The Bad-End Script She Wrote for the Male Lead

Tao Tao transmigrates into a revenge novel she stayed up all night reading. In the story, the male lead, Helan Ci, goes through countless hardships to save his older sister, kills his enemy with his own hands, and plants an Immortality Gu in the enemy's daughter to prolong his sister's life. Tao Tao has transmigrated into that unfortunate daughter, the eldest young lady of the Su family. By the time she arrives, the story is already nearing its end. Knowing that Helan Ci will eventually drive seven bone-piercing spikes into her and pin her to a cliff, where she will bleed to death, Tao Tao, who has feared pain all her life, finds Helan Ci and tearfully tells him she isn't the original owner of the body. But Helan Ci only grips her by the throat and smiles cruelly. "You used that trick last month." Tao Tao vaguely remembers that in the original story, the original owner tried every trick to escape Helan Ci's revenge: pretending to be insane, feigning amnesia, faking her own death. She even stabbed her own younger sister to death to prove she was no longer the same eldest Miss Su. Tao Tao cries until she has no tears left, but she still can't prove she isn't the original owner. All she can do is helplessly repeat, "I'm not her." Perhaps Helan Ci grows tired of hearing it. He glares at her viciously. "You're not her, but you're using her body, so you'll pay her debts." Tao Tao despairs. She has taken over the original owner's body, so she ought to clean up the original owner's messes. After that, whether Helan Ci sticks needles into her or tests medicines on her, she no longer resists. She has only one wish: to go home. Later, Helan Ci finally stops caring whether she is a daughter of the Su family. He falls in love with her. He says, "I would drain every drop of blood from my body, break every bone, and forge myself a new body of flesh and blood, just to start over with you." But she no longer wants that. Tao Tao gives a weary smile and, on the day she climbs into the bridal sedan chair sent by Helan Ci, plunges a dagger into her heart, leaving him with a cold corpse. * Three years after Tao Tao returns home, she still doesn't know that Helan Ci went mad when he lifted the sedan's curtain and saw her dead body. Clutching the little doll he made for her with his own hands, he asks everyone he meets, "Have you seen my Tao Tao?" Meanwhile, Tao Tao is herself again, back in her own time, sipping milk tea as she scrolls on her phone, plays games, and reads novels. Another happy day. The husband chases his wife after losing her; happy ending Blurb dated May 14, 2023 Cover used with permission from Ma Jiang Guan Lu C Theme: A shattered mirror still reflects the light; an orchid keeps its fragrance even after it dies