I Courted the Merman Second Male Lead Before Faking My Death

New story: My Master Cultivates the Heartless Dao. Gentle, alluring moonlight × gloomy sword master of the Heartless Dao. Please add it to your collection~

The entire story has been revised. Here's the blurb:

1.

Jiang Cibing transmigrated into a book as a supporting female character. Her mission wasn't to win over the male lead or frame the heroine. She had to win over the cool and aloof second male lead.

The good news: The second male lead, Xie Hanyi, was her father's senior disciple, and they had grown up together.

The bad news: She was a wicked junior sister who took pleasure in bullying and tormenting Xie Hanyi.

Jiang Cibing: That's pretty bad. (Let me think about this.)

System: He also has a moonlight in his heart.

Jiang Cibing: No big deal, no big deal. (Maybe I should give up?)

System: Your adoptive father killed his parents and abused him for years.

Jiang Cibing: I'll lie flat and accept my fate. (Let's just end it all!)

System: You can choose Plan B: fake your death and save the world through your sacrifice.

Jiang Cibing: ?

The weather was beautiful that day. As Jiang Cibing leaped into the corpse-strewn sea of flames shrouded in evil energy before Xie Hanyi, the wisps of hair by her ear lifted in the wind, and her body was as light as a pale butterfly.

Perhaps the tears welling in her eyes as they gazed at each other through the scorching air blurred her vision, and she imagined the helpless, shattered despair on his face. Perhaps the fear of death made her ears ring. In that instant, the notification that sounded wasn't "Conquest failed," but "Congratulations, my lord. Conquest... successful."

2.

Xie Hanyi was half-human, half-merfolk, rejected by both races. Only his childhood friend had ever treated him sincerely. When she disappeared, his heart gradually froze over.

His junior sister looked like someone from his past, but she was wicked and foolish, and he only wanted to stay away from her. Yet from the day she arrived at the Reflection Cliff, she began to resemble that person more and more.

What game was she playing at now?

Why did she always choose to sacrifice herself? Why did she keep deciding on her own to leave him behind? Why did she always tell him to live well?

Why, why, why!

He would search the heavens above and the underworld below. He would burn his life away with merfolk blood. He would bring her soul back no matter what!

3.

When Jiang Cibing was found and sealed inside a lotus seed, she saw a white-haired demon with crimson eyes.

The demon carefully changed the spiritual water around the lotus seed. His gaze was obsessive and unhinged as he sat beside it with a lamp, motionless. Blood dripped from his wrist into the wick. His skin was deathly pale, his blood bright red, a horrifying sight.

The day she sprouted, the demon was overjoyed, and blood flowed from him like water. A vast formation centered on her, and the two of them made a contract.

His voice trembled, his gaze inscrutable. "You'll never leave me again."

A powerful, long-lived merfolk demon lord made a master-servant contract with a tiny flower sprout that could be snapped with a single pinch.

She was the master, he the servant. All so their souls and bodies could stay together forever.

Theme: The more deeply one loves, the more steadfast that love becomes.