Spring Mountain's Dai Brows

[Devious Little White Flower vs. Deep and Reserved Young Master] Fan Yin is an assassin from the Rakshasa Pavilion, loathed by every sect of the Immortal Alliance. To steal the divine artifact that can prolong her master's life, she assumes another identity and infiltrates the alliance, hiding by the side of its young master, whose name is said to make countless demons tremble. In Zhongli Yan's eyes, she is fragile, kind, and utterly deserving of pity. At first, he only suspects her motives, so he keeps her close to watch over her. A homeless orphan, beautiful yet gentle and frail, who sheds tears before him every day. As time passes, Zhongli Yan finds himself falling for her. He can't help wanting to protect her, and even to give her a home. On the day his feelings come to light, he asks whether she will marry him. He clearly sees tender affection in her eyes, and when she eagerly urges him to marry her as soon as possible, Zhongli Yan, who usually never lets his emotions show, can't help smiling. Her urgency proves just how deeply she has fallen for him. Where no one can see, Fan Yin curves her lips in a faint smile. Men are so easy to fool. Not long afterward, an evil demon suddenly descends and begins slaughtering people throughout the Immortal Alliance, leaving its disciples in a state of terror. Zhongli Yan pushes against the fleeing crowd, searching everywhere for Fan Yin. At a sudden glance, he sees his fiancée, who spends every day with tears in her eyes and seems so delicate and helpless, calmly raising a demonic flute that has claimed countless lives to face the demon. That flute has the resplendent name Moon Chaser. It is the life-bound magical weapon of Chun Shan Dai, the leader of the Rakshasa Pavilion's Earth-rank assassins. Zhongli Yan suddenly realizes he has been deceived. He has fallen for her, while she has remained calm and composed all along. She even manages to steal the divine artifact Soul-Calming Bell, kept in their bridal chamber, while escaping the Immortal Alliance. After that, no one in the Immortal Alliance dares mention Fan Yin's name again. Until five years later, when Zhongli Yan succeeds to the position of alliance leader and summons the various immortal sects to discuss how to resist the demons. In the crowd, he spots Fan Yin, attending as the Rakshasa Pavilion's representative. At that moment, she is laughing and chatting with the man beside her. When their eyes meet, she gives him a faint smile, as if she has completely forgotten what she did. Forthcoming: The Villainess Is Reborn at the Noble Academy [Bright, Beautiful, and Ruthlessly Self-Serving Heroine vs. Carefree Man Who Steals His Friend's Girlfriend] In her previous life, Quan Can was the notorious villainess of a noble academy. She constantly bullied and put down the resilient, hardworking heroine. Every time she got ready to make the heroine suffer a public humiliation, someone would rush to defend her. Her gentle, considerate fiancé would sigh and rub his forehead. "Can Can, she's so innocent and kind. Why can't you try to be friends with her?" Her arrogant, cold stepbrother would grip her chin and warn her, "If I find out you're targeting her again, I promise I'll throw you and your vain mother out of the house. Do you understand, little sister?" Her hot-tempered nemesis would bring people to corner her in an empty classroom. "You're a spoiled rich girl who does nothing but waste money every day. What gives you the right to look down on her, when she works several jobs just to get by?" Later, someone deliberately manipulated public opinion, and countless self-righteous netizens condemned her. Unable to bear the humiliation and abuse, she grew increasingly depressed and eventually leapt from the top of the academic building. Reborn, Quan Can can't help but sneer. She won't make the same mistake twice, and it's time for the person pulling strings from the shadows to sincerely repent to her. When she returns to school, Quan Can makes herself a to-do list on a sticky note. Her first task is figuring out how to gracefully dump her fiancé, who is still devoted to her. A cold breeze blows in through the open classroom window, and the sticky note floats down to the floor. Just as she bends to pick it up, a pair of long, straight legs comes into view. Recognizing the limited-edition sneakers on them, Quan Can realizes the man is Pei Dongyao, her boyfriend's best friend. She remembers that those sneakers were the birthday gift her boyfriend asked her to pick out for Pei Dongyao. She hadn't given it much thought at the time, just grabbing her boyfriend's phone and placing the order through an app. Pei Dongyao bends down to pick up the sticky note and glances casually at its messy scribbles. He was about to hand it back to her, but changes his mind. He taps the first item twice with a fingertip and smiles meaningfully. [Little Extra] When Pei Dongyao became friends with Jiang Muli, his intentions were far from pure. He had long coveted his friend's fiancée, and after putting a great deal of thought into it, he finally got what he wanted. The first time he kissed Quan Can was on a snowy Christmas Eve. Jiang Muli stood her up for another girl, and Pei Dongyao saw his chance. He canceled a dinner he'd arranged long ago and kept her company in the biting cold as they built an appallingly ugly snowman. She had always known how he felt about her. Perhaps to get back at Jiang Muli, she wrapped her arms around Pei Dongyao's neck beneath the gaze of the ugly snowman and gave him the kiss he had long awaited. Just before Jiang Muli finally arrived, she used the handkerchief she'd taken from Pei Dongyao to wipe away her smudged lipstick. Then she smiled brightly and told Jiang Muli she'd prepared a Christmas Eve gift for him. That hideous snowman. The snowman he and she had built, witness to their first kiss, was so easily given by her to another man. Pei Dongyao gave a self-mocking laugh. Jealousy and madness took root in his heart that snowy night, making it impossible for him to patiently wait any longer for the occasional scraps of affection she chose to give him. Theme: Persevere and never give up in the face of adversity