Here's the blurb for my upcoming novel, The Immortal Venerable Doesn't Want to Derail the Plot ^-^*
-- Blurb --
The biggest regret of Song Jin's life was agreeing to marry the Seventh Prince.
On the day Qingzhou fell, she died beneath her fiancé's arrow, only then realizing that everything had been part of a plot.
Everyone praised the Seventh Prince's great victory. No one cared about the cold bodies beneath the city walls.
Only one person gathered her remains.
Reborn into a new life, Song Jin finally saw the truth and resolved to call off the engagement.
And she had to repay the person who had gathered her remains.
But her benefactor wasn't quite what she seemed...
Why could Song Jin hear her benefactor's thoughts?!
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The person she wanted to repay was the youngest marquis in the realm, Cui Huaiyi, Marquis of Hou of Quling.
He smiled faintly as he held the tip of his sword to her vulnerable throat, taking her for a thief.
In the standoff, their inner thoughts suddenly burst into each other's ears.
[Should I slit her throat with this sword, or stab it into her heart?]
Song Jin: shocked.jpg
W-was that her benefactor's inner voice?
[Benefactor, benefactor! I'm here to repay you. I'm definitely not a bad person!]
Cui Huaiyi frowned slightly. Who's talking?
*
Cui Huaiyi was a man who did as he pleased, always wearing a faint smile that made him impossible to read.
Song Jin had never meant to provoke him.
As the man approached, her heart began to race.
"Does Miss Song think I'm the sort of person who goes around helping others?"
From beginning to end, his interest in her had been driven by ulterior motives.
After spending day and night together, Song Jin finally figured out her feelings and decided to confess to him during the Lantern Festival.
Then the lanterns of countless households shone like stars, and the world around them seemed to freeze.
They stood facing each other by the river and spoke at the same time, after a moment of silence:
"You can hear my thoughts too?!"
Song Jin was stunned. Remembering the embarrassing thoughts she'd had, she wanted to throw herself into the river right then and there.
Maybe she didn't need to confess after all.
*
Cui Huaiyi had never believed in the supernatural, not until he met Song Jin.
But she was already someone else's fiancée.
Cui Huaiyi's expression turned cold as he casually said, "She's only your fiancée. Just break off the engagement."
#She looks like the cat my manor keeps#I want to take her home...
#Don't pretend. I know everything you're thinking!#
-- End --
Upcoming novel: The Immortal Venerable Doesn't Want to Derail the Plot
Shi Hua failed to ascend and got bound to a System. All she had to do was follow the vicious female supporting character's plotline and reach the ending where the overpowered male lead pierced her heart with his sword. Then she could ascend painlessly.
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As the strongest fighter in the cultivation world, Shi Hua thought victory was assured.
Until, at the sect's apprentice-selection ceremony, the male lead said in front of her, "I refuse to take Immortal Venerable Shuyu as my master," then turned around and chose her junior fellow disciple instead.
Shi Hua fell silent, thinking she could still salvage the situation.
But she realized there was something wrong with this overpowered male lead.
According to the plot, the vicious female supporting character was supposed to crush the male lead's golden core and throw him off a cliff, helping him obtain demonic cultivation techniques...
She followed every step correctly, but when she met him again three years later, his golden core was perfectly intact.
Shi Hua saw black.
What on earth was going on?!
*
After her next mission failed, a System bug caused the punishment to be deployed incorrectly, and she and the male lead were both dragged into the demon clan's pleasure den.
Shi Hua stared expressionlessly at the male lead's flushed cheeks, ignoring how his skin had turned pink from the aphrodisiac incense, even as he pressed against her neck, breathing and kissing...
She closed her eyes and recited the Purity Mantra.
In the darkness, a burning hand slowly climbed her trembling back. A kiss steeped in desire landed without warning.
Shi Hua's pupils shook as she heard him say,
"Martial Aunt, please help me..."
*
Wei Shizhou had known from a young age that his life was unfolding inside a storybook.
He had always tried to escape its control.
He also knew he was supposed to hate this vicious female supporting character and keep his distance from her.
But he couldn't control himself.
He watched her fly into a rage when her disciple was injured, and risk her life for a friend's sake, yet treat him with nothing but cool indifference and every vicious trick in the book.
He began to resent it, wishing those eyes would look only at him.
It turned out he'd fallen for Shi Hua much earlier than he'd imagined.
So when he saw himself drive his sword into Shi Hua's heart with his own hands,
Wei Shizhou went mad.
Theme: May none of the choices we make leave us with regrets.
