I Thought I Was in a Crematorium Plot

[Complete. Free bonus chapters are being updated slowly, and the main text is being revised.] This is an old-school cultivation romance with a tragic ending. Zhao Xue's older sister is the story's moonlight, gentle and steadfast. Her younger sister is the heroine's substitute, adorable and willful. And Zhao Xue is an abandoned girl her family picked up from the snow, a nameless cannon-fodder character. After the older sister dies, the male leads seek out the younger sister, who has the same face, and treat her as a substitute, tormenting her at will. The once willful and carefree junior sister falls into madness and is forced to prove her Dao through death. After that, her family falls apart, and one by one, her loved ones leave her. Only Zhao Xue is left. [You cannot escape your tragic fate unless you fulfill the predetermined bad ending.] The System tells her, [Your mission is to take over the roles written for your sisters and "die" in their place.] Zhao Xue thinks, Then I'll offer myself to the demon. * The top Sword Venerable of the Hidden Sword Sect is a genius who knows nothing of love. When he looks at her, his eyes hold only ice that has not thawed in ten thousand years. The spirit born in a secret realm over ten thousand years old has a vile disposition and burns away the first decade and more of her life. The frail, childlike young Demon King is innocent and guileless. After falling to demonic cultivation, he forgets their childhood friendship, and when they meet again, they are strangers. Her fellow disciple, who rose from the mud, is sickly and gloomy. He wipes out her family to bury them alongside the one he loves. In the original story, they rise to exalted positions in the latter half, descend into madness, and wreak havoc across the world. But the System looks at the crematorium-revenge script it prepared for its Host, then at the men in front of Zhao Xue... The aloof and cold Sword Venerable sets aside his pride and blows on the bitter medicine in her white porcelain spoon. "I secretly brought you two candies." The sickly, languid young man braces himself and raises his sword to shield her. "Zhao Xue. Close your eyes." The sharp-tongued, ill-natured spirit rests in her sword and clicks his tongue impatiently. "Hey, I said I'd stay in your sword for the rest of my life... So who is that guy?" Her sickly, gloomy junior disciple kneels obediently before her. "Lift your foot. Put on your shoes." ...Huh? Weren't they supposed to be in a story about maddening, tragic love? Where's the crematorium revenge? Why are you all so indulgent toward her, and so obedient in front of her? This script is all wrong! * Offer yourself to the demon, but the demon never becomes a demon. Later: Zhao Xue: They all hate me. System, exhausted: Yeah, sure. #TheBelovedHostWhoThinksEveryoneHatesHer# Reader's Guide: 1. Beloved-by-all and redemption story, with mutual affection. 2. Plain-language cultivation setting, with a mountain of original worldbuilding. 3. This novel is entered in a coming-of-age writing contest. The heroine is born without spiritual veins and has no potential to become a sword cultivator. But she gradually discovers her talent for talismans and formations, continues to study and improve, and ultimately achieves success in cultivation while overcoming the psychological barriers of her past. ----Coming Soon: The Most Hated Girl at the Elite Academy---- Ji Shu transmigrates into a romance novel set at an elite academy. In the story, she's the vicious supporting girl who bullied the heroine in middle school. After they start high school, the male leads, who are in love with the heroine, punish her by getting their classmates to ostracize her. Verbal taunts, physical abuse... Her ending is a mental breakdown and a leap to her death the day before the entrance exams. - On Ji Shu's first day after transmigrating, a basin of water falls from above the door. An eraser smacks her right in the face. Her notebook is covered in black ink. Then, She gets into a fistfight with the male lead and sends him to the hospital. / "I admit I did those things wrong, and I apologize for them. I'm not asking you to forgive me." "I don't understand." "I mean, you can treat me however you want from now on. That includes hating me." Theme: Make use of one's own agency.