Beauty Brings Calamity, Yet She Won't Sleep

*The worldbuilding means a slow buildup. The CP's journey officially begins in Chapter 8. *Nine-tailed fox (male fox spirit) *transmigration into another body *fake incest *revenge Blurb 1: Heroine: A pitiful disciple seeking revenge & Hero: A nine-tailed fox repaying a life debt At first, Cheng Shiliu only hoped to avenge her great wrongs so she could set out for home. The thought of returning was the only thing that kept her going. But now, the word “home” was the one she dreaded most. This place was not her homeland. She was surviving in someone else's body, having taken the place of the family's elder daughter, who had died young. What unsettled her most was that this false younger brother, who had lost one family member after another and called her his elder sister, had developed feelings for her that he should not have. Cats have nine lives, foxes have nine tails, and Gu Xiao was a nine-tailed fox. Cats are good at clinging to life, and nine-tailed foxes have nine lives too. Yet he did the stupidest thing imaginable. To repay the kindness of the person who saved his life as a child, Gu Xiao generously gave up one of his fox tails and used it to fashion a complete body for the dying Cheng Shiliu, pulling her back from death's door. But after that, everything went wrong. Facing the girl formed from his own tail, Gu Xiao's heart raced and his feelings grew restless. The lovestruck little fox fell into a spiral of agonizing self-doubt, asking himself every day: I'm doomed. Could I be a pathological narcissist, longing for a phantom made from one of my own tails? Fate was absurd, and nothing was up to him. He desperately tried to convince himself: This isn't narcissism. It's just gratitude... Maybe I should try repaying her by offering myself?! Blurb 2: Heroine: Reincarnation of a femme fatale & Hero: The illegitimate son of a disgraced prince War beacons blazed along the borders, river pirates ran amok, and savage foreign raiders repeatedly ravaged the land. Even after fighting with their lives, the border troops struggled to defend the kingdom. Gu Xiao was the illegitimate son of a disgraced prince. At eight, he fled with his mother and elder sister among a stream of refugees. He fell from a cliff and was rescued by a grandfather and grandchild living in seclusion in the mountains. Gu Xiao survived his ordeal, but then they parted ways, never to meet again amid the vast sea of people. Eight years passed in a flash. The little girl who had once saved his life had grown into a sixteen-year-old. But after her grandfather was murdered by villains, she changed her name to Cheng Shiliu, meaning “pomegranate weeping blood,” and swore to take revenge. During a full-moon Mid-Autumn night, Cheng Shiliu's soul transmigrated into the body of Gu Xiao's elder sister, who had long been “dead.” When the body buried in the graveyard suddenly returned, Gu Xiao was horrified, certain his sister had risen from the dead. As they spent day and night together and the layers of mystery were peeled away, Gu Xiao finally realized that the soul inside this body belonged to the girl who had saved him beneath the cliff all those years ago. 【Reader's Guide】 1. The story spans three points in time in the heroine Cheng Shiliu's life: ages eight, sixteen, and twenty-six. Volumes 1–3 are the prologue to her story at age twenty-six; Chapters 4–7 establish the hero Gu Xiao's character. The extra prologue explains the background of the whole story. From Chapter 8 onward, Volume 2 begins and fully tells the story of the heroine at sixteen. 2. Happy ending. Definitely, absolutely, and without question. 3. The story is fully outlined, so read with confidence. I promise to finish it! 4. It's now among the site's rising new books! Its best ranking was fourth in the historical-romance category, which already makes me very happy. Thanks to everyone following the updates and sending tips! I'll keep working hard and aim to finish the book. Please keep bookmarking and following me, thank you! Theme: True love and truth go hand in hand, making for a harmonious society.