Bad news: You Ling has transmigrated into a book. Good news: she got a golden finger.
She can turn a person of her choice into a love-struck fool for three months.
For those three months, they’ll fall hopelessly in love with her, throwing logic and their own boundaries to the wind.
Afterward, that false love will turn into a bone-deep hatred. The more deeply they loved her, the more they’ll hate her.
She’s absolutely going to die horribly!
The skill has harsh requirements, a long cooldown, and a terrible risk-to-reward ratio. You Ling really doesn’t want to use it unless she has no other choice.
Who would have thought that she’d have no other choice the moment she transmigrated?
You Ling’s entry point into the book is practically hell mode. She’s become the substitute who takes the fall for the villainess. On the surface, she’s a wicked demoness who has done every evil deed imaginable and wreaks havoc wherever she goes. In reality, she’s just a weak, useless puppet with ruined spiritual roots.
The demoness wants to take the gifted male lead as her cultivation vessel. She drugs him and tries to force him, but fails. Enraged, she pierces the female lead’s lute bones, intending to use her as leverage to make the male lead give in. She even makes him perform a bedchamber scene with her in front of the female lead.
Naturally, such despicable acts bring the whole cultivation world down on her. Jiang Jinyue, the leader of the righteous sects, personally comes to kill her to avenge his disciple.
Knowing she can’t escape death, the demoness pushes her substitute forward and plans to slip away unnoticed.
You Ling is about to die by the sword of the righteous sects’ leader, giving the demoness a chance to lie low and rise again.
At this very moment, Jiang Jinyue has found her, and his fatal strike is right before her eyes.
What else can she do? You Ling immediately activates her skill on Jiang Jinyue.
His sword, brimming with murderous intent, stops abruptly before her chest. In full view of the crowd, the righteous sects’ leader, bright as the moon, suddenly changes expression. The blade that was about to take her life vanishes, replaced by his long, pale hand, which trembles slightly as it reaches for her chest.
“…”
You Ling slaps him hard.
Why is he groping her right off the bat?!
[I survived thanks to my “Love-Struck for a Limited Time” skill. My former nemesis is madly in love with me every day, but my notes contain just one thing: 89 days until he hates me to the bone and comes back to kill me.]
2025.12.9
Starting this new project at 6 a.m. on September 1.
Synopsis: Ling Sui didn’t know she had transmigrated into a book at first.
She was born into a small sect. Her father was its leader, and she and her senior brother grew up together. The two were engaged the year he established his foundation.
There was a rule in the sect that disciples had to go down the mountain to gain experience after establishing their foundation. So, just a few days after their engagement, her senior brother left.
Ling Sui was reluctant to part with him. She thought she might not see him for three to five years, but her parents said that her senior brother had a natural sword bone and was a cultivation prodigy. What took others three to five years to accomplish, he could manage in three to five months.
Ling Sui thought that made sense. So, three months after he left the sect, she started waiting for him at the mountain gate every day.
Unfortunately, she never saw him return.
He vanished without a trace. If his soul lamp hadn’t remained lit, she would have thought he’d died out there.
Years later, Ling Sui went to watch the Immortal Realm tournament. She heard that Zhenjun Linhua of the foremost immortal sect had a natural sword bone and was exceptionally handsome, making him one of the favorites to win this year’s competition.
That title sounded familiar.
Ling Sui didn’t think much of it at the time. She dug out all her money, ready to bet everything on Zhenjun Linhua. The odds weren’t great, but it was a sure thing.
Just before she placed her bet, someone shouted, “Isn’t that Zhenjun Linhua?!”
Ling Sui looked over and saw her senior brother’s face, unchanged after all these years.
He really hadn’t died.
Not only was he alive, he was thriving. He’d become a renowned powerhouse in the cultivation world, studied under a Dao Lord who had survived the tribulation, and was always seen with the most beautiful woman under heaven.
He remembered nothing of his past, and had even abandoned his original name.
It was only when Ling Sui heard his new name that she realized she had transmigrated into a book.
She’d landed in a groveling-romance novel, and the male lead was her senior brother.
The novel said that the biggest source of angst between the male and female leads was that, before he met the heroine, the male lead had once had a fiancée.
That engagement had been forced on him by his first master.
After losing his memory in an accident, he met the heroine, and the two fell in love.
In the original story, he happened to be recognized by his former fiancée at an immortal sect tournament.
He wanted to make it up to his former fiancée, for whom he felt nothing, in other ways. But she refused to let it go, making trouble every day until everyone hated her. In the end, she got what she deserved after scheming against the heroine out of greed, and died a miserable death in the bottomless abyss.
Ling Sui, the former fiancée he felt nothing for, silently tightened her grip on her Qiankun pouch and put her spirit stones on another favorite to win.
That jerk would’ve been better off dying out there!
Theme: Survive with false affection, weather tribulations with a true heart.
When an Alpha Transmigrates into a Book as a Substitute
Yao Guang Wuji
How to Survive Under the Substitute Sword Venerable
Can You Spare the Original Heroine?
After We Broke Up, My Boyfriend Became a Celestial Master
My Gentle, Powerful, Short-Lived Husband
Fox Spirits Never Have a Happy Ending
The Female Cannon Fodder Is Being Pursued by the Male Lead
Night Walkers in the Mortal World
The Male Lead Has Stockholm Syndrome
How Do I Get Out of Being the Male Lead's Inner Demon?
Filthy Moon
Aren’t I the Primary Husband?
My Sword
With the Snake
EN
My Junior Sister Can’t Possibly Be a Silly Sweetheart
Yin Chunhen, Who Hates Me
Ascending Dragon
Do You Have a White Peacock?
21+
Transmigrated into the Adoptive Sister of the Male Lead Who Called Off the Engagement
The Immortal Sect’s Number One Lackey
Capture the Jade
Bewitching Formation
Carry Me Across the Nine Heavens
Nine Cauldrons
As a Dance Cultivator, I Really Can Save the World!
My Master Is Cultivating the Heartless Dao
What’s Wrong with a World-Destroying Dragon Hatchling?
After Saving the Male Supporting Character, I Faked My Death Nine Times [Quick Transmigration]
Farm Owner in an Ancient Qi Cultivation World
Reforming the Villain Couple's Everyday Life
Yearning for the Morning
He was about to break down; the two of them were fighting, and then she still didn't want him.
Suddenly I remembered that Lao Jiang's primordial yang is so weak! It's the least beneficial and smallest boost I've seen for the female lead in all the fantasy novels I've read. 🤔
In the end, I guess the female lead still ran away? Did the male lead manage to coax himself out of it? [Laughing and crying emojis] They're really two miserable souls 🤔 Actually, the female lead is also quite pitiful; she faced death right after transmigrating ε=(´ο`*))) Sigh
The female lead is so lonely 😭 Can we help her make some close friends? 🥺 Male or female, it doesn't matter 🎉 I want more chapters!
I was so angry at what the female apprentice did! 😡 The female lead should leave quickly, make good friends, grow up, and start a new life. When she encounters someone who is genuinely kind and caring, it's best to break the curse, feel no guilt, have no connection, and live peacefully separately. Let the old man regret it!
Jiang Jinyue, who loves Youling, has been defeated 🤔
That's right, she should have left a long time ago. You still ignore the male lead, send her to live on the edge. Xiao Ling is so brave, she has given you so many chances. I am such a wonderful female lead, and you have kept me hidden for so long. It's time for the second or third male lead to take a look.
Old Jiang, like a resentful woman, took the children to find his wife who had run away from home, only to discover she was out having a good time with her lover. 🐶🐶🐶
Is this the end? Can I get an extra chapter today? [Hugging for help][hugging for help][hugging for help]
Ahhhhh, the female lead with the long beak! 😆😆 Our Yuling baby is just so wonderful! What's wrong with saying it? Love should be expressed loudly! [Facepalm peeking]