After dying once, A Ning finally learned that she was the foil to the chosen female lead in an old-school xianxia novel.
She had concealed her identity to enter an immortal sect, yet she schemed against the heroine at every turn and committed every kind of misdeed. In the end, the righteous factions hunted her down, and she died beneath a storm of swords.
Given another chance, she had no choice but to cling to the powerful villain if she wanted to stay alive: Xie Yunzhi, the one and only beloved male supporting character in the book whom the heroine never won over.
Everyone said he had the Great Dao in his heart, and was compassionate and gentle as a bodhisattva.
But A Ning accidentally saw him beneath the moonlight, elegantly wiping blood from his pale fingers, his smile as chilling as a rakshasa demon.
"Little monster, lying makes your hair fall out."
Dandelion spirit A Ning clutched all the fluff on her head. What a shock! The big shot had seen through her true form at a glance!
After that, whenever the big shot killed without batting an eye, A Ning wiped away his blood. Whenever he secretly assassinated someone, A Ning covered for him.
When the big shot tricked A Ning into an enemy ambush, A Ning... pretended not to notice, struggled her way out, and even covered up the hole behind her.
And that was how A Ning managed to survive until the ending.
On the day the Abyss of Demon Refining opened, A Ning heard many voices:
"How could the Dao Lord really fall for her? He only put up with having her by his side until this day, so he could trick her into using her living blood to sacrifice to the abyss."
A Ning nodded in understanding. So this was why Xie Yunzhi had lied to her. But what did that have to do with her? She had already completed her mission.
So, amid everyone's astonished stares, A Ning jumped down without the slightest hesitation, happily faking her death and never looking back.
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Two hundred years later, A Ning was reborn as a demon lord, planting fluffy creatures all over her mountainside and living as freely and happily as she pleased.
A handsome new disciple at the demon palace told A Ning that a Dao Lord surnamed Xie from the immortal sect had recently died for love.
A Ning nodded, then smoothly reached for his hand. "Perhaps you like white fluff?"
A Ning would never know that two hundred years ago, the unsullied Dao Lord Xie Yunzhi had revealed his asura form before the whole world and followed her into the abyss.
Nor would anyone know that he spent two hundred years slaughtering every evil ghost in the Abyss of Demon Refining, sacrificing his life and cultivation, all to bring back one tiny fluffy monster.
[Important]
In the early part of the story, the male lead is a genuinely unhinged villain who lacks empathy. After the female lead is reborn, he goes to the demon palace to pursue his wife.
Theme: Becoming a better version of yourself through love.
