I Heard Someone Call Me to Save the World

[A demon male lead who knows nothing of love and woos himself by imagining things based on plays]

[Clear-headed, rational, self-interested spirit summoner heroine who keeps her head down and focuses on her career]

Gu Yue transmigrated.

She arrived in a dynasty where the imperial family and cultivation sects worked together to rule the country.

A soul-summoning array brought her there. When she first met Qi Lan, he mistook her for an accomplice of an evil spirit and stabbed her, sending her tumbling down a cliff.

The good news was that she survived. The bad news was that Qi Lan tied her up again.

Though he looked like he wanted to kill her, his eyes also revealed an affection that sent chills down her back.

He said, "I've been searching for ten years. At last, I've waited for you to be reborn."

She said, "Have you considered that you might have the wrong person?"

By the time she finally made it back to the Ling family, the richest family in the land, where her original self had lived, another bombshell came crashing down: "You were adopted by your mother. Go find that person, and don't forget who you are."

Don't forget?

She didn't even remember in the first place.

But she didn't care about their so-called identities or being someone's lost love reborn. She just wanted to go home.

But fate had other plans. The current emperor's son coveted her spirit summoner bloodline, whose yang energy was exceptionally strong. He tried to use it to open a passage to another world, coercing and tempting her, and launched a coup to seize the throne.

The prince laughed manically. "If I can't sit on the throne, then I'll overturn it so no one else can sit there either."

In this unfamiliar world, with a storm approaching, she had no one to rely on.

So when Qi Lan appeared before her again, she chose to work with him.

Being a stand-in for his lost love was fine. Staying alive and getting home came first.

The first time, Qi Lan looked down from on high at her, battered and bruised.

"How could someone as talkative as you possibly be her?"

The second time, Qi Lan took her to the temple where his lost love's memorial tablet was enshrined. She slapped him across the face.

"Qi Lan, take a good look at who is standing right in front of you."

The third time, Qi Lan tried to win her over with the mung bean cakes his lost love had liked. After hearing a few girls tease them by the roadside, he insisted on taking her to a clothing shop to have an outfit made. She refused him at every turn, and he went off to drink his sorrows away alone.

"Is it wrong to treat her well? I missed my chance once. I don't want to miss it a second time."

The Nth time, she happened to learn that Qi Lan liked going to the theater to listen to storytellers. Curious, she dragged him along.

Unexpectedly, Qi Lan imagined: "The storybooks say that when ordinary people love someone, they want to do the things that person likes."

And so he became an impossible-to-shake-off clingy nuisance.

Just as she was beginning to be moved by Qi Lan's advances, someone told her that Qi Lan had personally killed his lost love all those years ago.

As she hesitated, wanting to know the truth, Qi Lan disappeared without a single explanation.

She hadn't even had a chance to wait for Qi Lan to return when someone else abducted her. The first thing he said upon seeing her was, "I've finally found you. I knew that if I set up soul-summoning arrays everywhere, I'd find you in one of your reincarnations."

That sounded a little familiar.

The newcomer claimed to be the son of the current empress and said he had been her childhood sweetheart.

So whose lost love was she, exactly?

Which one of you copied the other's homework?

[Fake Stand-In, Chasing the Wife to the Crematorium]

[Serious Story, Plot-Focused, No Cheap Drama, No Angsty Abuse, Happy Ending]

Coming soon in my collection: Why Should I Love You?

A straight man seeks revenge and ends up bending himself online.

He picked the wrong person to take revenge on, but got himself a partner.

He went too far. How does he get out now? Help, anyone online?

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Theme: No matter the past or present life, the only one who matters is the person before you.