Transmigrating into a book did Tang Sui no good at all.
At ten, she nearly froze to death in a snowstorm. Her senior sister brushed away the snow and brought her into the sect.
At thirteen, she fought a demon and became a sickly "good-for-nothing."
At fifteen, through a lucky coincidence, she discovered a rare cultivation technique, but at eighteen, her cultivation went awry.
That year, her senior sister went to seek spiritual medicine for her, but never returned.
Not long afterward, their master brought back a girl who looked seven parts like the senior sister and took her in as his last disciple.
From then on, their aloof master became tender as water, the sect's uncles doted on her, and even Tang Sui's senior brothers acted as if they'd all been bewitched, fawning over the girl with lovesick looks.
That made Tang Sui seem like a gloomy, emotionally detached slacker.
When the senior sister finally returned, the last disciple's eyes reddened and tears fell into their master's palm as she said in disbelief, "So I was only a substitute..."
A substitute?
Ha! Could you hold a candle to even a fraction of my senior sister? You're not even good enough to be a stand-in.
But everyone in the sect looked terribly guilty. They couldn't even spare a moment to ask how the senior sister was feeling, worrying only about the other girl's mood.
Tang Sui gave a few cold laughs, then finally realized: she'd transmigrated into a book where the entire sect would be dragged through the wringer over the "substitute."
Originally, Tang Sui was supposed to be one of the many senior brothers in that groveling procession. But if she had to be someone's dark, scheming male supporting character, she might as well own it.
With a mocking smile, Tang Sui took her senior sister's hand and said in front of them all, "Senior Sister, it seems I'm the only one who truly loves you. That fake looks downright hideous next to you~"
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Lou Yue and his twin sister were cursed from childhood: the flower and the leaf could never appear together. Whenever one came into the world, the other had to hide away like a corpse.
He was a good-for-nothing, so it didn't matter whether he showed his face or not.
But no matter how things went, the ending shouldn't have been this: he gave up his freedom, while his heaven-blessed sister lay miserably and helplessly asleep forever in the depths of the mountains.
And that wretched sect had even found a counterfeit to worship.
Lou Yue maliciously disguised himself as his sister, determined to throw the whole sect into chaos.
Yet amid all those wary, unwelcoming stares, one pair of bright, clear eyes looked at him with nothing but joy. The person gently leaned into his arms.
"Senior Sister, why did it take you so long to come back..."
It made his heart itch with longing and filled him with tenderness.
His sister's little junior sister, the one she always talked about...
Now, she was his little junior sister.
A gloomy heroine who got the male second-lead role × a hero forced into the heroine's role
[The heroine, Tang Sui, is a merfolk by birth. Everyone else thinks she hasn't undergone differentiation yet and just likes wearing women's clothes, so they treat her as a junior or senior brother who enjoys cross-dressing.]
The cover character design is not exclusive. The artist's authorization is from artist y Cai Yu [Guangming Ding].
Theme: Seize the day and never forget your original aspirations