My Senior Brother Can't Possibly Be a Target to Win Over

(Old embarrassing work. I'll edit it when I have time.)

Coming next: Bound to My Rival by a Love Spell, I Was Forced to Sleep with Him. Just as the title says, it's a story about two rivals bound by a love spell who have no choice but to marry first and fall in love later. I'll start once enough people have pre-saved it.

Every time a transmigrate-into-a-book novel is born, a beautiful, kind, clever, lively, and adorable transmigrator arrives to help the poor and save the male lead.

The male lead's character is simple: beautiful, powerful, and miserable. As long as he meets these three conditions, if he's a good person, people praise his great compassion; if he's a bad person, they call him a mad obsessive.

Wen Ying could also be described as beautiful, powerful, and miserable in her previous life.

Born with a sword bone, she was a natural sword prodigy who was invincible at eighteen.

Yet she had been orphaned since childhood, and after joining the sect under Immortal Venerable Huairuo, she was disliked by her master.

Her junior sister was the person her master loved. The two of them were always exchanging glances, their affection plain to see.

Her junior brother Gu was the Immortal Venerable's son, a privileged second-generation cultivator who never lacked heavenly treasures.

Her junior brother Xiao was the chosen one of fortune, with countless admirers. When she broke off their engagement, he shouted, "Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river!"

She knew she was an unnecessary person. Even her death went unnoticed, and her achievement in sealing the Demon Lord became a gift for her junior brother.

At first, she thought that if she acted sweet and harmless enough, she could win their affection.

Until one day, she had an epiphany:

Win your brother! I'm already this miserable. Why am I still pretending?

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Jiang Fuxue's conquest target was the future villain of a book.

This villain was so powerful that she killed every named character in the book.

Heaven could no longer stand it, so it tossed Jiang Fuxue into this world.

She'd assumed that a villain who slaughtered everyone in the world would be an irredeemably wicked demon. But when the well-behaved, adorable girl in front of her smiled at her, Jiang Fuxue fell silent.

So you're telling me this little thing slaughtered everyone in the world?

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After Wen Ying died, she discovered that she'd become the moonlight of the whole sect.

The junior brother who had always made things difficult for her only realized after her death that his feelings ran too deep.

The arrogant junior brother who was always showing off began to regard her as his beloved after she died.

Wen Ying: I only died. My brain wasn't eaten by a dog.

Also known as My Junior Sister Died and Somehow Became the Moonlight of the Whole Sect, My Fragile Junior Sister Who Kept Dancing on the Edge of Death Ninety-Nine Times, and Ninety-Nine Rebirths: Yu Shao, Stop Messing Around

!! I made those titles up. Those aren't the real titles.

1. Cultivation, demon hunting, and solving cases. The main cast has three women and one man.

2. The female lead is the strongest and has her own goals.

3. Flashbacks ahead! Flashbacks ahead! Flashbacks ahead!

4. My own take on fantasy, not a power fantasy. Please don't overanalyze it.

5. The male lead is a conqueror who failed ninety-nine times. This is his hundredth attempt.

6. Please don't announce that you're dropping the story. Thank you.

Coming soon on my profile: The Whole Family Is Reborn and Refuses to Be a Songbird Again

Blurb:

Yuzhu was as lovely as her name, with skin like ice and bones like jade, full and round as a pearl. In her previous life, she had a frail mother and a younger brother preparing for the imperial exams. As the eldest daughter, she shouldered the family's burdens and spent her whole life as a kept songbird.

The first time she became a kept songbird, Yuzhu chose her cousin, Pei Xiuzhu. But the Pei family soon fell into decline, and her cousin, trying to save himself, sent her to the emperor's bed. Yuzhu waited and waited, but the emperor never came. Instead, she received his corpse, and a cup of poisoned wine sent her on her way.

When she woke, she had returned to the age of sixteen. She had just arrived in Shengjing, and nothing had begun yet.

Before she could figure out what to do with this life, the whole family sat down at the dinner table. They exchanged glances and thought, Oh no.

It turned out everyone had been reborn!

Her mother regretted having let a chance to become a kept songbird slip away, which had left her destitute later in life. So this time, her mother wasted no time in choosing to become one.

Her younger brother regretted having missed his chance to curry favor with a powerful official, which had left his career in the doldrums. So this time, he wasted no time in choosing to ingratiate himself with the powerful.

And her?

Yuzhu thought that since she'd been reborn, she might as well see if she could make it on her own. She didn't want to be Pei Xiuzhu's kept songbird again.

Mountains can crumble, and people can run away. If she relied on herself... well, if she couldn't afford food, she could always write a book called The Songbird's Guide to Self-Care.

In short, things couldn't be worse than last time.

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Pei Xiuzhu was reborn when the Pei family was still at the height of its prosperity. Aside from setting Yuzhu up at the end of his previous life, he could say he had a clear conscience. This time, he wanted to save the Pei family from its decline. As for Yuzhu, he didn't give her much thought. His cousin would come crawling back to him anyway.

But he waited and waited. Yuzhu never came. Instead, he heard the news of her engagement to the Duke of Zhenguo.

Pei Xiuzhu: ?

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After being reborn, Yuzhu hated one kind of man more than any other: men who relied on their power and status, looking down their noses at everyone.

Unfortunately, Xiao Shu was exactly that sort of man. Yuzhu couldn't stand the sight of him.

The Duke of Zhenguo, Xiao Shu, hated one kind of woman more than any other: women who clung to others like dodder vines, using their beauty to climb the social ladder.

Unfortunately, Yuzhu was exactly that sort of woman. Xiao Shu couldn't stand the sight of her.

But when the girl's eyes shimmered and jade-like tears rolled down her pale cheeks as she challenged him, the part of him that should have softened stayed hard, while his usually stern expression softened.

Yuzhu taught him a lesson:

Don't judge a book by its cover.

Theme: Though one has seen the vastness of the world, one still cherishes the tender green of the grass