After the Wicked Supporting Actress Decides to Die

[Blurb] Wen Sui transmigrates into a book, becoming a cannon-fodder female side character. Her only purpose is to create conflict between the male and female leads, push their relationship forward, and then die a miserable death.

She is so frail and sickly that she has only a few years left to live. To prolong her life, her master finds a man with a special constitution and binds him to her with a contract, planting a parasitic curse inside him and forcing him to use his blood and cultivation to keep her alive.

That man is the male lead.

At the start of the story, the male lead feeds her his own heart's blood. To keep her alive, he braves secret realms, kills powerful monsters, and gathers rare treasures. He even gives up his body, using dual cultivation to transfer his cultivation to her.

In the novel, controlled by the curse, he is oppressed by her, a vicious female side character. His life is unimaginably miserable, and he is driven into becoming a dark, crawling madman. Only after the female lead appears does his healing arc begin, and the story turns into a sweet romance.

As a vicious side character, Wen Sui naturally dies quietly in the end, with no one caring.

Wen Sui knows that she was born sickly. If her master hadn't used the curse to control the male lead and keep her alive, she would have died long ago.

Now the plot is unfolding, and the female lead has appeared. Wen Sui won't live much longer, and she stopped wanting to live a long time ago.

First, dragging this sickly body around is unbearable. Second, she doesn't want to drink anyone else's blood anymore.

After all these years, he must hate her to the core: hate how she clung to him without a care and drained his blood, hate that she was a burden, hate how she threatened him by activating the curse whenever she wanted, forcing him to keep her alive and to brave secret realms or even raid sects for treasure. Every time he came back drenched in blood and on the brink of death, and he even became the number one target on the kill list, hunted by countless sects.

Wen Sui thinks she really is cruel. Even her final act of kindness is only because she knows how her story ends.

She decides to die.

After the original plot points come true one by one, Wen Sui plans to first remove the curse her master placed on the male lead, then find somewhere rich in spiritual energy to live in seclusion and quietly wait for death.

After he feeds her blood yet again, Wen Sui pretends to be asleep, sneaks up, and takes out the mother curse her master gave her, intending to remove the curse from the male lead. But she is shocked to discover there is no curse inside him!

Then what did he mean just now when he said the curse was acting up and he needed to cultivate with her?

A chill runs up her spine. Wen Sui startles, and as her heart pounds, she lowers her eyes and meets a pair of eyes in the darkness.

They are black as ink, so deep she cannot see the bottom.

Suddenly, she feels as if she is about to be swallowed whole.

The male lead really has gone mad because of her.

PS: 1. The female lead was reincarnated into the world as a baby.

2. The male lead is pure in both body and heart.

3. Spoiled and sickly heroine vs. insecure, brooding, lovesick hero.

[Next Book Blurb] Cui Yue is an ordinary, unremarkable woman with no cultivation. She takes on a very special job: playing the deceased wife of an immortal lord.

She has heard of this immortal lord. He is the greatest swordsman in the righteous path and the most promising prodigy to ascend to immortality. But she has also heard that he has been mad for a long time.

Cui Yue sighs. It seems living a long life isn't always a good thing for cultivators.

At first, she hesitates. Even ordinary people like them, living at the foot of the mountain, have heard about the horrifying things this immortal lord did after his wife died. She is afraid too...

But in the end, Cui Yue accepts, simply because they are offering her far too much...

They tell her that she looks about seventy percent like his deceased wife. If she plays his wife for three years, steadies his Dao heart, and helps him advance in cultivation and attain the Great Dao, she will receive a large sum of money. They will also ensure that she and her parents live safely, free from illness and disaster.

That is far too tempting for an ordinary woman like her.

Fortune favors the bold, so Cui Yue agrees.

She thinks, it's just acting. She'll take the money and do the job properly. If her life is truly in danger, she'll run away. Surely no one could blame her for that...

Nervously, Cui Yue meets the immortal lord. He is indeed as handsome as the rumors say, beautiful as a celestial being. But... he doesn't seem like the madman the rumors described.

He seems perfectly normal.

Elegant and refined, serene and radiant. When he looks at her, the corners of his mouth lift slightly, and his face wears a warm smile like a spring breeze. She is almost dazed by it...

He seems to truly mistake her for his deceased wife. He is attentive and considerate, gentle in his manner, and even teaches her cultivation techniques. Cui Yue earnestly plays the role of his wife, treating him with mutual respect. In her spare time, she basks in the sun and practices her techniques. Her days are quite pleasant.

Yet the entire sect maintains a kind of calm.

A... strange calm.

And just like that, three years pass.

After receiving the promised money, Cui Yue packs her things and prepares to leave.

She hasn't said goodbye, and can't bring herself to do so. Instead, she plans to wait until nightfall, after he has gone to sleep, and slip away.

The moon hangs high. Just as she is about to leave the immortal mountain sect, its cold light spills around her feet, and a vast shadow suddenly falls over her.

As if sensing something, Cui Yue looks up and sees him standing silently in her path, his long hair loose around his shoulders.

She looks into his eyes, which seem on the verge of being swallowed by blood-red light. Her instincts warn her of danger, and her heart sinks uncontrollably.

Only now does she realize he really is the madman the rumors described.

Completely and utterly mad.

PS: Widower ghost hero x sincere, gentle heroine.

PPS: No mystery here: the heroine really is the deceased wife. I just want to enjoy a widower going mad with longing for his wife, then going even madder when he gets her back only to lose her again. Hehe.

Theme: Kindness never goes out of style.