After transmigrating into the villainous, throwaway background character whose death was mentioned in passing in an old-fashioned cultivation novel she had abandoned, Tang Suihan struggled desperately to change her doomed fate.
After making countless efforts and sacrificing a pair of eyes, she managed to escape her death.
But not the social death.
Those overpowered golden fingers, and the names and settings steeped in old-fashioned tropes, kept provoking her fragile nerves.
Just as she was growing numb and starting to give up and accept it all, the villain's attitude toward her began to grow stranger and stranger.
Ling Yuan had noticed the change in Tang Suihan's personality when she was twelve. At first, he assumed she had simply come up with some new way to torment him. Even after she pushed him away without hesitation, causing demonic energy to invade his body and leave him blind, he still thought she was putting on an act.
But as they spent more time together, more and more strange things about Tang Suihan came to light.
By now, it no longer mattered whether she was still the Tang Suihan he had once known.
He only hoped that when she saw the light again, he would be standing on the side of the righteous immortal sects, just as she wanted.
Not like this, covered in blood.
Tang Suihan: Weren't you supposed to be just a little sister?
Ling Yuan: A little sister I love is still a little sister.
A recommendation for my completed novel, "Half-Demon"
Tang Xiaobao was born different from other people. She had a spiritual bone from birth, and without cultivating, her physical body was already on par with that of a Golden Core immortal. She was born to cultivate immortality, and if she could draw spiritual energy into her body, her cultivation would advance by leaps and bounds.
But that never happened.
The first time she tried to draw spiritual energy into her body, she spat blood and fainted on the spot.
Her master hurriedly invited a divine doctor to diagnose her.
The doctor looked at her in astonishment. "A short-lived girl born with a spiritual bone? Heaven gave you a gift but forgot to give you a bowl to eat from. Ha ha!"
Seven-year-old Tang Xiaobao was so angry at his "ha ha" that she spat blood.
The doctor continued, "Still, it's not hopeless."
"If you live as an ordinary person, with no open meridians, no entry into the immortal sects, and no fall into the demonic path, you can still live to sixty or seventy without much trouble."
She refused to accept it. "What if I want to cultivate?"
The doctor's jade flute came down on her head, giving her a light tap. "Then we'll have to see how long that little body of yours can hold out."
Only later did she learn that a half-demon's body could bear neither spiritual nor demonic energy. She was destined to live as an ordinary person.
To be safe, the doctor sealed every meridian in her body, preventing the demonic power that might seep out as she grew older from overwhelming her.
Theme: Hard work brings hope.
