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In xianxia novels, there are often senior disciples like this:
Beautiful, talented, and beloved by everyone in their sect, they seem destined for a bright future, only to stray into demonic paths over a moment's folly, die, and become the laughingstock of the world.
Jiang Qiu was unlucky enough to transmigrate into the body of such a senior sister, but she got a System eager to help her change her fate.
System: "Go for it, Jiang Qiu! Beat up your junior sister, kick the Demon King, marry your junior brother, and climb to the peak of life!"
Jiang Qiu: "...Let me check the plot first."
Thirty seconds later.
The System inexplicably disconnected. With no knowledge of the plot and no memories, Jiang Qiu was forced to play the part of the senior sister.
The demon-exorcism ceremony was a hassle, so Jiang Qiu brought in an iron wok. "It's our generation's duty to innovate."
A new disciple couldn't bring himself to attack a demon wearing human skin. At the critical moment, Jiang Qiu arrived, pierced its heart with her sword, then chopped off its head. Frustrated by his lack of backbone, she said, "If you hesitate, you'll be the one who dies."
Her junior sister, who had always been jealous of her, was taken hostage by a demon overcome by lust. Jiang Qiu smiled as she loosened her sash. "If you want to take her, why not take me instead?" Then, while the demon was distracted, she crushed it to dust from head to toe.
Jiang Qiu thought she was just coasting through life. She never expected her sect to value her more and more, her junior brothers and sisters to adore her more and more, or even the Demon King, tender on the surface but ruthless at heart, to cling to her and refuse to let go.
Jiang Qiu: "..." She smiled with great effort.
*
The Demon King had been sleeping soundly when an inexplicable voice in his head woke him.
System: "Hello, Host! Transmigration-into-a-book System SB9452 is delighted to serve you!"
From it, he learned what his future was supposed to be: the girl he loved would pierce his core with her sword, and only in the final moments before his death would he learn that she had been with him only for the chance to kill him.
The Demon King: Interesting.
"Very well. I'll kill her."
The Demon King smiled. "The same way."
*
Several years later.
The battered Demon King, enduring the agony of a thousand arrows piercing his heart, staggered up the mountain, leaving bloody footprints with every step. He came before the Qingxiao senior sister who, according to rumor, had abandoned him.
The Demon King took her hand and gently pressed it against his chest, where his demon core lay.
The young man smiled bleakly, his breath faint. "Sister, kill me."
"I'm willing to die for you, Sister, but you can't ignore me."
This is the current draft of the blurb. It may be revised when I start posting, but the core of the story should stay the same.
2023/3/30
Theme: Nothing is impossible.
