What Should I Do About My Dao Companion Being So Popular?

[Upcoming story: gloomy man x naturally clueless girl. See the author's announcement for the direct link. Please add it to your collections, everyone! (*´▽`*)]

Blurb [Softhearted Little Sun x Gloomy, Scheming Puppy]

Jiang Si was cursed with rotten luck.

A bona fide walking disaster.

To be specific...

She had worked herself to the bone to get the book-transmigration mission progress to ninety-nine percent, with just one last step to go...

When the damn Heavenly Dao suddenly appeared and stabbed her in the back.

It took control of her body, ignoring her wishes.

Then it stabbed the mission target through the back with a fatal sword strike.

The person who had always protected her, never taking a single step back, clutched his chest and staggered around.

The boy's fingers were stained with blood. His eyes were vicious, and he looked ready to pounce on her and strangle her at any moment.

The girl fell silent.

So did a cannon-fodder like her really have to die?

Dragged by the wrist into the dungeon, Jiang Si nearly jumped out of her skin at the sight of rows of torture instruments.

She struggled to explain, but the boy only leaned close to her ear. His voice brimmed with twisted hatred as he pronounced her death sentence, one word at a time.

But perhaps it wasn't her time to die.

Just as her consciousness began to fade, someone took her away from that place.

Jiang Si thought it might be for the best if they stayed apart for a while. After all, the Heavenly Dao's sudden intervention raised questions that needed investigating.

But barely three months later, that person came looking for her.

The boy's expression was inscrutable as he came closer, step by step. Only when she had nowhere left to retreat did he speak softly:

"A Si, you've been gone for so long..."

"It's time to come home."

*

Yu Qing had never believed that anyone could be kind to another person for no reason.

Until he met Jiang Si.

To be precise, she wasn't human. She was a little cat demon.

But that didn't matter. He had demon blood too.

They were made for each other.

That was what he had always thought. Even though she unwittingly attracted plenty of people, it wasn't her fault.

His little cat was so sweet and well-behaved that it was only natural for people to adore her.

They took on missions together, slew demons and ghosts, fought in the grand tournament, and competed for the Heavenly Rankings.

He couldn't keep himself from falling for her. Hesitantly, he began to confess all the love in his heart...

Until, in the Hall of Ten Thousand Demons, Jiang Si drove her sword into his heart with her own hands.

The treasured jade pendant he had kept against his chest shattered into pieces. A terrible hatred and the love that had grown over time intertwined and ensnared him, driving him almost mad.

"So even one born with demonic bones can love so deeply."

[Reading Guide]

1. The events in the blurb happen later. Early on, the male lead is a scheming puppy who wags his tail. Later, he becomes a gloomy ghost. Please don't read if that bothers you, so you won't be caught off guard.

2. More to come when I think of it.

A similar upcoming story: "After Faking Her Death, She Became the Male Leads' Dark Moonlight"

[Naturally Clueless Little Bodhisattva x Obsessive, Gloomy Ghost]

Sang Zhiyi had mediocre talent and a lowly background. All she wanted was to attain the Dao and ascend to immortality.

Only after being bound to an unknown System did she learn that the world she had lived in for years was nothing but a melodramatic novel, and she was the unlucky cannon-fodder female supporting character.

After learning that her only choice was to follow the instructions, complete the plot, leave the world, and become an immortal, Sang Zhiyi said, "..."

She had always been good at bending without breaking.

But... why was the plot different from what she'd been told?

After her failed attempt to betray her side as an undercover double agent, Male Lead One, who was supposed to dismember her and scatter her ashes, instead grabbed her by the wrist and demanded, like a resentful husband, to know what the other man had that he didn't. Why did she have to go looking for some other scumbag?

After being caught drugging a drink as an extra, Male Lead Two, who was supposed to punish her for betraying the sect and leave, instead laughed and downed the wine. He even started counting with interest, then raised an eyebrow at her baffled expression and asked if she wasn't going to run.

As for Male Lead Three, whom she'd forced to repay a debt, he was fairly normal at first, speaking to her coldly and making snide remarks. But when she followed the plot and told him she was leaving to marry someone else, he completely lost it and demanded to know what powerful man she was trying to latch onto this time.

Faced with a plot that had collapsed completely and three mad dogs she couldn't shake, Sang Zhiyi faked her death and escaped. Fortunately, the rewards promised by the System were still given out as usual.

She thought there would be no more ties between them, with the world so vast and the road so long. But... her secret identity was exposed so abruptly that she barely had time to react.

She nearly died from their torment.

With the female lead's help, she finally packed her things and escaped. She hadn't enjoyed a peaceful life for long when the men she'd abandoned began showing up one after another.

The girl was forced into a corner, with nowhere left to retreat.

Different hands touched her frightened face. Someone gripped her chin, and they repeatedly asked the same question:

"Of the three of us..."

"Who do you love most?"

*

Demons wearing human skin are doomed to endless reincarnation, trapped in a cycle with no escape.

Until one person appeared. She was the one variable, the little bodhisattva who saves the suffering, the spark of life struggling out of a withered tree.

She came for all living beings.

They were born for her.

Greedy demons and a compassionate Bodhisattva.

They were made for each other.

Theme: World peace