To Avoid the Redemption Route, I Decided to Die!

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Yun Shuyue has diligently cultivated for most of her life, spending twenty years as a cultivator.

Then one day, a "System" claiming it could take her home suddenly appears in her head.

According to the System, her world is just a book. She was pulled into it by an accident decades ago, spent twenty years as the Yun family's eldest daughter, and became an important character in the story.

The book's ending: after enduring eighty-one trials, three protagonists who were humiliated and trampled into the mud finally become powerful figures in the cultivation world, each ruling over their own corner of it.

To return to the real world, she has to complete her character's mission: save the protagonists when they are being humiliated, let them feel the warmth of the world, and become the white moonlight who gives them the strength to keep going.

The eldest Yun daughter, who has always been the one others try to please: ...

She presses her lips together, ready to quit on the spot.

After the System begs and pleads, Yun Shuyue finally gives in: she can be their white moonlight, but she will not save them. All three are being humiliated, so why should she get involved with them?

Avoiding the redemption plot is simple, Yun Shuyue thinks. She just has to become their white moonlight before all that happens, then fake her death and go home.

However, she discovers that the three protagonists are: her childhood friend, whom she has never liked; a mad demon lord from the Demon Realm who keeps threatening to kill her; and the aloof, unfeeling seer from the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion.

Yun Shuyue: ... Great. This is worse than the world ending.

Fortunately, none of them have fallen from grace yet.

*

Being someone's white moonlight takes skill.

From then on, Yun Shuyue runs around comforting people and rescuing them in dramatic fashion.

Things go smoothly. She and her childhood friend are inseparable, she and the demon clan's young lord are sweet as honey, and she and the seer are perfectly in tune...

But it seems, maybe, probably, something has gone wrong. It looks like they are about to start fighting...

There's no time to lose! Yun Shuyue fools all three of them once again and decides to fake her death right away, leave this dangerous place, and wave goodbye to the cultivation world.

*

Wei Yu is a cultivation-world prodigy, a man as graceful as an orchid and a tree, with astonishing talent and beauty.

But one day, he begins to realize that his childhood friend, who loves causing him trouble, is acting strangely.

The Yun family's eldest daughter claims she likes him. Wei Yu just thinks she has found some new game to play. He presses his lips together, his brows lowering as he decides Yun Shuyue is beyond help. He treats her even more harshly.

That is, until that day.

Flames engulf everything. Even the little corner of the roof is swept away by the leaping fire and reduced to ash.

Wei Yu chokes, barely able to breathe. His fingers claw desperately at the stone wall Yun Shuyue has braced herself against. Eyes red and fingertips bleeding, he is still dragged out of the fire.

His whole body stiff, he falls to his knees before the flames. The fire reddens the corners of his eyes, and then, as if he can no longer hold it in, he coughs up a mouthful of blood.

*

Yun Shuyue fails to return home. The "System" in her head seems to have lost contact, as if it never existed. Fortunately, she finds a handsome husband who is supposedly a fellow transmigrator into a book.

He is gentle and considerate, looking after her in every way. Life is at least bearable.

Then, one day...

She opens the door, and someone is suddenly standing outside.

Wei Yu's lips are pressed tightly together. His fingers grip the door so hard their knuckles turn red as he calls her "Shushu."

Yun Shuyue is so frightened she hardly dares breathe. The next moment, someone grabs her by the shoulder and pulls her into a warm embrace.

Her husband smiles, good-naturedly asking, "Can I help you? You're looking for my wife?"

Then, under the other man's unrelenting stare, he affectionately presses the tip of his nose to Yun Shuyue's. "Oh, right. Two other people came looking for you a while ago. They didn't seem like good people, so I sent them away. Are they old acquaintances of yours?"

Yun Shuyue: ...

Under the weight of two gazes, she struggles to swallow.

Fantasy story coming soon: [I Became My Rival's White Moonlight Ex-Wife During His Tribulation]

Ling Yihe is the beloved little princess of the Liguang Clan, born to a life of privilege. Her path to immortality has been smooth sailing.

Immortal pills and spiritual artifacts: at the little princess's command, someone will bring them to her. Someone will even undergo her tribulation for her.

In her two hundred years as an immortal, her greatest setback has been repeatedly losing to the Peerless War God of the Immortal Court. After several defeats, she has become his sworn enemy, and the two cannot stand each other.

The Peerless War God, Qi Yingqi, is solitary and aloof, showing no mercy to anyone. His cold heart is famous throughout Heaven and Earth, and he presides over the law.

Word has it that he comes from a tragic family background and has no one. He overcame his tribulation and ascended entirely on his own. The immortals assume he simply cannot stand the rotten behavior of a well-connected princess like Ling Yihe.

They have been at each other's throats for over two hundred years, and the other immortals have suffered for it. So they decide that when Qi Yingqi undergoes his tribulation, they will trick Ling Yihe into descending to the mortal realm too, then bind the two of them together with an unbreakable bond and make them bury the hatchet.

*

In the mortal realm, Ling Yihe loses all her memories and is harmed by villains. With no other choice, she marries a stranger.

Fortunately, her new husband is exceptionally handsome and treats her well, so she goes along with it and enjoys a few happy years together.

Until one day, she suddenly remembers that she is a goddess from the Immortal Court, and her husband is the sworn enemy she has not spoken to in ages.

Furious and anxious, Ling Yihe immediately wants to die and return to the Immortal Court. She also wants to thoroughly disgust Qi Yingqi. After mulling it over, she comes up with a great idea.

Rebels surround the city. First, she makes a heartfelt declaration of love to Qi Yingqi, then jumps off the city wall in front of him. Even as she faces death, she insists it is all because she loves him.

Finally, her immortal soul leaves her body. Seeing the redness at the corners of Qi Yingqi's eyes, she feels she has won one round at last, and feels a little better.

*

But before she can enjoy herself for more than a few days, Qi Yingqi somehow returns early, having already completed his tribulation.

Though immortals forget all their memories from the time they spent undergoing tribulation, Ling Yihe still feels terribly guilty. For days on end, she avoids Qi Yingqi as if he were a snake or a scorpion, making sure she is nowhere near him.

The other immortals are shocked. "Didn't we arrange for you two to become comrades who would risk your lives for each other? Why do you still look like sworn enemies?"

Ling Yihe is just as shocked. "Wait! You arranged for me to descend to the mortal realm?! And what do you mean, comrades? We became husband and wife down there!"

*

Qi Yingqi has a moon in his heart he cannot forget. In the end, the moon shatters, and he wakes from his dream.

Fortunately, he later discovers Ling Yihe is still alive and well. But even as he rejoices, he learns the truth.

She went down to the mortal realm, fell in love with someone, and spent many years as his loving wife. In the end, Ling Yihe even died for him.

Qi Yingqi's expression darkens. He orders his divine attendants to find that man and kill him immediately, no matter what it takes.

At the same time, he takes Ling Yihe back to his residence and builds the little princess a lavish, expensive golden cage that suits her tastes perfectly, not allowing her to leave even for a single step.

For the past three hundred years, Qi Yingqi has wanted to do this countless times. But the Matchmaking Immortal said love could not be forced, or it would only make her hate him. So Qi Yingqi had carefully guarded the moon in his heart.

And in the end, he finds out that the moon he treasured loves someone else.

Qi Yingqi thinks, To hell with not forcing love. He wants Ling Yihe's love, no matter what it takes.

1. The male lead has had a crush on her for a very, very long time. At first, he doesn't remember anything from his tribulation and thinks the heroine loves someone else!

2. Has a bit of that thing (can't say it, you can tell from the blurb).

3. The heroine is emotionally oblivious, but she probably likes the male lead from the start, too. She just doesn't realize she's in love.

Theme: Love life, stand on your own two feet!