After Accidentally Saving the Villainous Snake Demon

I'm sorry, dear readers OTZ. The framework for this story grew too ambitious and strayed from the idea I had when I first came up with the blurb. Only after starting serialization did I realize I couldn't handle both the grand setting and the story in the blurb. It will take some time to start over and revise it, so I'm putting this story on hiatus for now. I'm very sorry (>_<)!

Blurb:

Xi Wei is asked to enter a book and undergo a trial, changing its world-ending conclusion.

Monsters run rampant in the world of the book. The most notorious is the villain Wu Zhuo, who has the most stunning and bewitching appearance, yet is the cruelest and most vicious of them all. No cultivator who falls into his hands is left intact.

The righteous factions suffer heavy losses, and monsters everywhere seize the opportunity to emerge in force, bringing devastation to the mortal world.

To change the story in which monsters destroy the world, Xi Wei decides to stop them before anything can happen.

As soon as she transmigrates, she comes across a snake in the forest, covered in wounds and on the verge of death.

As the saying goes: If you want to achieve great things, start with yourself, start with those around you, and start with the little things.

So Xi Wei scoops up the snake on the ground and takes it away to save it.

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The great demon Wu Zhuo is wanted by the righteous sects and clans. Everyone wants him dead.

After capturing him, the cultivators dig out his demon core and destroy his foundation. They would love to tear him apart and devour his flesh, but no one expects that the crippled monster still has the strength to kill and escape.

The gravely wounded monster takes his true form in a remote forest, where he encounters a cultivator lurking nearby.

A tiger fallen on the plains is bullied by dogs. Unable to escape, he can only let the stranger take him away.

At first, Wu Zhuo takes Xi Wei for another trap set by the cultivators. He pretends to be clueless and plays along, secretly lying in wait for a chance to kill her.

But he never expected the humiliating days that followed:

How could anyone be so clueless as to walk into an obvious scam and get him mistaken for a monster's meal, or be so broke they had to cook for themselves, then make a deadly dish without realizing it and try to poison him with it, or finally earn a reward for capturing a monster only to have ordinary people swindle them out of every last coin in the blink of an eye?!

Wu Zhuo, forced to travel in hardship with her: ...There's no way this idiot was sent by those cultivators.

The black snake, now clear about where he stood, slipped away in the night.

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He thought that when they met again, they would be strangers on opposite sides of good and evil.

He thought that his body was now a dried-up soul, buried in the earth.

Only when he watched that person disappear with his own eyes

Did he realize that losing everything you never had could also burn your heart and soul to ash.

*

Scarlet, slit-pupiled eyes shed burning tears

As he falls beside the one he loves

Quirky thought process / cross-dimensional communication / slightly airheaded, deadpan Tang Sanzang VS crazed and possessive on the outside / like punching cotton on the inside / restrained, self-destructive, beautiful tragedy

From sabotaging each other to doting on each other for real. A slow-burn romance.

Please add my next story, Keep Those Blondies Away from My Sister!!

Xie Jin and Xie Yu are close in age. They've fought since they were in the womb, and after fighting over the remote, they both transmigrated. Their battle record speaks for itself.

When Xie Jin wakes up, the System tells her: Congratulations, you've got an A-rank villainess sect leader's daughter role. Just finish the story and you can go home, ho ho ho! See that good-for-nothing over there? The first step to establishing your persona is to torment him!

Xie Jin, with over ten years' experience reading web novels: [Got it.jpg]

The good-for-nothing, ordered to carry water up the mountain and buy snacks down below, drive people around on a flying sword, and serve as a fire-tender when he joins the sect: [Gradually realizing.jpg] [Why am I the NPC and my sister's the protagonist.jpg]

"Xie Jin, try stealing the homework I worked so hard on again, and see what happens!"

"Come on, how can you call it stealing when it's a scholar's business?~wink~"

Then one day, the siblings suddenly realize that the scripts they each received are nested dolls.

Xie Jin: The villainess daughter doomed to die script → the villainess daughter doomed to die, then becomes everyone's favorite, restricted script

Xie Yu: The good-for-nothing's comeback script → the good-for-nothing straight guy gets topped, gay dating sim script

The problem is, they find out too late. The plot is already underway.

Xie Jin and Xie Yu: Wait, what?!

Protect their chastity, call a truce

"My stupid little brother, that's a cross-dressing guy! Keep your eyes open!"

"Who invited this stinking blondie? Stay away from my sister!!"

A bumpy journey home for the siblings. Their parents are all-in on them. No romance for either sibling.

Theme: Finding oneself