On the day her engagement was called off, Xu Xiangyao unexpectedly learned that she was a supporting female character in a face-slapping, power-leveling novel about a Dragon-Proud-Heaven protagonist.
Her fiance, Ling Qingqiu, was the chosen one, while she was the vicious young lady who looked down on the poor and fawned on the rich, forcing him to declare, “Don't bully a young man just because he's poor.”
Watching the young man below the hall cut off a corner of his robe, Xu Xiangyao knew that once this spiteful brat made it big, her whole family would be in trouble.
What was done could not be undone. Afterward, Xu Xiangyao could only put on a secret identity and follow him. Whether by acting cute and obedient or offering him all her resources, she had to make him give up on getting revenge against her family!
So, to his face, Xu Xiangyao praised him: “What impressive skill, young hero!”
Behind his back, when she thought he couldn't hear, she grumbled: “A clumsy brute.”
Ling Qingqiu heard every word. “You're crazy.”
Despite all the bickering, the two still set off together.
In a secret realm, they searched for treasure, while Xu Xiangyao tearfully scouted the way.
When they fought monsters above their level, Xu Xiangyao trembled as she played support.
When Ling Qingqiu was poisoned by a parasitic Gu, Xu Xiangyao timidly begged the novel's chosen heroine to treat him. The poison was not cured, but at least she managed to bring the destined couple together.
Xu Xiangyao felt that even if she hadn't earned merit, she'd certainly worked hard. Ling Qingqiu finally agreed to stop holding the Xu family's broken engagement against her.
While the young couple exchanged heartfelt words, Xu Xiangyao packed her things and went home, ready to return to her carefree life as a young lady.
After half a year of acting like a coward, it was about time she found a few handsome friends to drink with and unwind!
As expected, Ling Qingqiu soon made a name for himself in the cultivation world.
By then, everyone thought he wouldn't spare Xu Xiangyao, who had once humiliated him.
Until the day of a wedding banquet at the Xu residence. Ling Qingqiu arrived beneath the stars, and everyone was startled to see that he and the Xu family's young lady had identical, alluring marks on the sides of their necks.
“A Fu, you lied to me?”
The young man kissed the corner of her lips as if no one else were there, his fingers clasped behind his back already clenched so tightly they were bloodied.
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At first, Ling Qingqiu thought he and Xu Xiangyao had met when they were both down on their luck.
Later, he thought she was always meant to marry him.
Theme: Your fate is in your own hands.
