Two-faced, carefree senior sister x cold, obsessive, convincing actor junior sister
Two powerful leads | Battle-worn | Equal focus on plot and romance
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Gu Qingqiu transmigrated into a cultivation novel as the cannon-fodder senior sister.
According to the original story, she would die by the sword of the heroine, her junior sister, after the latter fell to demonic cultivation.
The beautiful, powerful, tragic heroine is named Shen Zhuyun. She carries the blood of both immortals and demons, and is scorned as a “mongrel” by everyone in the cultivation world.
The System tells Gu Qingqiu that as long as she helps the heroine unlock her talent and ascend to immortality, she’ll be able to return home alive.
To unlock her talent, she must teach the heroine the emotions of being human:
Longing for something unattainable, the pain of parting from a loved one, resentment, and hatred.
To get home as quickly as possible, Gu Qingqiu decides to work both sides.
By day, she’s an arrogant, domineering senior sister who appears to bully the heroine and put her through trials.
By night, she’s the gentle, powerful sword sovereign who is the heroine’s secret beloved, protecting her in secret and showing her the vast world.
Later, the heroine fully unlocks her talent and is only one step away from reaching the immortal realm.
Gu Qingqiu changes her secret identity to urge the heroine to ascend, but when she opens her eyes, she finds herself facing a pair of eyes faintly shadowed by demonic energy.
Shen Zhuyun kisses her lips and softly coaxes her: “How could becoming an immortal compare to having you?”
Gu Qingqiu: ...?
Remembering what happened to the original host, Gu Qingqiu logs in as her main identity that very night.
In her role as the sect’s senior sister, she kills the traitorous sword sovereign with a single strike, sending her tragic heroine junior sister a BE script. She teaches her what it means to long for the unattainable and sends the protagonist on the path to immortality.
On the night she fakes her death, covered in blood and lying in the protagonist’s arms, she (pretending to be) tenderly wipes Shen Zhuyun’s tears:
“I’ve given you everything.”
“Lastly, I wish you a smooth and happy life.”
-02-
Shen Zhuyun has a secret: she has been reborn.
In her previous life, she was born under an ill omen, had all her talents sealed by her enemies, suffered abuse at the hands of the immortals, and finally died after falling to demonic cultivation.
Reborn, she had planned to break through her seal and ascend to immortality in one fell swoop. Who could have guessed...
The senior sister who had once looked down on her was secretly sending her opportunities.
A senior who had no connection to her and later left the sect was gently tending to her wounds under the moonlight.
More interestingly, they were actually the same person.
Shen Zhuyun: Oh?
She watched coldly, thinking Gu Qingqiu was just a vulgar person with ulterior motives. But Gu Qingqiu cut ties with her completely and asked for nothing in return.
And so, for the first time in her life, Shen Zhuyun wanted to have someone for herself.
Shen Zhuyun thought that as long as she didn’t become an immortal, she could stay with her senior sister like this forever.
But only when both her senior sister and the senior died did Shen Zhuyun realize:
In Gu Qingqiu’s eyes, she was nothing.
“You taught me what hatred, pain, and obsession are.”
“So what gives you the right to say you can’t love me?”
1. Switches between top and bottom. Love in the beginning, hatred later, but both the love and hatred are equal and healthy, with a happy ending.
2. The seemingly illogical parts early on are foreshadowing.
Theme: Love is the most intense form of hatred