Ning Yao, a professional transmigrator into a book, decided to finish one last job and then retire.
She transmigrated into a cultivation world and, following the System's script, became Dao companions with the male lead, Shen Changqing.
She was always prepared to stage a tragic fake death at the right moment, helping the male lead cultivate the merciless Dao.
Shen Changqing left on a long journey and did not return for months.
One drizzly day, Ning Yao saw a familiar, graceful figure beneath the eaves. She went over, wrapped her arms around him, and tenderly recited her scripted lines.
The man she held stiffened. After hearing her speak of how much she'd missed him during the months apart, he turned and put an arm around her waist. A knowing smile played on his thin lips. "My wife, I've missed you too."
Everything that followed seemed perfectly natural.
But Ning Yao couldn't help noticing that after her "Dao companion" returned, his habits, personality, and even his preferences in dual cultivation seemed to have changed completely.
It wasn't until her "Dao companion" tricked her into going to a demonic cultivator's territory, where he confined her and entangled her night after night, that the System, offline for ages, finally appeared and told her the dreadful truth.
[Host, you flirted with the wrong person. This is the male lead's twin older brother, the great villain who is destined to be killed by the male lead!]
[And don't you remember? Hundreds of years ago, he was your very first job. You played his deceased white moonlight!]
Ning Yao: "..."
She knew retirement was never going to be that easy!
Shen Jin had watched the love of his life die in his arms, and so he fell into demonic cultivation and turned against his brother.
At first, he brought Ning Yao back just so his younger brother could experience the pain of losing someone he loved.
He was eager to see how his younger brother would react when he found out. Would he resent and hate her, and turn his sword against her? Or would he suffer as Shen Jin had, consumed by grief and falling into demonic cultivation?
Then he saw his younger brother storm his Luan Hall with a sword in hand. The moment he saw Ning Yao, his brother looked at her like a lost treasure. They gazed into each other's eyes through their tears and embraced tightly, like a pair of ill-fated lovers torn apart.
Ning Yao didn't even look at Shen Jin. She followed his brother and left without once looking back.
Shen Jin could no longer keep his composure. His face twisted as he crushed the cup in his hand, piece by piece.
Later, when he learned that Ning Yao was the long-dead white moonlight he had loved but could never have,
Shen Jin went mad.
Shen Changqing went mad too.
My newlywed Dao companion is actually my long-dead sister-in-law?
#Little brother's wife, open up. It's your husband's brother.
#My newlywed Dao companion is my older brother's long-dead white moonlight.
#Professional supporting actress suffers a crushing defeat, and is forced to juggle two scripts.
A 1v1 romance in stages, with the brothers taking turns in the spotlight. The bonus chapters have different endings. Neither male lead is a good person.
A melodramatic romance. I love writing the kind of stories people call tacky. I might start this one next, please add it to your collection!
Blurb screenshot from 2024.11.10
Theme: You can't buy a cure for regret.