Living Off a Substitute in a Xianxia Novel

[Upcoming: The Immortal Lord, You're Far Too Easy to Fool] See the blurb at the end

Blurb:

Kong Jia has a cherished first love in her heart.

He is the second male lead in an old novel she read, a cold and striking Immortal Venerable, bright as the moon among the clouds.

Unfortunately, the author abandoned the novel, so she can only look for substitutes in other stories.

This time, she is reading a body-double story. The characters are just as aloof and abstinent, perfect substitutes in every way, yet they are wholeheartedly devoted to the villainous female lead and love her without hope of return.

It is bittersweet and heartbreaking, so tragic that Kong Jia keeps wailing.

Who could have guessed that halfway through the story, Kong Jia would transmigrate into a book?

She has just read that when Immortal Venerable Shi Yuan, who upholds the righteous and suppresses evil, cannot win the one he loves, he brings home a woman who looks seventy or eighty percent like the female lead. In the blink of an eye, she herself becomes that supporting female character.

Kong Jia: Got it, got it. I'm the body-double supporting character. I've read countless novels, so I know exactly what to do.

She decides not to cause trouble or make a scene, and to happily be a little disciple who admires his celestial bearing, enjoying her fresh substitute up close.

She doesn't know that both novels were written by the same author, who changed her secret identity, revised the plot, and picked up her pen again.

In the latter half of this novel, Shi Yuan will fall into demonic ways for love, slaughter all living beings, and become the stepping stone for the female lead's redemption.

The bug-ridden System watches Kong Jia, starry-eyed and lovestruck, with a heavy heart.

How is it supposed to tell its Host that her actual mission is to kill Shi Yuan and stop him from destroying the world?

Shi Yuan has a cinnabar mole in his heart. That figure once saved him when he was defeated, bringing him a warmth he had never known.

But she turned out to be the Holy Maiden of the Demon Realm, and righteousness and evil have been opposed since ancient times.

The only one who resembles his beloved cinnabar mole is an ordinary woman from his sect. Everyone assumes the Immortal Venerable found a substitute to suppress his feelings.

The substitute plays her part diligently, and gradually comes to resemble the figure in his memories.

But how could a mosquito bite ever replace a cinnabar mole?

He decides to make this substitute disappear.

Years later, he follows the cinnabar mole in his heart, intent on proving his demonic nature by slaughtering the righteous.

A flash of swordlight, a sweeping stroke, and someone gently stops his blade.

He looks up. It is the substitute he abandoned long ago.

She smiles, her eyes curving: "Sorry, I was offline before, so I didn't get the mission."

Her sword is faster than his. As its icy blade pierces his heart, the blurred figure in his memories turns around for the first time.

It is Kong Jia.

An author wrote her first novel, but the second male lead was so popular that she couldn't write him out. The plot stalled, and she abandoned it.

The same author wrote a second novel, but the characters awakened to their own consciousness and fought back. The plot fell apart.

With no other choice, she asked a transmigration-into-a-book System for help, asking it to maintain the original story's order.

The System searched among countless people and finally found the person most deeply connected to the character to serve as its Host.

It chose Kong Jia.

Note:

1. I don't like writing scenes where the heroine is abused. The blurb is told solely from the heroine's point of view and represents only part of the truth.

2. The heroine also has romantic tension with someone other than the male lead.

Cover character design: Jin Feng Xi Yu - Xiao Qing

[Please add The Immortal Lord, You're Far Too Easy to Fool and the other upcoming novels in my collection to your favorites]

Meng Tingyou looks worriedly at the young man before her, who is willing to prostrate himself on the ground to please her and keeps saying he would gladly be her dog.

What should she do? What should she do? What should she do?

The plot has gone completely off track. The once stern and untouchable Immortal Lord has now been trained by her into the most obedient little puppy.

Though, she has to admit, he's pretty useful...

It all began when she was forced to transmigrate into a xianxia world and became one of the first testers of a transmigration romance game.

The System tells her the only way to return is to take the life-bound Golden Core of Immortal Lord Xuan Li, the Child of Heaven in this world.

Then crush it.

Stealing the Immortal Lord's Golden Core is far too difficult, so Meng Tingyou decides to take the indirect route and steal his heart first.

The process goes more smoothly than she imagined, to the point that it's becoming hard to bring things to a close.

The System's icy voice keeps urging her to act, or she'll be erased.

Unexpectedly, her actions instead help the Immortal Lord's primordial spirit return to its body. When the handsome and powerful Immortal Lord awakens, his indifferent gaze falls upon her.

"Mortal girl, was it you who attacked me in the lower realm?"

Meng Tingyou: Oh no, I'm done for. I failed to kill him.

System: Congratulations, Host. You've drawn "Try Again." Please approach the Immortal Lord once more and take his Golden Core.

Many years later, Meng Tingyou, the first person to complete the transmigration romance game, tells an interviewer how she won the heart of that aloof Immortal Lord, ultimately ruined his path to the Great Dao, and got away unscathed.

She says, "It takes some effort, some cleverness, and, most importantly, a little bit of genuine affection."

The crowd erupts: "Genuine affection?"

Meng Tingyou smiles and nods. "Yes. Actually, toward this target, I once..."

A voice sounds behind her. "Once what?"

The Xuan Li Immortal Lord, who should be in another world, is standing not far away, watching her silently.

He was deceived twice, yet still chose to shatter the void and follow her trail.

[One-line descriptions of other upcoming novels in my collection:]

1. My Fiance Won't Leave Me Alone: What should you do when your fiancee has wrecked your life, but you still can't help loving her?

2. After the Demon Lord's Furnace Escapes Death: One fire sends the Demon Lord to the crematorium. Burn, burn, burn, burn, burn!

3. Don't Be a Coward: A short, fast-paced modern romance that puts the male lead through the wringer. The entire novel is already written and waiting to be published.

Theme: Resist fate