After binding to the System for winning over the villain, Wen Ying transmigrated into a book and became the spoiled eldest daughter of a sect. The villain she had to win over, the Devil Lord who would destroy the world in the story, was currently suffering in the sect.
The seventeen-year-old boy was in a terrible state. Everyone bullied and humiliated him. Wen Ying, who had never known hardship growing up, couldn't bear to watch. To survive, and because she wanted to help him, she began her mission.
Unfortunately, she had arrived three years too late. The kind and lively heroine in the book had reached out to him at his lowest point and had long since become the most important person in his life.
She thought, It's all right. As long as I'm sincere enough, I should succeed, right?
When he was falsely accused of stealing pills and a cultivation manual, she stood up for him and ran around everywhere to clear his name. When the disciples bullied him, she chased them off with her sword and punished them according to the sect rules.
After he trespassed into the sect's forbidden grounds, she took three hundred Spirit-Severing Whip lashes in his place. Her bones and sinews were shattered, and she could never cultivate again. Then she carried him, gravely wounded after saving the heroine, up an entire medicinal mountain. She knelt and begged a vile medicinal cultivator to save him, pounding her head until her flesh was bloody and raw before collapsing from exhaustion.
Later, he returned to the Demon Realm, and she went with him.
She took swords meant for him, fell into the Ghost Cliff for him, and was covered in wounds for his sake. She would even cough up blood after walking only a few steps.
She did everything she could. In the end, she could no longer tell whether she was doing it to complete the mission or because she truly cared for him.
But she still failed.
In his heart, everything she had done could not compare to the paper umbrella that woman had given him on a rainy night.
The day she died, demonic energy scattered around her, and she coughed up blood until she nearly fainted. Most of the demon guards had been sent to protect the heroine, who had thrown a tantrum and run to the Demon Realm.
Only a handful of demon guards were by her side. She died easily.
The moment before her death, the mission had failed completely, but the System did not immediately erase her.
It asked whether she hated him.
She did.
The crackle of electricity came and went in her ear. The System said, Then let him be the one to win you over.
When she opened her eyes again, she was no longer the spoiled eldest daughter of a sect. She was the second daughter of the wealthy Wen family in the mortal realm, vicious and willful, quick to beat and berate the servants.
The villain was a servant of the Wen family, and the heroine was Wen family's concubine-born daughter.
This time, she had not arrived too late. She could reach out to him before the heroine did and make him fall in love with her.
But she merely lowered her eyes and glanced at him, then slowly tore the paper umbrella to pieces and turned away. She had his legs broken and left him standing in the rain all night.
Xie Bujue, this time, you're the one who has to win me over.
Theme: Sorry, I've changed the trope this time T︿T