Junior Sister, You Don't Have to Follow the Script

Female lead's perspective:

Being a spy sounds exciting, but what if you later discover it was all a misunderstanding?

As the junior sister of Little Cloud Peak, Wu Qingli has been doted on since childhood. The only person who has ever gotten the better of her is her nemesis, Xie Jingchen.

One day, Wu Qingli hears about a sneaky way to confess to your sworn enemy and immediately puts it into practice.

She is very pleased to see Xie Jingchen looking embarrassed and furious beneath the peach tree. But before she can properly tease him, she accidentally swallows a pill and passes out.

When Wu Qingli wakes up, she has lost all her memories and discovers that she isn't a junior sister at all, but a spy from Qianling Mountain!

The evidence? The Three Demons Record and a voice-transmitting jade, of course!

Taking up her role as a spy, Wu Qingli acts like a sweet, obedient junior sister in front of her senior brothers and sisters. In secret, she uses the jade to report her spy diary to her contact at Qianling Mountain... Er, to a senior brother named Xie Jingchen.

Later, after recovering her memories, Wu Qingli wants to shake some sense into her past self: Wake up! The Three Demons Record is a storybook! A storybook! Stop taking it as a script!

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Male lead's perspective:

Being confessed to isn't a bad thing, but what if the person confessing is your sworn enemy?

Xie Jingchen has been very troubled lately.

Along with the humiliation and anger of being teased, there seems to be some other feeling he can't quite put into words...

Before he can sort out his jumbled thoughts, he hears that Wu Qingli has lost her memory.

At first, Xie Jingchen thinks it's another one of her tricks, but then he realizes that Wu Qingli really has changed.

After losing her memory, she remembers only him. She uses the voice-transmitting jade to share the big and little details of her day with him, smiles and sweetly calls him Senior Brother Jingchen, and becomes especially close to him when they travel together...

Xie Jingchen feels as though he has fallen into a jar of honey, giddy with happiness.

It seems... it really seems like she likes me.

Later, Xie Jingchen, convinced that his feelings are mutual, gathers his courage and says to Wu Qingli, "Junior Sister Qingli, I... I like you too."

Wu Qingli's expression shifts from confusion to shock. After a long pause, she says solemnly, "Senior Brother Jingchen, our great plan isn't finished yet. We can't get distracted by romance!"

Xie Jingchen: ?

Pure-hearted male lead who talks himself into it x dramatic female lead, one-on-one romance, both virgins

Coming soon in my collection: Savior, But the Saintess of the Demon Realm. Please add it to your reading list! Here's the blurb~

Qu Fusang is the Saintess of the Demon Realm. In truth, she has only the title and no real power. She is a good-for-nothing cultivator with nothing but her beauty, yet she has never really had to suffer.

That's thanks to a puppet left to her by the former Lord of the Demon Realm: her father.

If some arrogant nobody comes looking for trouble, Qu Fusang points a slender finger. "A Jin, go beat him up!"

The nobody runs away in tears.

If she's in a bad mood and goes to a human town without any money to spend, Qu Fusang doesn't panic at all. "A Jin, find a way to earn some spirit stones."

An incense stick later, Qu Fusang is enjoying a luxurious hot spring bath scattered with flower petals, living the life of an immortal.

The puppet can even help Qu Fusang avoid an arranged marriage. She points at Wen Zhijin, who stands beside her with perfect features and cultivation on par with a Nascent Soul cultivator. "Sorry, A Jin is my minimum standard. You can't possibly be worse than him, can you?"

The many suitors lining up from the Demon Palace all the way to the Demon Mound: "...Never mind."

With Wen Zhijin by her side, Qu Fusang spends seventeen carefree years.

But one day, a powerful cultivator from the cultivation world comes to her and says that a calamity is about to befall heaven and earth, and only she can avert it.

Qu Fusang, who is eating grapes and reading a romance story, freezes. Then she looks doubtful. "Me? Are you kidding? I'm the Saintess of the Demon Realm!"

Even so, the Demon Realm hands Qu Fusang over to the powerful cultivator, and she sets out with several righteous cultivators on their so-called journey to save the world.

Fine, she thinks. She can treat it as a sightseeing trip, since A Jin will be with her anyway.

But her fantasy falls apart not long after they set off.

Wen Zhijin's cultivation is slowly fading!

How can this be! Without Wen Zhijin, how is she any different from a fish on a chopping board?

Qu Fusang has no choice but to save the world alongside those annoying righteous cultivators while trying to restore Wen Zhijin's cultivation.

Later, many evil spirits are vanquished, and Wen Zhijin's cultivation is restored... No, Qu Fusang can't shake the feeling that something about the new A Jin is different. A Jin is still the same puppet bodyguard who obeys her every command, but gradually he has developed a heartbeat and a human body temperature. He has begun to feel joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness, and the way he looks at her...

Her puppet has come to life.

Gentle puppet x beautiful, foolish Saintess of the Demon Realm

Theme: After growing through hardships, everyone will find their own direction.