Xie Yun, the refined and courteous first disciple of the Kunshan Sect, believes he loves someone else and feels only a simple bond between fellow disciples toward the heroine. He repeatedly shuts her out. When she finally gives up and turns to someone else, he goes mad and imprisons her. The heroine is tormented for hundreds of thousands of words, but the story eventually gets a happy ending.
And Xu Ning is that heroine.
Xu Ning: There's something I don't know whether I should say.
[Host, don't curse just yet. We've bound you to the male lead System!]
Xu Ning's eyes light up. Does that mean she can force the male lead to be hers?
[Host, don't get ahead of yourself. Given how things stand, you need to treat the male lead with disdain and break his heart.]
Xie Yun is wondering how to turn down his junior sister when she clears her throat and smiles instead. "Senior Brother, I've thought it through. Actually, I don't like you. I mistook it for love, but then I realized I like Second Senior Brother and Third Senior Brother too. You all seem the same to me."
Xie Yun is devastated, watching helplessly as she walks away with a light step.
[Mission Two: Imprison the male lead!]
Xu Ning is delighted. With her own hands, she fastens a cold collar around the neck of her pure-as-snow senior brother. She happily plays dress-up, admiring his humiliating appearance as he presses his lips together, his lashes quivering, and lies face-down on the floor.
Sitting on the edge of the bed, she tugs the chain and gently strokes the face of the man on the bed. Her eyes are full of reminiscence. [You look like him, but you're not him...]
[Mission Three: Physically torment him!]
Xu Ning: Isn't that a bit much?
[Keep it pure, Host. We're a respectable System with respectable missions!]
While reproaching herself, she happily lets her hands roam over the man in front of her, admiring his flushed face, tearful eyes, and trembling body, as he struggles to resist but can't help losing himself in it!
After Xu Ning's series of outrageous antics, she thinks the male lead, now restored to his full power, will want to kill her with a single sword strike. She never expects him to place the chain attached to his collar in her hand himself.
[Don't leave me. Take pity on me...]
Xu Ning: ?
The mission is complete. Terrified, she runs away at once.
Xie Yun once hated her, but later he hated only that she didn't want him.
He can endure anything, but he cannot endure being abandoned by her. She loves someone else, anyone but him. When he finds her, Xie Yun rests his head against her lower abdomen, his fingertip lingering over her arm. "Either keep me here, or let me keep you."
Xu Ning: What's the difference?
When a chain is fastened around her wrist, she immediately understands...
Theme: Everyone deserves the best.