The Villainess Wins by Doing Nothing

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Character setup: A lovestruck heiress transformed into a career-minded woman x a gentle male lead with the warmth of a devoted husband and a blade hidden beneath his smile.

More than ten years after transmigrating to the modern world, Bai Qingxiang inexplicably transmigrated back again.

On the night she returned, a man fell from the sky and knocked her unconscious, plunging her into a strange dream.

In the dream, she was the foil female character in the storybook The Beloved Koi and the Icy Sword Venerable.

The leads in the storybook were the Sword Venerable Li Che, whom she had admired for ages, and a woman she had never met.

The sect members called that woman their junior sister.

Remembering everything from the dream left her speechless.

She had worked hard as the foil, only for it all to come to nothing, while the koi junior sister lay flat and rose to the top of the world.

The dream ended at their ceremony, where they became cultivation partners. Heartbroken, she choked to death on her wine.

What a ridiculous dream. You'd have to be crazy to believe it!

Besides, she didn't even have a junior sister right now!

The next day, her master returned from his travels, bringing along a sweet and delicate junior sister who looked exactly like the one from her dream.

Bai Qingxiang: Wow.

She thought it was just a coincidence, but everything that followed unfolded just like it had in the dream.

Thinking of how the dream had ended...

Bai Qingxiang sat bolt upright, on the brink of death. Who could put up with this?

Just then, a letter arrived from home. It said something major had happened, and she needed to return at once.

She rolled up her bundle, flipped the table, and quit being the foil female character. Why put up with this nonsense for the sake of some man?

Bai Qingxiang left the Sword Sect and returned home to inherit the family business.

But why had this deadweight who fell from the sky followed her home, too?

She'd only been kind to him once. How had he ended up clinging to her?

Only when she got home did she learn what the major incident was: the enormous tree outside her room had disappeared.

Her father told her that the tree was, in fact, a family heirloom.

Seriously, what kind of family has a tree as its heirloom?

Little scene:

The spiritual medicine gifted to the junior sister by their master went missing.

Since she admired their master and came from a poor family, everyone immediately suspected her.

Facing everyone's accusations, Bai Qingxiang touched the spatial ring on her hand and hesitated.

Maybe she should tell her father to stop supplying the sect with spiritual medicine tomorrow.

They say the senior sister's family farms the land to support her sword training.

They even had to sell the crops from several acres just to pay for her trip to study swordsmanship. How sad.

Later, during a mission that took them past Bai Qingxiang's home, everyone stood amid several thousand acres of spiritual fields and realized that the crops from those supposedly sold acres had been the cheapest ones.

Everyone felt thoroughly embarrassed. Rumors really couldn't be trusted.

As for the deadweight who had attached himself to her, Bai Qingxiang's policy was: don't reject him, don't pursue him, and don't take responsibility for him.

Until, fed up with her father's nagging her to get married, Bai Qingxiang finally asked him:

"Do you want to marry me?"

The person opposite her instantly turned pink, and a pale yellow flower bud suddenly appeared on his head.

He... blossomed?!

# Why bother dating? Women should focus on their careers!

# Building a career is exhausting. Maybe I should just inherit the family business~

# The man I picked up can blossom.

Blurb written on 2023/10/18, revised on 2024/05/26

A few reading tips:

1. The master is not the male lead!

2. There are lots of original additions to the setting.

3. I'll add more if I think of anything else.

One-to-one pairing, sweet everyday romance

--------------------Next story, coming soon--------------------

Speaking of Foxes

A clueless, heartless little fox x a devious, baiting Taoist who is full of tricks

Hu Li is a fox spirit who has cultivated for three hundred years, working herself to the bone but making little progress.

By chance, she finds a few incomplete manuals on human cultivation. They say that her kind can greatly increase their cultivation by absorbing the essence of scholars.

Hu Li gets it. Her cultivation is weak because she hasn't absorbed a scholar's essence.

As it happens, a scholar has just moved to the foot of the mountain.

The laid-back Taoist priest Su Jiuchuan takes on a mission to repay a favor: capture a fox spirit alive.

To finish the mission quickly, he uses himself as bait, dressing up as the sort of scholar fox spirits are said to like, just as the book describes.

But he's been living here for ages. Why hasn't he seen a single fox?

One day, he returns from hunting demons to find several oddly colored fruits on the table, along with a note written in hideous handwriting:

"Hello, may I absorb your essence? This is payment." The signature is a muddy paw print.

As a child, Su Jiuchuan was judged to have the fate of a star of calamity, and should have lived out his life in loneliness.

But then a fox barged into his life and wouldn't leave, no matter how many times he tried to chase her away.

She's so silly. She doesn't even know how to absorb someone's essence. She just gazes at me with those big, hopeful eyes.

What would she do without me?

[Happy ending. Both leads are each other's first and only. A story about falling for someone at first sight.]

#Love at first sight, and still fluttering after all this time

#Blame those incomplete storybooks for misleading the fox!

#Absorbing someone's essence is exhausting. The fox can't get out of bed.

#What do I do? The fox I raised wants to absorb someone else's essence.

Theme: A good life is built with your own hands.