You're Just a Phoenix-Proud Heroine, Take This!

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You can check out my next story, She Never Said She Was a Ghost Story, if you're interested. The blurb is below!

Main couple: silly, spoiled childhood sweetheart x an obsessive older childhood sweetheart who doesn't realize she's crazy

Xie Qingyue was Ningtao's most hated second-generation cultivator. She was born into a good family but achieved nothing, was a pain to deal with, spoiled, and even a little stupid.

But people could only gossip about her in private and make snide remarks. No one dared confront her directly, one-on-one.

After all, Xie Qingyue was Ningtao's number one tattletale immortal, queen of the waterworks, a bad fighter who loved getting into trouble. A few casual words from her could make people get beaten by their families until they couldn't tell east from west, and then they still had to smile and apologize to that wretched Xie Qingyue.

Xie Qingyue herself: I eat well, drink well, and have fun every day. I tease cats and dogs, and beat people after pulling bags over their heads. Wait, no, I mean punish evildoers. Life's pretty comfortable.

Then her fiancee's family was destroyed, and her mother said, "If you keep going like this, you won't be able to protect her. Break off the engagement."

She suddenly realized that if things went on like this, she would lose her pretty little bodhisattva of a wife. For her own sake and her fiancee's, she began cultivating in earnest and settled into a daily routine of training from eight to five.

When cultivation wore her out, she'd find an excuse to cuddle up to her fiancee.

When cultivation annoyed her, she'd shamelessly lie beside her fiancee and demand to be comforted.

Gradually, one day, everyone suddenly noticed that Ningtao's former little tyrant, the one everyone hated, had friends.

She was no longer a good-for-nothing, either. In a cultivation world where strength ruled, she started making a name for herself through her intelligence and talent.

Everything was moving in a good direction.

Just as Xie Qingyue thought the time was right to take things a step further with her wife, perhaps form a bond and make their relationship official,

her wife found the engagement-breaking notice she'd written when she was young and foolish, then disappeared!

Oh no. Her wife had run off just like that, without even giving her a chance to explain!

Thirty years later, a secret realm in the northern desert opened. Hearing that someone needed a certain divine artifact, Xie Qingyue lay in wait for half a month at a black-market auction house before finally catching her and bringing her back to the exquisitely made cage she'd paid a fortune to build for her.

Wearing a red outfit held together at the waist only by ribbons, Xie Qingyue toyed with a little object between her fingers and looked down at the woman sprawled on the ground. A delicate little dagger traced the woman's smooth skin. "Still untouched? Still going to run?"

Jing Yeqing smiled softly. As Xie Qingyue moved, the sharp blade left a fine trail of blood across her face. She paid it no mind. The excitement in her eyes could no longer be concealed. Like a mad dog that had finally found its master, she murmured to herself, "How pitiful. You won't get another chance to run..."

Xie Qingyue: Wait, what?

#We haven't seen each other in thirty years, and my wife seems even crazier than I am#

#Wait, wasn't this cage something I paid a fortune to build for my wife? Why am I the one locked in it?#

#Has my wife been possessed by something strange? Why is she so clingy!!!#

Reader's Guide:

1. 1v1, both are sexually inexperienced. No melodrama, just Xie making irresponsible, wild assumptions and causing a ruckus.

2. A sweet, slice-of-life story about two silly girls growing up. An imaginary setting; all worldbuilding serves the plot.

3. They switch roles, but most of the time Jing takes the lead because Xie is... technically, utterly disastrous. (To be precise, "most of the time" means 6:4.)

Here's the upcoming story blurb! (Waving my arms desperately) (Don't just pass by, come on in) (Calling out loudly...)

*Click to see the perfect pursuit of a lover by a heartthrob adored by everyone.

She doesn't even pursue her. She just stands there smiling, and the other girl comes running over, talking about love and affection~^_^

Nonhuman, universally adored, brooding female ghost x ordinary, super-strong honest woman

Ordinary delivery worker Yue Yiyue closed her eyes, opened them, and hey, she'd transmigrated into a book.

She'd transmigrated into the book's identically named cannon-fodder character, who acted like the heroine's best friend to her face while secretly stabbing her in the back at every turn.

Looking at the somewhat frail beauty before her, with lovely peach-blossom eyes blinking at her...

Yue Yiyue swallowed. To protect the heroine and get home, she'd fight to the death!

*

Just as the original story said, everyone adored Gu Nanqiu. They chased after her and longed for her attention.

Yue Yiyue had known Gu Nanqiu since arriving in this world, and had gotten close to her first. Good morning in the morning, have you eaten at noon, want to sleep together tonight? And just like that, she wound up in the heroine's soft, fragrant bed.

Loved wholeheartedly by Gu Nanqiu, Yue Yiyue let herself sink into love's gentle embrace. She thought that perhaps this was the life she'd always dreamed of.

*

Until the plot point where she was supposed to betray the heroine. Heaven played a cruel joke on her.

The plot forcibly dragged Yue Yiyue away, and her lover died right before her eyes while trying to protect her.

A phone buzzed and vibrated nearby, its messages updating nonstop.

"Don't look at her. Look at me..."

"Don't leave me..."

"I'm so jealous she got to have you... I won't allow it, I won't..."

Yue Yiyue had no idea what was going on. In a daze, she held her lover's body as it slowly grew cold, staying like that all night.

At dawn the next day, Yue Yiyue jolted awake. The person in her arms had vanished.

She hurriedly pushed open the door and saw her lover in the kitchen, busy making breakfast...

"Bonus scene"

Long fingers danced over warm skin, while cold tentacles slowly roamed over Yue Yiyue's body. Hearing the person beneath her breathe harder and beg in desperation,

Gu Nanqiu gently coaxed Yue Yiyue, whose eyes were unfocused. "Yiyue, say you love me."

"Yiyue, say you'll never leave... me."

Already understanding that her lover was not like ordinary people, Yue Yiyue gave a perfunctory answer, then let herself be swept into love's whirlpool.

Afterward, she put an arm around Gu Nanqiu, drank Sprite, and complained. Damn it, now she had to knit six more pairs of gloves... Come to think of it, what size were those tentacles?

Theme: Prejudice is a mountain. Live your own life and walk your own path.