In the eighteenth year after her birth, Xue Yaozhi learned that she was the heroine of an angsty novel, and her romance System finally arrived.
System: "You and the Immortal Lord of Jihua, Yan Biexu, met and fell in love in the mortal world. You saved his life, and he married you to repay the debt. But he cultivates the Heartless Dao and is destined to kill his wife to prove his Dao."
Xue Yaozhi: "The Heartless Dao? I've seen that old act plenty of times. I've never seen anyone pull it off."
System: "You and the Demon Lord Zhong Liji are a bickering couple. You met when you were both down on your luck, supported each other, and fell in love. But on your wedding day, you learn that the only reason he treated you differently was that you looked 80 percent like the girl he could never forget. You break up and get back together, then break up again, and in the end he lets you, an ordinary mortal, fall into a demon pit and die without a trace in order to save her."
Xue Yaozhi: "The replacement trope? Another classic angst-novel staple."
System: "You and Rong Chao, the future Ghost Emperor, grew up together and were childhood sweethearts. But the Rong family suffered a devastating upheaval, and Rong Chao was so shaken that he joined the Ghost Path. You think you can stop him, but he loses control and snaps your neck. Your soul is trapped inside a puppet, unable to leave his side for all eternity."
Xue Yaozhi: "Wow, this one's exciting."
System: "Because the heroines of these three novels are so similar, the System has merged their plots to improve efficiency. The number of male leads available to romance is... three."
Xue Yaozhi: "...?"
[Short Scene]
The System pulled up the romance progress panel:
[Yan Biexu Romance Progress: -5%]
[Zhong Liji Romance Progress: -20%]
[Rong Chao Romance Progress: -50%]
System: "?" What had happened during all the years it had been installing plugins?
System: "Reading memories... This morning, the Host passed by the gravely injured and unconscious Yan Biexu without helping him, and even stepped on him twice... At noon, the Host encountered Zhong Liji, whose meridians were severed and who was fleeing for his life. The Host not only refused to help him, but also humiliated him with a steamed bun... Just now, the Host shoved Rong Chao, who'd come to visit, face-first into the mud. He's now grinding his teeth and declaring you mortal enemies..."
The System was stunned. "I was only a day late. How does it feel like I've missed a whole lifetime? You had quite the day."
Xue Yaozhi: "Small potatoes."
Years later, Xue Yaozhi successfully completed her romance missions. When their love was at its peak, she spoke gently and tenderly, making promises of eternal devotion.
Then she went home without a backward glance.
[Reader's Guide]
1. The heroine will have three romances. Each new relationship begins only after the previous one has ended.
2. One-on-one romance.
Upcoming story: "The Cannon Fodder Decides to Romance Her Junior Sister"
This is a melodramatic novel full of love triangles, with everyone falling for the heroine.
The elegant and refined sect master, her three exceptionally talented senior brothers, and even the Demon Lord, who kills without batting an eye, all love their junior sister.
But I'm not the junior sister. I'm just an unremarkable, ordinary senior sister and cannon fodder. Why cannon fodder? Because later, when the junior sister dies, that mad Demon Lord massacres the entire Kongsang Sect to avenge her. I die in that massacre eight times in eight different ways.
No matter what I do, I can't escape death. Finally, when I revive for the ninth time, I awaken. Heaven tells me that if I don't want to die, I need to romance the junior sister.
I'm shocked. But I'm a woman!
Heaven ignores me, and I don't want to keep dying.
Well, sorry, Sect Master and Senior Brothers. I'm going to steal your girl.
But I've never romanced anyone before, so I decide to sabotage my Sect Master and Senior Brothers' dates with the junior sister while studying how they do it.
Don't ask why I want to sabotage their dates. I need to nip my rivals in the bud. This time, the junior sister has to be mine.
So when my stern and dignified Sect Master corners the junior sister and asks in a low voice why she was smiling so happily at the eldest senior brother, I rush over, pull a big grin, and tell him, "Master, don't be angry. I'll smile at you instead."
Before leaving, the Sect Master says I have a lovely smile and should never do it again.
I turn to the junior sister and say, "Hey, cutie. Give me a smile."
When my gentle and refined eldest senior brother pins the junior sister against the wall, I rush over and shove him aside. "Eldest Senior Brother, please be kind to her. Don't hit her."
Before leaving, he says, exasperated, that I'm surprisingly strong and should remember to bring my eyes next time I go out.
I turn around and pin the junior sister against the wall, punching a hole through it. "Look at me. I'm stronger than him. Do you like me? Hmm?"
The Sect Master and my senior brothers all get fed up with me and send me down the mountain to gain experience. I sneak the junior sister out while they're not looking, planning to enjoy some quality time with her.
But our journey goes poorly, and we run into the mad Demon Lord. He's someone I don't dare mess with, so before he can make a move on the junior sister, I confess first. "Actually, I've liked you for a long time, Lord Demon."
The fearsome villain blushes and runs off in embarrassment.
The junior sister turns to me with a brooding look and says, "I thought you liked me, Senior Sister. Dump him, and I'll agree to be with you."
I'm overjoyed. I can't believe it was so easy to win her over!
But I never expected that, before long, my junior sister would die anyway. As in every previous death, her frail body shatters miserably like a butterfly with broken wings, and not even a whole corpse is left.
Disaster strikes as expected.
I fall into a freezing lake, and as I'm drowning, my dead junior sister dives into the water and kisses me, holding on for a long time. Just as I think I'm about to drown again, she takes me to the surface. Beneath us, a strong, beautiful silver-white fish tail coils around my legs and draws me into its territory.
I open my eyes, one hand against her chest, and realize it's completely flat.
I look at her handsome, sharply defined face and bobbing Adam's apple, and finally understand. My junior sister is actually my junior brother!
That was also the day I learned that Bai Liyou was a merfolk. Merfolk have no gender before adulthood, and today was the day Bai Liyou would develop a gender.
I understood later.
Everyone loves the junior sister, and everyone wants to kill the junior sister.
Merfolk born from love possess the most precious flesh and blood in the world, making countless people go mad with desire.
My Sect Master and senior brothers are beasts in human form, worse than animals. They're just waiting for the day Bai Liyou comes of age so they can skin him, break his bones, drain his blood, and extract his marrow.
I think I have to protect him.
With the sword in my hand.
"A sword wielder must vanquish evil and protect the junior brother."
Upright, stubborn sword cultivator heroine X unserious, beautiful and tragic merman hero
Theme: Face difficulties head-on and fear no hardship.
To tell the truth, what did Zhong Liji do wrong? It was a white lie. He was not the one who killed the person.
I only have six things to say about this. Xiao Zhong's war affects far fewer people than Rong Chao's war, right?? Moreover, Zhongliji is obviously more submissive to the heroine than Rongchao. Then the heroine stops loving Zhongliji if she says she doesn't love her, but she still wants to continue with Rongchao even though she knows it was painful before... Is this a double standard or a character breakdown?
I think in this situation, Cicada should not intervene if she knows it. Once the war starts, it will be life and death. She doesn't want the human race to lose, so a large number of demons will die. She has obviously been the monarch of the demons for so many years. It can only be said that the demons are a bit unlucky to encounter her...
Oh my gosh, it feels so relaxing for the heroine and Xiao Zhong to be together, so good
I understand now that this is a superb story about cruelty to women. The heroine's character jumps around. She was very decisive before and did not want to be trapped among men, but there are still almost only these three men in the whole world. They are indecisive and have killed a lot of people. Sometimes they are holy and sometimes cruel. They are inconsistent and hypocritical. This is fine. The most unbearable thing is that she has not grown up at all. The most annoying thing is that ybx is still aloof and disgusting at heart, and the author insists on deifying him, so that it is obvious that he hurt Zhi, but there is no way to fight back against him, and he has to take a breath, and arranges for him to jump out from time to time like a piece of shit 💔
I am still buying it because I want to see how the author solves the problem of Zhongliji and Rongchao. . . Now it seems that it is still unfinished, disappointing.
Author, you are too partial to Rong Chao. This Zhongliji is just a little cannon fodder. Thank you for giving him 70 years to be with the heroine.
Ah, don't forget about Xiao Zhong. Although we have been in love for seventy years, why can we break it off so easily? I don't object to the heroine having a new relationship, but I really can't accept that Cicada is so determined to forget her last one. The characters are too divided, as if they were forced to marry Rong Chaohe.
Haha, Zhong Liji is part of your play. Now that I think about it, it's okay to let him go.
Don't blame Zhongli. If your useless ex-boyfriend is dead, he's dead. Why would he want to tell the truth and make the acquaintances more troubled?