They're All Waiting for My Husband to Breathe His Last

Bai Tao found a gravely injured man who had lost his memory in the mountains and brought him home.

Once he recovered his memories, he was as proud and aloof as a crane.

But Bai Tao didn't mind. Immortals were allowed to be a little delicate.

She wove him a straw hat to shield him from the sun, made him egg custard to build up his strength, and got up in the middle of the night to brew medicine for him. Everyone said she was foolish.

Bai Tao only smiled.

Later, at the Nine Provinces Immortal Sect,

Bai Tao became Shen Zhihe's beloved before everyone's eyes.

One was a mountain spirit, the other a heaven-blessed prodigy.

He doted on her and loved her, even sharing his life with her through a contract.

No one could understand why, on their wedding day, Shen Zhihe would suffer severed meridians and fall into a coma for the sake of a mere demoness.

-

On the day Bai Tao learned who she was, she heard a strange voice. It told her she was the vicious supporting female character in a melodramatic novel.

It said Shen Zhihe already had a fiancee, and that he would marry Bai Tao to cut out her demon core and take her spiritual nucleus to heal the woman he loved.

It said she would grow to hate him out of love, pursue the male lead's master, deceive the male lead's senior brother, and be denied the love she sought. In the end, she would fall into the demonic path, hated by everyone, and be abandoned as soon as the male lead woke, meeting a miserable end with her body dead and soul destroyed.

Bai Tao didn't understand. She was only trying her best to stay alive.

Yet before Shen Zhihe had even woken, his master kept her by his side in the name of helping her recuperate, while his close friend insisted on investigating the truth.

His senior brother was proper and courteous, but his sword always arrived before he did, stepping in front of her.

Even his mortal enemies, a pair of twins from the demon realm...

They all wanted to see what made her such a rare curiosity.

But one day, they began looking at her strangely.

Bai Tao was sure she was imagining it.

-

At first, before Shen Zhihe fell unconscious, they said:

“...She's far beneath you. She must have designs on you.”

“A life-sharing contract? She isn't worthy.”

“Don't waste your life on her.”

Later, after Shen Zhihe fell unconscious, they said:

“How can a dead man have designs on Yaoyao?”

“A life-sharing contract? You're not worthy of it.”

“Why haven't you died yet?”

[Reading Guide]

1. A resilient, forthright female lead with puppy-dog eyes.

2. A story that lets loose with Mary Sue tropes and melodramatic groveling-after-the-breakup scenes as an outlet.

3. A slow-paced tale of romantic push and pull.

Theme: Your fate is in your own hands.