Jin Ling is the wicked supporting female character in a storybook. The System gives her just one task: seduce the heroine’s man and rack up enough Hatred from the male lead.
As luck would have it, the heroine is her own cousin.
And the man she has to seduce, her cousin’s future husband, is Li Wenchao, heir to the Prince of Changling.
The System promises that once Li Wenchao’s Hatred reaches 100%, it will grant her one wish.
The problem is, Li Wenchao was born with a sweet temper. He’s wooden and proper, as easy to push around as a soft persimmon.
Jin Ling hits him, insults him, and bullies his precious cousin right in front of him. She tries every underhanded trick she can think of. In the end, she even forces him into a secret affair without a matchmaker’s blessing.
And Li Wenchao just smiles and indulges her. His Hatred on the System’s panel remains at **0%.
Jin Ling: System, is he even human?
System: You do not have permission to view that information.
With Li Wenchao’s wedding to her cousin fast approaching, Jin Ling can’t bear to waste any more effort on him. She doesn’t want the wish anymore, either.
After putting up with Li Wenchao for so long, Jin Ling takes stock and vows never to touch another dull, wooden man again. She turns around and finds herself a lively, cheerful husband instead.
On the day of her betrothal, Li Wenchao stands before her amid the roaring crowd and smiles as he wishes her a happy marriage and many children.
But when no one is looking, he leans close to her ear, his voice cruel:
“Once you’re a widow, meet me at our old place.”
In the next instant, Li Wenchao is smiling gently again. Jin Ling is so stunned she thinks she must have misheard him.
Then the System suddenly comes back to life: Permission unlocked.
Male Lead Li Wenchao:
[Hatred: 100000%]
[Corruption: 100000%]
[Affection: 25%]
So Hatred hadn’t started at zero at all!
Reaching 100% meant she was supposed to win Li Wenchao over and try to bring it down to 100%!
Damn it, she’d done so many things to provoke him.
Unable to accept it, Jin Ling promptly fainted.
Meanwhile, the System issues a new task: Survive the smiling tiger male lead.
Later, Jin Ling grits her teeth and tries to appease Li Wenchao. At last, she manages to keep the lunatic under control, and his Corruption gradually falls to 40%.
Just as she’s about to complete the task, she walks into Li Wenchao’s room with a smile, ready to cut ties with him once and for all.
But Li Wenchao is standing in the shadows, smiling as he taps the System panel:
Ding!
New task: Stay by the male lead’s side for life.
Love him, cling to him, and keep him as the only one in your heart.
[An all-out troublemaker beagle girl x A smiling tiger, colorless, odorless, and deadly poisonous]
Both are inexperienced in love.
Coming soon: After Ten Years of Being Kept Against Her Will
In the tenth year of being kept against her will by Cang Heng, the righteous immortal lord praised by everyone in the cultivation world loses his memory. His recollections stop at the age of twenty.
Everything happens so suddenly that Xie Qiufeng, locked away in Cang Heng’s cave abode, has barely figured out what’s going on before the elders of her sect throw her out in the middle of the night.
The elders want to get rid of her while Cang Heng no longer remembers her, before she can cause them more trouble.
The reason is simple. Back then, Cang Heng wanted to become Dao companions with Xie Qiufeng, an obscure little cultivator, and everyone was left dumbfounded.
When Xie Qiufeng refused, Cang Heng turned around and imprisoned her in his immortal abode.
From then on, the peerless sect prodigy Cang Heng, admired by all and seemingly without a flaw, fell from grace. The incident left an indelible stain on his reputation.
Finally free of his control, Xie Qiufeng lets out a long sigh of relief:
I’ve never thought those old men looked so agreeable.
With a blade of grass between her teeth and a sword on her back, she sets off to roam the martial world once more.
But Xie Qiufeng never expected the martial world to be so small.
She hasn’t been roaming for more than a few days when she runs into Cang Heng on the way to hunt a demon.
When they meet again, they stare at each other in silence.
Cang Heng gazes at her, stunned for a moment, then solemnly puts a hand on her shoulder, making Xie Qiufeng shudder.
“You have a Twin Spirit-Locking Gu inside you...”
“Who could be so despicable as to take away someone’s freedom?”
Watching Cang Heng’s righteous indignation, Xie Qiufeng manages an awkward laugh.
Truly worthy of being the leader of the righteous path.
Though could it be that Cang Heng, leader of the righteous path, is actually the culprit?
Xie Qiufeng is at a loss over how to remove the Gu, so she coaxes him: “Immortal Lord, help me.”
Cang Heng declares righteously, “I’ll do everything I can to help you.”
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From then on, the two set out to find a way to remove the Gu.
Whenever Xie Qiufeng looks at Cang Heng’s face, she remembers the ten years she spent imprisoned and feels a chill run down her back.
Unable to feel at ease, she starts picking her feet in front of him and goes ten days or half a month without bathing.
Every now and then, she jokingly advises him:
A genius like you should cultivate the Heartless Dao.
Seeing Cang Heng’s righteous and resolute expression, Xie Qiufeng is reassured.
The day they find a clue, Xie Qiufeng searches the entire secret realm but fails to find the spiritual treasure that can remove the Gu.
She turns around. Cang Heng is standing behind her, smiling inscrutably:
“Looking for this?”
The next moment, the spiritual treasure crumbles to ash in his hand.
Male lead’s point of view:
After losing his memory, Cang Heng feels as if there’s an empty space in his heart.
Until he meets Xie Qiufeng.
Cang Heng follows behind Xie Qiufeng, watching people come and go around her, watching her slip away without warning, spend a few days fooling around with someone, then return to him with a bright smile.
In a fleeting moment, he seems to understand why that “former self” planted this unsolvable Gu in Xie Qiufeng.
Later, he remembers everything.
Resentment wells up within him.
Theme: A good attitude can make a lifetime.
