Xie Qingqing was an utterly ordinary little white snake, but she transmigrated into a xianxia novel as the golden finger spirit beast of a good-for-nothing male lead.
The good-for-nothing male lead was told by the System that he would find an injured divine beast in a secret realm and make a contract with it.
After going through untold hardships to enter the secret realm, the male lead found no trace of the tall, mighty divine beast the System had described. All he found was Qingqing, lying on the ground, barely alive and no thicker than a finger.
Qingqing: Squeak.
The male lead, furious, stomped on her and left.
Just as Qingqing's body was about to be eaten away by ants, she saw a tall man walking toward her.
The man lifted her out of the ant pile. Qingqing said gratefully, "I owe you a debt of gratitude for saving me. How can I repay you?"
The man smiled. "Make me fall in love with you, and I'll let you go."
Qingqing: "..."
Only later did she learn that the man in the black robe embroidered with a huge flower, holding a long, slender pipe, was Yan Jingyun, the biggest villain in the whole book.
Yan Jingyun was mean, wicked, and shameless beyond measure.
Qingqing heard that to win someone over, you should bring them food, so she carefully prepared a newborn mouse for Yan Jingyun.
Qingqing heard that to win someone over, you should give them clothes, so she offered him her freshly shed snake skin.
Qingqing heard that to win someone over, you should tend to their wounds, so while he slept, she stuck out her venomous tongue and licked his wounds...
After all that, Yan Jingyun still said it wasn't! Enough!
Qingqing: "What will it take for you to fall in love with me?"
Yan Jingyun pointed at her. "Sleep with me."
Xie Qingqing slept with him, but Yan Jingyun still said he didn't love her.
Then came the day when the great villain Yan Jingyun was fated to be slain by the original male lead. Qingqing took the heavenly punishment meant to pierce him with ten thousand arrows.
"Yan Jingyun," she said, "this is the last thing I can think of. If you still don't love me, then I'm out of ideas."
Xie Qingqing didn't die after the heavenly punishment. She returned to the secret realm and lived happily for a hundred years before hearing that, after her death, Demon Lord Yan Jingyun had gone on a killing spree, destroyed the Taining Sword Sect, and turned thousands of miles around into a barren wasteland, burying his beloved with him.
Everyone in the Six Realms knew that before killing someone, Demon Lord Yan Jingyun would always say one thing:
"In case she's dead, take these words with you to the Netherworld and deliver them to her.
I, Yan Jingyun, loved Xie Qingqing most of all in this life."
#Not a groveling-after-the-breakup story, actually a sweet romance
#Blurb written on 2023/2/5
Theme: Love should be sincere