You're Awake, Long Aotian

Wen Nianrui transmigrated into a male power fantasy novel on a certain web-fiction site. To get home, she had to play the role of the weak, beautiful, and beloved woman in the life of the overpowered male lead, Huo Chu. Once he had fallen completely in love with her, she was supposed to stab him and push him off a cliff for the villain. After he cultivated his way to immortality and returned for revenge, built a huge harem, and delivered a satisfying face-slapping to everyone, her mission would be complete.

After ten years of lying low, Wen Nianrui finally saw Huo Chu fall head over heels for her without realizing it.

He carefully kept the jade pendant she had dropped. When she flirted with the villain, his eyes darkened. When she pretended to be asleep, his hand reached toward her, then pulled back... She watched Huo Chu's every struggle and every flicker of affection with cool detachment, understanding it all perfectly.

A beauty needs only a little acting to make you cry. Wen Nianrui was proud of her superb performance. With nothing but feigned weakness and kindness, she had captured Huo Chu's heart. She only had one last scene left, stabbing him, and then she could wrap things up perfectly.

At the edge of the cliff, Huo Chu looked grief-stricken, love and hatred warring within him as a tear slid down his cheek.

Wen Nianrui's hand trembled, and she stabbed a little too deep...

Huo Chu, deceased at the age of eighteen.

*

Huo Chu was eight when Wen Nianrui took him in, making him her personal guard.

Everyone said Miss Wen had a face as lovely as a spring peach and a heart pure and kind. It was a shame she was so frail that she had to cough three times after walking two steps. A beautiful invalid, they called her.

Everyone adored her. He alone hated her, because he knew the truth: her sweet demeanor was all an act. Beneath her beauty was an arrogant and conceited nature; behind her kindness was calculated hypocrisy.

Miss Wen was cruel and vulgar, and liked to toy with people's hearts.

Huo Chu thought he could never love someone like that.

Besides, Wen Nianrui already had someone she loved. They were childhood sweethearts, a perfect match in status, and a brilliant rising star in the cultivation world.

But at some point, when Wen Nianrui ordered him around, he stopped finding it bothersome. When she coughed behind her handkerchief, his heart ached. When she wrote to her childhood sweetheart, he wanted to tear the letter to shreds with his own hands...

Once love reaches its end, there's no turning back. When Wen Nianrui stabbed him for the sake of the man she loved, love turned to death and hatred sprang to life, transforming Huo Chu into Ji Qingchen.

*

The male lead died. Wen Nianrui's plan failed, and she eventually died of illness.

The good news: She came back to life, under a new face and the name Yu Shi.

The bad news: Her mission wasn't over, and she had a new target to win over: Ji Qingchen.

He had the same overpowered male lead's destiny, but unlike Huo Chu, Ji Qingchen was moody and had no sense of right and wrong. Wen Nianrui felt that she was fighting to survive rather than trying to win him over. Her daily mission: Stay alive at Ji Qingchen's hands.

*

Ji Qingchen was the first to recognize Wen Nianrui. Unfortunately, his former beloved hadn't recognized him, and she even had the nerve to try to get close to him and win his love.

Ji Qingchen sneered. No way. Absolutely not.

How could anyone fall into the same trap twice?

A fake white lotus of a heroine, weak and delicate X a hero the heroine treats like a dog

Thanks to my dear friend and fellow writer Wen Jing for the calligraphy!

tips:

1. Both leads are virgins. The characters are flawed.

2. A writing-practice story with romantic rivals and a huge bowl of melodrama!!

3. The blurb may be adjusted slightly.

Blurb screenshotted on 2025.10.3. (The title and character names may be revised, and the blurb may be adjusted.)

Premise: You only realize what something is worth after getting it back.