I'm Definitely Not in Love With That Second Male Lead

Niannian learns that she is living inside a book. The heroine is her senior apprentice sister, who shares a thousand-year entanglement of love and hate with their master. It is the very definition of a tragic romance. The two take their torrid, bitter love to the extreme, eventually throwing the Three Realms into turmoil and dragging countless people down with them. Niannian: Romance is so scary. What? You're already dating? Then whatever you do, don't break up. She secretly ships the couple, quietly plays matchmaker, resolves every conflict, and acts as an emotional counselor for her master and senior apprentice sister... Niannian thinks she's doing a great job. On the Immortal Execution Platform, her master stands in flowing white robes, gazing at the distant mountains, full of restrained grief. Next, the two will be caught in a cycle of forbidden love and duty to the world, suffering for over twelve hundred chapters. Niannian: Master, Senior Sister really likes you too. Even her underwear has the little bunnies you like. OVO Master: ? Her master brings back a woman who looks almost exactly like her senior apprentice sister. According to the plot, neither of them will ever say what's on their minds, and they'll launch into a 2,100-chapter substitute romance full of, "When I smile, I don't look like her." Niannian: Senior Sister, here's a spoiler. She's the daughter of your seventh great-uncle's niece's brother's cousin. Master saw that you had no one to rely on in the Immortal Realm, so he specially found her to keep you company. =w= Senior Sister: ! Just as everything seems to be going well, Niannian gives her deeply devoted senior brother some earnest advice. "Senior Brother, you absolutely must not fall for Senior Sister, or something terrible will happen." She stops the gift he wants to give Senior Sister from across the room. "Senior Brother, stop giving Senior Sister things." Her senior brother is about to go rescue Senior Sister, but Niannian remembers that this is the key to resolving the tension between her master and Senior Sister, so she firmly blocks the doorway. Until her usually easygoing senior brother asks her, "Gu Niannian, do you like me?" He also says, "Gu Niannian, you're so willful. You're not my type." Now he can't take it back. * Many years later, her senior brother coaxes and cajoles Niannian, hoping to hear her confess her love in some flowery way. "I remember you always stopped me from visiting other female cultivators. Why?" Niannian thinks for a long while, then answers with a perfectly serious expression: "For world peace." Bright and noble on the outside, cunning within x A quirky, spirited young woman [Reading Guide] The senior brother was never in love with the senior apprentice sister. One-on-one romance, happy ending. The original couple stays together. Blurb saved in July 2020. Theme: Don't let romance consume your brain