Everyone in the cultivation world knows that Ying Fuyue, the senior sister of the Piaomiao Sect, is not only breathtakingly beautiful and gentle as water, but also exceptionally powerful. With a single soul lamp, she can drive away every evil spirit under heaven.
But no one knows that she is actually sharp-tongued, two-faced, and overflowing with negativity. She smiles on the outside, while the resentment inside her could rival that of a vengeful ghost.
In a sect where her fellow disciples treat her as their role model and her elders hold her up as an exemplar, Ying Fuyue can't afford to disappoint them with a single word or deed. She has to maintain her upright, noble image to ensure that she becomes the sect's one and only designated successor.
That is, until a new disciple joins the Piaomiao Sect.
Chi Yingying is lively, sweet, and carefree, like a little sun drawing everyone in the Piaomiao Sect to her. One by one, the eyes that used to follow Ying Fuyue turn away.
Ying Fuyue: Whatever. I'm still going to be the next sect leader.
Then, during one of the immortal sects' grand tournaments, demons suddenly run amok. While saving her fellow disciples, Ying Fuyue is stabbed through her core by a demon disguised as a mortal.
Ying Fuyue: ...Wasn't I a candidate to become sect leader? I died way too suddenly!
Only after being stabbed does she find out that the world she lives in is a cultivation novel, with keywords like "angsty romance," "rekindling an old flame," and "winning back your wife at the crematorium"...
Of course, none of that has anything to do with her. She's just a wage-slave who appears in the early part of the story.
The novel's main couple is Chi Yingying and her obsessive junior, Gu Youshu. Ying Fuyue is the deceased white moonlight in Gu Youshu's heart, a mere seasoning for their tangled love and hate.
What candidate to become sect leader? What ruling the cultivation world? None of it is hers.
Ying Fuyue looks at the wound in her chest and faints on the spot. Got it. A plot-mandated death.
But she doesn't die.
Ying Fuyue opens her eyes to find herself lying on a bed. A refined, handsome man sits across from her, watching with a calm expression.
"Miss Ying, would you be willing to change our fates together?"
Ying Fuyue: ?
Yu Quechen, the master of Yaoguang Peak on Canglang Mountain, is a refined and easygoing gentleman, handsome and gentle, with peerless swordsmanship and an air of nobility. But no one knows that he is actually vindictive, insincere, and ruthless.
One day, Yu Quechen suddenly learns that he is a character in a novel. Unfortunately, he isn't the protagonist.
He's the unattainable white moonlight in the heroine Chi Yingying's heart, a stepping stone on someone else's path to love. In the finale, he'll save the heroine by sacrificing himself, earning tears from both her and the readers as the second male lead.
Yu Quechen, after learning the plot: ...Keep dreaming!
To escape this melodramatic fate, he does his best to avoid the plot, yet still gets dragged into the protagonists' tangled love and hate.
Just then, he discovers that someone else has been assigned an equally melodramatic fate.
Yu Quechen: "Miss Ying, would you be willing to change our fates together?"
The pale woman sitting on the bed is silent for a long moment, then replies, "Fine. Give me thirty thousand spirit stones so I can return to the Piaomiao Sect. Once I become sect leader and unite the cultivation world, I'll make you an honorary elder!"
Yu Quechen: ???
Ying Fuyue's first impression of Yu Quechen: gentle, polite, approachable, a perfect gentleman.
Yu Quechen's first impression of Ying Fuyue: cool, beautiful, gentle yet strong, a graceful lady.
After spending some time together:
Ying Fuyue and Yu Quechen: What happened to being the protagonists' white moonlight?!
Ambitious heroine x petty hero, both sweet on the outside and scheming underneath.
My take on the xianxia genre, with plenty of original worldbuilding.
Theme: My fate is mine to control, not Heaven's.
