.

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Blurb: When Gong Yuxi, the little princess of the number-one sect in the Great Wilderness, was sixteen, she brought home a young man named Pei Gu. From then on, one glance bound them for eternity, and she fell deeply in love.

Gong Yuxi went wild for Pei Gu, giving her senior brothers all kinds of trouble because of him. She even rejected a powerful young lord in front of everyone from the four regions and eight wilds.

Pei Gu, however, couldn't care less, and even brought home a junior sister.

The junior sister was a true paragon. She understood perfectly that she shouldn't devote herself to just one man. While making Pei Gu fall head over heels for her, she also won over the other senior brothers.

In the end, every senior brother rose to success. Each of them sent Gong Yuxi to her grave with a single sword stroke.

Gong Yuxi woke from a dream and spent a long time thinking before finally accepting that she was nothing but a villainess.

Since she couldn't change her fate, she made a difficult decision:

Stick to her villainess persona and finish the story as soon as possible.

Since she was going to die anyway, Gong Yuxi started biting everyone she came across.

When her eldest senior brother was gravely injured while fighting off a monster beast,

Gong Yuxi rushed forward with her sword. "You useless idiot, let me handle it!"

When her second senior brother hit a bottleneck while studying swordsmanship,

Gong Yuxi looked at him with disdain. "Are you stupid? You can't even master a sword. You should do it like me, got it?"

When her third senior brother couldn't afford a spirit pill because he was broke,

Gong Yuxi patted her hefty money pouch. "Hmph, you pauper. See this? I'm way richer than you. I'll pay for it, so remember to work like an ox and a horse to repay me."

But the story began to take a strange turn.

Eldest Senior Brother: Junior Sister bravely came to my rescue. She's so kind.

Second Senior Brother: Junior Sister showed me the way and helped me understand the sword. She's so kind.

Third Senior Brother: Junior Sister generously paid for it. She may talk tough, but she has a soft heart. She's so kind.

Gong Yuxi: ???

What's wrong with you? How am I supposed to die quickly like this?

Seeing that she couldn't manage to die, she came across her fiance, the young lord who would kill anyone who stood in his way, even gods. Gong Yuxi thought long and hard and decided to try a different approach.

She rushed forward without hesitation, wrapped her arms around his waist, and called sweetly, "Big Brother!"

Sure enough, he was a man of few words: "Get lost!"

Gong Yuxi: That's right! That's exactly the reaction I wanted.

Theme: Face adversity head-on.