I Became the Stepping Stone for the Female Lead of a Period Novel

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Chen Xuanyu grew up on Fangqing Mountain. She had a master who loved her like his own daughter, and she spent her days drawing talismans, studying medicine, and teasing ghosts. Life couldn't have been more carefree.

Except her health wasn't great.

Sigh. She got a minor illness every three days and a serious one every five. Every so often she'd cough up a few mouthfuls of blood, pass out, and stay unconscious for days. Yes, she was the kind of person who was doomed to die before turning twenty.

Chen Xuanyu didn't take it to heart. People in the mystic arts had to pay a price, and that was the way of the heavens.

When she was seventeen, her master mysteriously disappeared in the capital. No one knew whether he was alive or dead.

She worked hard to get into Capital University, determined to find him. In her search, she discovered that the truth was becoming more and more tangled. Her own background was full of twists: she should have been a wealthy heiress, enjoying riches and her parents' love, but someone had defied the heavens and changed her fate, switching her destiny with that of a fake heiress from a wealthy family.

Who did it?

Was her master involved?

Chen Xuanyu's task was to uncover the truth.

Bonus scene:

Under the moon, Chen Xuanyu finally saw her master again after two years.

Chen Xuanyu drew her peachwood sword, her voice trembling slightly. "Why?"

"There is no why." The man stood with his hands behind his back. The night wind billowed through his robes, making them snap. "Your fate is extraordinarily noble. Only this way can you save my son, whose death is inevitable. Besides, how have I treated you over the past seventeen years?"

Chen Xuanyu was already in tears. The peachwood sword in her hand wavered.

The smile at the corner of the man's mouth was chillingly cold. "Your Dao heart is in disarray. You're no match for me. Why not surrender? I will... spare your life." He closed his eyes, afraid the trace of compassion in his heart might show.

Her answer was a sword through his chest.

Chen Xuanyu flicked the blood from her peachwood sword and smiled sincerely. "Master, I'll spare your life too."

I'll only cripple your cultivation.

I, You Jingyi, am a minor actress.

I transmigrated into a book, becoming the child bride who dies early in a period novel.

The child bride's only purpose in the story is to highlight the heroine's kindness, goodness, and happiness.

When the heroine goes to school, the child bride works.

When the heroine comes home from school, the child bride works.

When the heroine eats, the child bride drinks soup.

When the heroine sleeps, the child bride sleeps in a sheep pen!

The child bride barely makes it to eighteen before the heroine's family pushes her off a cliff, so she can be buried in a ghost marriage with the heroine's late older brother...

And that's not all.

Three years later, the child bride's biological father comes looking for her, but mistakes the heroine for his daughter. Feeling guilty, he gives "his daughter" whatever she wants and helps her become the richest person in the country...

In other words, the child bride and even her own father are exploited down to their bones, paving the way for the heroine to become the richest person in the country.

When I arrived, I was already lying at the bottom of a cliff, with my life counting down its final moments. Guided by the basic principle that a miserable life is better than a good death, I began my difficult struggle to survive...

Reader's guide:

1. This story takes place in a fictional setting. Please don't get hung up on historical accuracy.

2. The heroine seems fiery, but she's actually a huge coward, with a very active inner monologue.

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Xiyun, a pretty maid in the Jinyang Marquis's household, was lively, clever, and exceptionally beautiful. Someone framed her for seducing the heir, angering the marquis's wife, who had her beaten to death. But when she opened her eyes, Xiyun had arrived in the unfamiliar 1970s, in the body of Ye Xiyun, a girl who had drowned.

In three days, Xiyun would have to marry in a hurry, wed to the young man who had saved her. He was handsome and proper, and there were no other women around him. Xiyun was satisfied.

Besides, marriage was marriage wherever she ended up. And she would be the legitimate wife she'd always dreamed of becoming. She... she'd do her best to be a good wife.

Nie Xun knew that Ye Xiyun had someone else in her heart. She had even chased after a male educated youth and done all sorts of foolish things. But because of the gossip, he had no choice but to marry her. He decided that after the wedding, he would treat this delicate beauty with icy indifference and keep his distance. They would be husband and wife in name only.

But on their wedding night, Xiyun shyly reached for his buttons.

Nie Xun, who had never been close to a woman, blushed bright red. He was just about to push away this shameless woman.

Then, in the moonlight, Xiyun lifted her head. Her cheeks were rosy, her eyes glimmered, and she smiled sweetly. "Honey, let's go to bed."

The refusal stuck in his throat. Before his mind could catch up, Nie Xun took his new bride's hand and said, "Let's go home."

And that hand stayed in his for a lifetime.

Theme: Self-reliance