My Fiancés Keep Dying, One After Another

[The main story is told from the heroine's perspective; the first half of the blurb is from the hero's perspective]

The only connection between Qi Jianbai and Wen Chao was that Wen Chao was his senior brother's fiancee.

Orphaned at a young age, he was brought into the immortal sect by his senior brother, where he found shelter.

His senior brother was as refined as a gentle breeze and bright moon, and his fiancee was kind, considerate, gentle, and generous. Everyone in the cultivation world said they were a perfect match.

Only Qi Jianbai knew that Wen Chao was not what she seemed, and that beneath her compassionate, bodhisattva-like exterior lay a vicious heart.

He despised her.

*

The day after his senior brother died, Wen Chao wept as though her heart were breaking. She gripped the coffin so tightly that her knuckles turned red.

Qi Jianbai lowered his eyelids, his gaze fixed on her reddened fingers.

For the first time in his life, he hated his senior brother so much.

*

Qi Jianbai began running into Wen Chao more and more often.

On a chilly night, she came across Qi Jianbai, his eyes red at the corners.

Qi Jianbai had just returned from killing someone. Not wanting her to smell the blood on him, he snapped at her harshly. "What are you looking at? Go back to your room."

Wen Chao stared at him for a moment, then put on that utterly insincere smile of hers. She rushed over and handed him the hand warmer she was carrying, warming his icy body.

There was no telling how much of what she said was sincere and how much was false. "Qi Jianbai, I'll be there for you from now on."

*

Qi Jianbai began learning how to be a considerate junior fellow disciple.

He learned to buy her plenty of dresses, jewelry, and pastries.

But there was always a corner of Wen Chao's room, filled with her senior brother's belongings, that nothing could replace. Whenever Wen Chao went over to it, her eyes would redden without her realizing it.

Qi Jianbai thought, So what if Senior Brother is dead? He never made Wen Chao happy when he was alive, and now that he's dead, he can make her cry instead.

But it was all right. From now on, he would make Wen Chao happy.

*

Wen Chao was the one who broke her promise. Her second chance at love came unexpectedly, and soon she was going to exchange betrothal cards with the eldest disciple of the Lingfeng Sect.

Qi Jianbai learned the news while eliminating a demon.

He gave the long sword in his hand a gentle thrust. The demon shrieked and vanished into ash.

His expression was unreadable, but in a matter of moments, he had thought of a solution.

Cultivators died in all sorts of ways. So many people died every day; one more wouldn't make a difference.

If Wen Chao married one man, he would kill him.

*

The day the truth came out, Wen Chao stared at him in terror, her fingers clamped tightly around her door, refusing to let him in.

Looking at her reddened knuckles, Qi Jianbai wondered, Is she gripping it as tightly as she once gripped her fiance?

Wen Chao was supposed to be afraid of death. But that day, she grasped Qi Jianbai's hand with such resolve and drove his sword into her own heart.

*

The world of fiction is always full of inexplicable cannon fodder. As a member of the Transmigration Bureau, Wen Chao's first assignment was to play a sacrificial character in a xianxia novel.

But xianxia novels needed far too many sacrificial characters: the vicious, sharp-tongued supporting villainess; the genteel young lady whose kind and generous fiance dies young; the poor orphan girl whose husband kills her to prove his Dao...

You should love the work you do, so Wen Chao diligently got down to business. Her KPI was steadily climbing, until one day it suddenly stalled.

Her targets kept dying for no apparent reason!

Wen Chao was horrified to discover that the culprit was Qi Jianbai, the junior disciple of the senior brother who had been her fiance two fiances ago.

She agonized over it all afternoon and decided she couldn't let things continue like this. Leaving Qi Jianbai was the best solution.

So she devised a plan and died calmly by his sword, delighted in her heart. Great, now I can get back to my assignments and earn my performance bonus!

*

Two hundred years after faking her death and escaping, Qi Jianbai caught her again.

By then, he had become a peerless demonic cultivator, feared throughout the cultivation world. He was surrounded by an uncountable aura of malice, his features cold and sharp.

Qi Jianbai curved his lips. The more his smile seemed like a spring breeze, the more frightened Wen Chao became.

He no longer used a sword. His words were more intimidating than one.

Qi Jianbai suppressed the countless desires and madness surging in his heart and said, "Chaochao, come here."

[One-on-one, both leads have only ever been with each other]

1. The hero's senior brother isn't a good person. His death is no great loss.

2. Chaochao was so upset when she saw him die because she'd lost her meal ticket. Apart from Qi Jianbai, everyone else is just a cold mission target to her.

3. The hero has no morals. Judge him, not Chaochao or me. Thank you, everyone! vv

Theme: It's all for the KPI!!