[Low-energy scaredy-cat x high-energy beagle]
As someone from the Transmigration Bureau who spent years playing a background character, Zhu Mingzhi learned one precious lesson early:
Cherish your life and stay away from the protagonist.
Especially the protagonist's opportunities.
So when a mission in an xianxia world went wrong, cutting her off from the System and forcing her to become bound in marriage to a cannon-fodder character who hadn't even been named in the original story, her first reaction was to breathe a sigh of relief.
Until the System was repaired, she would keep her head down and have absolutely nothing to do with the protagonist.
Her husband was a cannon fodder with no role in the story at all, so surely he wouldn't be the troublemaking type
"What kind of top sect leader can't even take a hit?"
The yellow-haired youth stomped the original male lead's head into the dirt, looking thoroughly disappointed.
Zhu Mingzhi's vision went black.
Yan Xingxiao, eighteen years old, the classic arrogant, heaven-defying hero type, but not the protagonist of this world.
He couldn't outshine the male lead, so he was fated to have a short life and die young, erased by the Heavenly Dao.
But a heaven-defying hero would charge ahead, shouting, "I decide my own fate, not the heavens!"
Later, Mingzhi was carried along by Yan Xingxiao all the way to ascension, trembling with fear every day, never knowing when righteous retribution would descend from the heavens and kill them both.
"Heh, how about this fire poker?"
That's the original male lead's life-bound sword!
"The chicken soup I made tastes pretty good, right?"
That's the divine phoenix from an ancient secret realm!
"What are you standing around for? Call her sister-in-law!"
Those are the major villains from the original story!
The heaven-defying hero ignored the Heavenly Dao and did whatever he pleased.
Mingzhi was terrified and utterly exhausted.
Once the System was repaired, she ran without looking back.
The world would restart, the plot would be corrected, and Yan Xingxiao wouldn't remember that he'd ever had a wife.
When Mingzhi returned to this world, three hundred years had passed.
They said a Sword Demon had appeared in the east and wrecked the original plot beyond recognition. Even the System couldn't fix it.
Mingzhi, a background character, expertly played dead among a heap of corpses, only to be yanked out by someone.
The young man who had once dared to ask the Heavenly Dao about the rise and fall of fate had red-rimmed eyes. Gritting his teeth, he asked a question that didn't sound at all like something a heaven-defying hero would say:
"Why did you leave me?"
Reading Guide:
1. 1v1, HE
2. Not a strong female lead, not a female-centric story. Everything in the plot serves the romance. A sweet little treat.
*Blurb written on January 11, 2026
Theme: I decide my own fate, not the heavens
