After the Stand-In Top Took the Original's Place

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In the sixth year after being reborn, Xie Yang would sometimes remember that bamboo grove from his past life: Ji Qingshuang held in a man's arms, letting a sharp sword pierce his chest.

Blood sprayed everywhere as he fell into the icy snow, listening to the two of them play in perfect harmony.

Ji Qingshuang said, "Xie Yang was just a stand-in."

A stand-in for whom? Ji Qingshuang never said. The wind howled, and the man holding him grew ever more passionate.

Then came the ringing of swords, and everything fell into darkness.

Time flowed like water, and everything changed.

At the end of that winter, with new shoots just beginning to emerge, Xie Yang was lying on a parasol tree branch when the ringing of a sword startled him awake. For a long while, he couldn't come to his senses.

As his thoughts drifted, A Fu called out from the flowerbed, "Big brother, your fiance is here."

The air was still among the desolate, withered branches. Pei Yingwu, dressed in a lustrous white robe, walked beneath the ashen sky and stopped right beneath the parasol tree.

His expression was cool, a white jade pendant at his waist.

In an instant, a long-buried memory surfaced in Xie Yang's mind, raising a storm of emotions.

In his previous life, Xie Yang had been someone's stand-in for sixteen years. That person was peerless, a genius who stood apart even in the Sword Sect, where prodigies were everywhere, like snow beyond the snow.

And that person's name was Pei Yingwu.

Xie Yang * Pei Yingwu

From stand-ins to lovers, everyone gets their comeuppance

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[Quick Transmigration] So I Married a Monster

System 09 had seen it all. A top-rated System in the department dedicated to saving tragic villains, it carried the script and guided one Host after another to become a villain's guiding light, giving them money and love, suffering misunderstandings and getting caught up in their troubles, until they reached a happy ending.

But lately, System 09 kept hitting dead ends...

Because its Hosts didn't want to save the villains. Instead, they married monsters!

Arc One: Officer * Mutant

"In this cold, clammy, damp apocalypse, he was like a sun that would never go out." -- Preface to The Years of Contamination

He really was an ideal Host.

Strong, rational, with a stern and handsome face. He weighed good and evil on a scale and always held the correct counterweight.

The System believed that if it dangled saving the world as bait, he would surely complete the mission to save the villain.

Yet at their very first meeting, this Host shot the villain dead.

In the hazy mist, he lowered his golden eyes and asked coolly, "Aren't monsters made to be killed?"

Arc Two: Candidate Saint * Eight-Winged Angel

"The god bowed before him and offered him the highest authority." -- Afterword to The Kingdom of Angels

Love can easily grow out of hostility.

The System eyed the pure-white figure in priestly robes in the corner and decided to choose him as its Host.

He readily agreed. Following the plan, he brought a demon seed out of the forbidden grounds, loved it, nurtured it, watched it struggle as it fell into darkness, and finally offered it to the church.

Of course, he was good at lying.

He had once deceived a god.

Arc Three: Young Duke * Doll

Arc Four: Cool Immortal Venerable * Obsessive Heart Demon

Arc Five: Alpha Dragonkin * Reversionary Male Zerg

Theme: Love and peace