In Du Xian, the heroine Yin Zhouxuan is a typical frail, delicate white lotus from a melodramatic tragedy. The hero abuses her, her closest family betray her, and the whole world despises her. In the end, she sacrifices herself for the Dao, making the hero shed a few perfunctory tears before he wins her back and gets a happy ending.
Duan Yunci got a headache from watching the contrived plot unfold, and that very night she was so furious she passed out.
As luck would have it, she transmigrated into this melodramatic tragedy. The System told her:
1. Save Yin Zhouxuan, whose sword bone was ripped out and who took the heavenly tribulation meant for the hero’s beloved.
2. Defy heaven’s will and change Yin Zhouxuan’s fate.
Duan Yunci: “I’m just a cannon-fodder character who gets written out in the first chapter…”
In the original story, Duan Yunci died in the first chapter when the hero shouted, “I’ll make the whole world pay for her!” Seeing how obnoxiously smug the hero looked, she grabbed her magical weapon, beat him up on the spot, and ran off with the frail Yin Zhouxuan in her arms.
And so Duan Yunci began her path of redemption:
Snatching the hero’s opportunities to refine Yin Zhouxuan’s cultivation.
What she said: “I can’t use this thing. It’d be a waste to throw it away!”
What she thought: “Of course all the good stuff is for my baby! Everyone else, step aside!”
Studying medicine and making tonics to treat the lingering effects of Yin Zhouxuan’s illness.
What she said: “Drink this bowl of tonic. If you want to be my wife, don’t hold me back.”
What she thought: “You’re so thin, baby. You’ll really never be able to top anyone at this rate.”
Even on cold winter nights, despite her own injuries, she would warm Yin Zhouxuan’s bed.
What she said: “If the cold gets into your body, even immortal arts won’t be able to save you later.”
What she thought: “The heroine has suffered so much. What’s wrong with warming her bed a little… Come cuddle, big sis!”
After Duan Yunci helped the heroine defy fate and become the most revered Immortal Venerable in the cultivation world, the heroine successfully fell for her, too.
In the bridal chamber, with red candles flickering, she watched Yin Zhouxuan lift her veil. The System in her mind suddenly began to announce:
[Congratulations, Host. You have unlocked the second half of the original story.]
Yin Zhouxuan was an ancient fallen god, a supreme immortal cultivator of the Heartless Dao. To undergo a trial of love in the mortal world, she had to obtain the heart’s blood of the person who was the focus of her trial. In the original story, on her wedding day, Yin Zhouxuan slaughtered more than a hundred members of the hero’s clan and ascended to divinity in a frenzy of bloodlust.
At that moment, the peerlessly beautiful woman had already slipped out of her clothes and into her arms. Yin Zhouxuan touched a fingertip to her beating chest and smiled.
“Ah Ci’s thoughts are even more heated than the cauldrons of the Acacia Sect.”
“Let me guess. What are you thinking about right now, on our wedding night?”
#It’s over, the heroine heard every dirty thing I said!
#I thought she was a delicate white lotus, but she’s actually a black lotus
#I was just talking big! I really didn’t mean to make you fall for me… Why are you taking off my clothes?
Reader’s guide:
#The top and bottom are exclusively devoted to each other in body and mind throughout; they only love one another
#The author’s personal tastes: the bottom is a black lotus, seemingly a frail white lotus on the surface but actually a deranged yandere. There may be confinement, non-consensual wall scenes, and so on.
Theme: Your fate is in your own hands