After the White Moonlight Got Her Hands on the Script

Preorder xianxia novel "After the Heartless Sword Binds to a Lovestruck System". Please add it to your reading list! Blurb at the end.

Blurb:

[Fragile yet resilient, determined-to-grow moonlight heroine x ferocious to outsiders, obedient and shamelessly lovesick to those close to him]

Shen Ninghe transmigrated into the heroine of a tragedy, but the story had only just begun. Holding the script, she breathed a sigh of relief.

To escape the ending where her entire family was executed and she herself died miserably in the Cold Palace, she made a decision: stay away from the male lead!

After finally making it to a crucial part of the plot, Shen Ninghe threw caution to the wind. She had managed to avoid the male lead, but what was this powerful villain who suddenly appeared to save her life?

Even the key characters in the book who had never crossed paths with her came looking for her one after another. In the end, every one of them became a friend willing to die alongside her.

With the realm in turmoil, Shen Ninghe spent the night thinking about the inescapable deaths everyone faced in the script. Maybe she could write a different ending?

But in the end, Shen Ninghe could only watch her father and brothers die in battle, her country fall, and her family be destroyed.

The frustrated eldest princess endured and lay low, then went far away to restore the kingdom, never to be heard from again. The proud, radiant little princess resolutely took up her sword and defended the gates of the kingdom to the death.

Shen Ninghe could not understand. A country like this deserved to fall. If they were willing to leave, how could they lose their lives?

But on the farewell letters everyone wrote together, a line of large characters stood out painfully: First, may peace reign beneath heaven. Second, may the people live in comfort and joy. Third, may my family not resent me for giving my life for my country.

It was only when she resolutely stepped onto the Sky-Questioning Terrace during a refugee uprising that Shen Ninghe began to understand what people meant by "home and country."

And why so many people would face death without regret for its sake.

Later, blood flowed like a river before the Hall of State Affairs. Shen Ninghe gripped the Imperial Tutor's Sword her master had left behind and looked back.

Her old friends were still at her side, supporting the eldest princess's ascension to the throne together.

"If it is heaven's will, why can't a woman bear the responsibility?!"

Let others judge the merits and faults of what comes next. I only want to try to protect this land and these mountains.

Reader's guide:

1. The dynasty is fictional, and many details are invented. Please do not overanalyze. Jiang Yan and Jiang Shiyan are the same person, the male lead.

2. The story becomes an ensemble of women in the middle and later parts. The male lead has relatively little screen time, but he is not just a background character.

3. Everyone is reborn, but at different points in time.

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Blurb for "After the Heartless Sword Binds to a Lovestruck System":

In her previous life, Xi Xun was born with a sword bone, roamed the Nine Provinces, and had never known defeat.

The peerless Sword Venerable was reborn as a frail good-for-nothing. Not only had she lost some of her memories, she had also been bound to a lovestruck System.

The System used threats and promises to persuade her: [Host, you have only one year of life left. Complete the capture missions and you can truly be reborn and ascend whenever you like!]

Xi Xun stared at the faint red thread appearing and disappearing around the little finger of her right hand. Only then did she belatedly remember that she had a love-bound tribulation in which anyone she loved would die.

She accepted calmly. "What does it mean to capture someone?"

The System racked its brains to explain to the sword cultivator of the Heartless Dao, born with little feeling for the seven emotions: [To the person doing the capturing, the target is like a cultivator's life-bound sword!]

Xi Xun considered this. A sword cultivator's life-bound sword never leaves their side, not even in death.

In her previous life, she herself had been powerful, and so had her life-bound sword.

And so, at the Sword Sect's disciple selection, several names long associated with the word "useless" appeared together at the very top of the examination rankings.

Hearing the steady notifications that their affection levels were rising, Xi Xun understood.

Capturing someone simply meant helping others become stronger!

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At the first Nine Provinces unified examination, the young prodigies lost, utterly bewildered.

Wasn't the young master of the Medicine Sect spoiled and incompetent, and Young Master Xie foolish and timid?

Then who was the one carrying a pill furnace in one hand to smash people while refining pills with the other? And who was the person holding up a shabby umbrella, whose defenses no one could break?

Even Xi Xun, the good-for-nothing known to everyone, had beaten every sword cultivator in the Nine Provinces without even drawing her sword. Not one dared speak up.

The most shameless charlatan of the Empty Sect, the young master of the Poison Sect, and the Buddhist Sect's Holy Maiden all followed close behind.

The System was so delighted it jumped up and down: [Congratulations, Host! The targets' affection levels are about to be maxed out!]

Xi Xun did not reply. She lifted her eyes toward the white-haired young man lounging carelessly against the high platform as he called her name.

When she answered, a complicated emotion she could not understand flickered through his captivating red eyes.

Xi Xun lowered her gaze. The red thread around her little finger flickered in and out.

At the other end, it was wrapped around the young man's slender, pale wrist.

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Someone once read Xi Xun's fate: a star of misfortune, doomed to bring harm to family and friends, destined for a lonely life and unlikely ever to find fulfillment.

In her previous life, that had indeed been her lot.

But when she was once again pushed to the brink, all her capture targets stood by her side.

Even knowing they were outmatched, not one of them took a single step back.

Through the flash of blades and the sea of blood, the young man looked at her and let out a soft sigh.

The next moment, the hand holding Xi Xun's sword trembled for the first time. The young man seized the blade and drove it into his own heart.

The world seemed to fall silent. Only the System's announcement rang in her ears:

[Hidden capture target Chu Chengui's affection level has reached 100 percent. Congratulations, Host! All capture missions are complete!]

The young man's red eyes gradually dimmed, but the red thread did not disappear.

Sealed memories surged back like a tide. Xi Xun held the young man around his lean waist, gave a soft scoff, tightened her grip on the hilt, and slowly rose to her feet.

Once, she had been powerless to protect herself. Once, she had looked down upon the Nine Provinces.

Now, if she wished, she could ascend with a mere lift of her hand.

But she accepted it: this was her fate.

If she refused to accept it, then even heaven's will would have to let her rewrite it!

Theme: A woman's loyalty and courage can move the sun, the moon, and the land itself.