Zuo Huaiqing, the leading Sentinel of Tantan Tower, was praised by everyone for her nobility and grace, and mourned for dying so young.
After busybodies had finished picking over Zuo Huaiqing's life, they would always bring up another person:
Lin Suyan, the Sentinel from Meizhou Tower, who had fought Zuo Huaiqing tooth and nail. They were rivals who could never share the same stage.
No one knew that when Lin Suyan heard of Zuo Huaiqing's death, her first reaction was regret.
Just as no one knew that the leaders of two enemy city-states had once been intimate.
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Lin Suyan once thought that from then on, she could only remember Zuo Huaiqing in her dreams.
So when she woke from one such dream, she ruthlessly eliminated her rivals, cultivated allies on every side, and climbed to the top.
Then a mission took her to the borderlands.
Her dream lover had become the head of a church there, and had already thrown plenty of obstacles in the way of Lin Suyan's business, both openly and behind the scenes.
Worse still,
Lin Suyan realized she was still in love with her.
Two powerful women, Sentinel and Guide | Both are villains | A stand-in-for-the-beloved trope | A possessive gong who struggles with her feelings early on and becomes extremely possessive after her identity is exposed, and a shou who is everyone's unforgettable first love
Reader's guide:
There is a secondary couple, all women.
Unless otherwise specified, all characters are women. No adult men have a positive role.
They switch roles in essence, but my tastes mean Lin Suyan is written as the gong more often.
(Spirit forms: snake x snow fox)
[Thank you for adding this to your collection! It really means a lot to me!]
My next book is Ice-Cold Step-Sister Omega Becomes a Brooding Obsessive. Here's the blurb in advance, please add it to your collection ₍ᵔ・•・ᵔ₎
Cen Xian finally learns she's an illegitimate child from a wealthy family. But more terrifying than her melodramatic birth secret is that she's fallen in love with the true heiress.
Cen Xian feels guilty. A girl just beginning to experience love, the wildest dream she's ever had is kissing her drunk older sister.
She dreams of a love that lasts forever, and even when she tries to please Cen Daiyun, she does so carefully, afraid her sister will hate her.
Yet Cen Daiyun boldly stands up for her in public, showing no courtesy to anyone who dares to give her a hard time.
Away from the banquet, Cen Xian and her sister kiss.
Her glands are bitten until not a single patch of skin is left unmarked. Bruised all over and carrying her sister's scent, she is taken home. She asks her carefully:
"We're the closest people in the world to each other, aren't we?"
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They share half their blood, so they ought to be the closest people in the world. Full of hope, Cen Xian waits, only to receive a farewell letter and find herself blocked.
None of the texts she sends get a reply. Separated by time zones and a screen, no one notices her obsession growing more intense.
She frantically pieces together Cen Daiyun's life from the news, desperately searching for a connection between herself and her sister.
Cen Xian thinks she'll be ignored by her sister for the rest of her life, but by chance she gets her hands on an audit case involving the Cen family. At last, she has a reason they have to meet.
On the day they reunite, Cen Xian arrives with a whole team, waiting for her. She watches Cen Daiyun's face turn livid, entirely satisfied.
"You look a little displeased, Ms. Cen."
"You're not afraid I'll play dirty, are you... Sister?"
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At eighteen, Cen Xian watches her sister drive their biological father to his death. Her sister, who has plotted every move, smiles with a bloodthirsty air.
"I'm not a good person. I'm going to hell."
"You're still my sister."
At twenty-eight, Cen Xian corners her sister, pressing her fingers against the cold tile.
"You're... You're going to hell for this."
"That's right. Then let's go to hell together."
Theme: Even villains can be brought to heel by other villains
💪 The writing is so interesting, I'll check it out tonight when I have free time [Spread Flowers]
Thank you to heaven, thank you to earth, thank you for your hard work~
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Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh, it's you as expected 💪 💪
So is Sister Zuo Xiaolin's teacher?