[Warning: The female lead is genuinely a heartless woman. She doesn't feel much guilt.]
[Warning: Although the male lead is also a divine figure and the head of the immortal sects, his characterization differs from Yue He. Yue He is divine and compassionate, yet ruthless and merciless, with an iron will and an uncompromising approach. This story's male lead is truly gentle and divine at the beginning.]
Blurb:
"What people love most is watching a god fall: the altar crumbles, the high walls come down, and the bright moon hanging high in the sky falls into the mud, dragged down into the suffering of ordinary people by the seven emotions and six desires. The moonlight fades, dust covers everything, and after the flames of the eight calamities and nine tribulations burn, nothing remains but ashes."
Yuan Cang, the Venerable Sage, is compassionate toward all under heaven and saves all living beings. He is the head of the immortal sects, worshipped with reverence by all the world.
The System said to Wen Wantang, "Your mission is to make him fall in love with you, drag him down from his divine pedestal, make him suffer the pain of the seven emotions and six desires, and reduce him to ashes."
Wen Wantang: "???"
You're asking a peony who's never even been in love to win over someone this difficult?
She tried every trick she could think of: acting cute, acting seductive, acting innocent, seducing him, drugging him...
But none of it worked. Instead, the Venerable Sage Yuan Cang only grew more distant.
Then, one day, she accidentally let a glimpse of her suffering show. To her surprise, the Venerable Sage Yuan Cang personally lifted her out of the mire.
Wen Wantang understood. The Venerable Sage Yuan Cang hated people who tried to seduce him, but he was willing to reach out and save someone trapped in suffering, someone who couldn't find a way to live.
If he wanted to save her, then he couldn't blame her for what happened next.
She was selfish by nature, always putting herself first. If he wanted to save her, then he could go to hell with her!
Wen Wantang didn't mind reopening the bloody wounds of her past. Little by little, she used them to entice the Venerable Sage Yuan Cang into falling in love with her and experiencing the taste of love.
Even after the Venerable Sage Yuan Cang fell in love with her, she personally ruined his reputation and shattered his Dao heart. She made the whole world believe he'd forced himself on her, and convinced everyone that he, whose Dao heart had always been unwavering, was about to fall into demonic ways. She even turned the world against him, determined to wipe him out.
Yet even so, he still loved her. He still wanted to save her.
Wen Wantang found it laughable.
So, while everyone in the world was hunting the Venerable Sage Yuan Cang, she turned without hesitation and married the husband she'd chosen herself.
Unfortunately, the Venerable Sage Yuan Cang thought she'd been forced into it. He even walked right into a trap to rescue her at the wedding.
She smiled. "Yuan Cang, don't you think you're stupid? I never loved you, and I never needed you to save me. I was never forced into this marriage. From the moment I seduced you to the moment I married today, it was all a scheme to get you killed!"
Then, as she watched him turn to ash piece by piece, she killed him with her own hands.
At that point, Wen Wantang thought her mission was over. She settled down and lived a quiet life with the husband she'd chosen herself.
Then, one day, at the hundredth-day banquet for her and her husband's child,
the Venerable Sage Yuan Cang, who had once been divine and compassionate, held her child in his arms. As all the immortals looked on in terror, he gripped the child's neck and lifted his eyes to her. He smiled at her with the gentle expression of a Buddha lowering his gaze. "Atang, I'm back. Why are you looking at me so fearfully?"
[Reader's guide]:
1. The male lead tries to save the female lead, only to be dragged down from his divine pedestal by her and go to hell with her. It's a contest to see who's crazier.
2. The first sentence of the blurb is from the internet.
3. The male lead's C is based on Chapter 9 of Don't Laugh.
4. The female lead really is heartless and doesn't feel much guilt. She might feel a tiny bit sometimes, but not much.
5. The female lead is FC. The child really is her husband's.
6. The ideas in this story came from this line found online and the later parts of After Reincarnating as the Female Supporting Character in a Master-Disciple Novel, I Realized the Book Was Fake, where A Yuan seduces Yue He.
7. The female lead
Theme: Deceiving someone in love comes with consequences.