One day, Chu Yan wakes from a dream and learns that she is the vicious female antagonist in a book.
She has committed countless evil deeds and is hated by the heavens. Her fate is to die by the sword of her senior sister, the daughter of the Heavenly Dao.
The only way to survive is to conquer her senior sister and forge a deep bond with her.
Chu Yan wakes up in a fright.
Because she's facing an extremely difficult predicament...
She has three senior sisters,
and every one of them is at odds with her.
Chu Yan's eldest senior sister took her in and cared for her devotedly. But when the truth came out, Chu Yan discovered that she and her senior sister were actually impostors who had each replaced the other's rightful place. They fought constantly, and their bond fell apart.
Chu Yan's second senior sister was her childhood best friend, but they drifted apart after falling for the same man.
Chu Yan's third senior sister was her strongest rival when she joined the sect. The other woman looked down on her for being ungrateful to the eldest senior sister and insulted her repeatedly, leaving Chu Yan resentful.
How is she supposed to survive if she has to conquer all three senior sisters?
But to stay alive, Chu Yan finally decides to throw caution to the wind and give it a shot.
When her eldest senior sister is about to be punished by their father, Chu Yan shoves her aside and kneels on the broken tiles herself, saying it was all her fault.
When her second senior sister gets red-eyed over that man, Chu Yan helps her write a love letter, practically wishing she could answer on the other woman's behalf.
When her third senior sister gets hurt in a sword fight with her, Chu Yan cradles her hand and blows on it, taking such tender care of her that the other woman suspects she's been possessed and drags her to an exorcist.
So tiring... But surely she acted well, right?
Ten years later, the villain who transmigrated into the book awakens.
The villain transmigrated here with only one goal: to steal the daughter of the Heavenly Dao's fortune.
At first, he tempts Chu Yan, whose character is the weakest, and uses her to set a trap to torment the daughter of the Heavenly Dao, hoping to make her die in agony.
Seeing that the four women's relationships have fallen apart, the villain goes to sleep without a worry.
He never expects that everything will have changed when he wakes up.
Chu Yan has mastered the sword. By her side, her eldest senior sister teaches her the Dao, her second senior sister picks out books for her, and her third senior sister polishes her sword.
When Chu Yan sees him, she shouts, "Sword, come!" and declares, "If you want to hurt my senior sisters, you'll have to get past me first!"
During the days she spent conquering her senior sisters, Chu Yan suffered greatly.
But gradually, she realized that this very process of conquest had corrected the many ways she had gone astray.
She has found her true path.
P.S. A villainess's coming-of-age story.
This blurb was written on 2023.04.19
Theme: Admitting your mistakes and making amends is the greatest virtue.