After Seeking the Hand of the Female Lead's Sickly Mother

Lu Zhaoyue transmigrated into a book.

The original owner of her body was the young sect master of a top sect, with powerful backing and a life that should have gone smoothly. But because she had a grudge against Long Aotian, she opposed the male lead at every turn, constantly competing with him for resources and love interests. In the end, not only was her sect destroyed because of her, but she was also reduced to ashes.

Having learned her fate in advance, the original owner ran away, and unlucky Lu Zhaoyue was pulled into her place.

The good news was that she still had a year before her death. The bad news was that she was in the middle of the plot that would kill the original owner: proposing to the heroine at the same time as the male lead.

Lu Zhaoyue touched her neck, looked at the betrothal gifts she had laid out, then at the male lead, who held grudges fiercely. Caught between a rock and a hard place, inspiration struck. She turned to the heroine's beautiful mother and said, "I have long cherished feelings for you, Madam. Please marry me!"

Lu Zhaoyue thought she would just get past the immediate crisis. She never expected the beautiful mother to actually accept her, much less that the male lead, who had long considered her a burden, would trick the heroine into leaving and dump her mother on Lu Zhaoyue.

The heroine was beautiful and frail, and her mother was no less so.

She could not stand the heat or swallow anything cold, and was more delicate than fine porcelain.

Lu Zhaoyue considered herself a good girl. She could not bring herself to abandon a woman unable to cultivate in the depths of the mountains, so she had no choice but to keep the beautiful mother by her side. "Since you have no daughter with you now, why not acknowledge me as your daughter? I will care for you for the rest of my life."

Lu Zhaoyue thought that since the beautiful mother could not cultivate, she would live at most another hundred years.

She never expected the beautiful mother to fall into demonic cultivation for her, forcibly borrowing the power of sinister energy to gain more lifespan and strength.

Even more unexpectedly, they kept crossing the line and sharing a bed, yet the beautiful mother could still call her Zhaor in a perfectly calm voice.

Lu Zhaoyue watched helplessly as the beautiful mother, who had been panting softly in her arms all night, held up portrait after portrait and asked what kind of stepmother she wanted, while bearing countless faint kiss marks. Both angry and jealous, Lu Zhaoyue said, "Since you have no husband by your side now, why not marry me? I'm better than all of them."

The beautiful mother gazed at her gently, neither agreeing nor refusing.

In a panic, Lu Zhaoyue cried, "Mother! Why won't you say yes?"

The beautiful mother's face quietly turned red. She gave Lu Zhaoyue an reproachful glance. "Zhaor, how long are you going to keep calling me Mother? Are you going to take back your words again after saying you'll marry me?"

[Little Theater]

Hua Yanjiao was once an elder of the Immortal Alliance's Discipline Hall, and valued rules and etiquette above all. It was inevitable that she was somewhat old-fashioned.

In her life, she had only gone against the rules she held inside twice: once when she gave birth to the daughter conceived after swallowing a spirit fruit, and once when she took the initiative to seduce the young girl who showed her respect in words but never knew her limits day after day.

Those burdened with upholding order and required to act by the rules always pay a price when they break them. Giving birth to a child left her crippled, while seducing Lu Zhaoyue left her helpless, unable to get out of bed.

Lu Zhaoyue was always eager for more. "Mother, I want more!"

The blush already floating over Hua Yanjiao's skin grew even brighter, and her voice trembled more and more. "Zhaor, I'll... I'll give you everything, but don't... don't call me Mother anymore."

Reading Guide:

1. A pretty, greedy, fickle younger top who keeps changing her mind, paired with an old-fashioned, chaste, indulgent older bottom

2. The original heroine was born from a spirit fruit, and is her biological daughter

2025/10/16

Theme: Deception is not a good habit