The One in the Moonlight Says No

Su Tang transmigrates into a xianxia romance novel as the heroine's ill-fated rival, the male lead's unattainable first love.

According to the original story, as the male lead's junior fellow disciple, she will sacrifice herself for him early on. Years later, when he becomes the foremost cultivator in the realm and a renowned Sword Immortal, he will meet the heroine, who looks just like her, mistake the heroine for her replacement, and launch into all sorts of melodramatic angst, both physical and emotional.

After many hardships and dangers, the leads finally end up together. But to save all living beings, the male lead blows himself up to seal the great villain, and the book ends in tragedy.

Su Tang: "..."

Su Tang decides this won't do.

After she transmigrates, she keeps her distance from the male lead's group to avoid being killed off by the plot. She finds herself a tall, handsome, ordinary passerby of a master, studies hard, and plans to leave the sect once she has learned a few useful skills.

Later, her master accidentally reveals his identity, and Su Tang discovers that he is actually a demon.

To save her life, Su Tang immediately makes something up: "Master, you don't need to kill me to keep this secret. I've long yearned to visit the Demon Realm."

Her master is remarkably calm. "Why?"

Su Tang knows that the great villain who drove the male lead to blow himself up in the original story, Xie Yan, the Demon Venerable who will shake all the worlds years from now, is already rising to prominence. More than half of the three thousand Demon Gods have submitted to him, and he is about to unite the entire Demon Realm.

Su Tang makes up another story on the spot. "Because I admire Lord Xie of the Demon Realm."

Her master's expression turns peculiar. "..."

Later, her master has to leave the sect on an errand. Before he goes, he tells her to keep up her cultivation and says he'll come back for her in a few years. Perhaps then, he can help her get what she wants.

Su Tang sees her master off, completely baffled. Soon, she too sneaks away from the sect, heading to a secret realm to cultivate for several hundred years. She becomes a carefree rogue immortal in the outer realms, living a quiet, happy life.

One morning, she wakes from a long sleep to find a friend visiting with the latest news from the world.

The Demon Realm's armies are sweeping across the lands. The Demon Venerable's power is divine and none can match him. Even the famed Sword Immortal has fallen to him, while the rulers of the nine realms have all been crushed, trembling as they bow their heads.

Her friend suddenly looks uneasy. "I heard the Demon Venerable once searched for someone surnamed Su. Could that person have been his disciple?"

Su Tang: "?"

Not long after, on a battlefield strewn with wreckage, she meets the Demon Venerable. He looks exactly like her master.

Dark clouds hang overhead, the mountain peaks lie in shadow, and countless demons crawl on the ground as thousands upon thousands of gods and immortals kneel in silence.

The handsome man in black armor slowly approaches her, reaches out to pinch her cheek, and grits out in a low voice, "I thought you said you admired me?"

※The blurb and title may change, but the core premise will stay the same.

※Not orthodox cultivation fantasy: high-magic xuanhuan with a mix of elements.

Theme: Love is an eternal faith.