The Wicked Villainess Foil Is Defying Fate

The two female leads start out as rivals

Free-spirited, carefree, secretly ruthless senior sister × aloof, proud, and not one to mince words junior sister

Shi Cimo is straight. After she transmigrates into a book, she shuts her heart away behind concrete walls and swears off love for good.

That is because she transmigrates into the role of a vicious cannon-fodder foil: the kind who constantly schemes against and envies the heroine, only to be destroyed in the end as revenge reduces her to nothing.

What’s more, the foil setup is the real deal: she and the heroine are bound together, and whenever one of them has it good, the other is in for a run of bad luck.

Shi Cimo: ??? Are you kidding me?

To stay alive, Shi Cimo has no choice but to disguise herself, change her name, and hide her identity. She becomes the second disciple of the Enforcement Elder, putting on the act of an untouchable beauty with a perpetually cold expression.

As a rather small-minded “villain,” she finds the heroine irritating in every possible way.

So, after Shi Cimo’s relentless efforts, the heroine, who has been caught breaking the rules thirteen times, is sent to the cold pool to serve her punishment.

Shi Cimo darkly plots to ambush the heroine while she’s weak, hoping to turn her own luck around by taking advantage of the other woman’s misfortune. She sneaks into the cold pool at night.

But she happens upon the heroine bathing. The woman in the pool has shed her clothes, her languid beauty utterly captivating.

Shi Cimo freezes, staring at the heroine’s very impressive figure…

Shi “Straight” Cimo, who has “sworn off love”: What a show-off.

Years later, Shi Cimo is pinned down. The other woman slowly looks her up and down, then smiles. “Junior Sister Cimo, how come you’re putting on an even bigger act than me?”

Shi Cimo: …

Song Che is the Tianyan Sect leader’s direct disciple and youngest student, a heaven-blessed prodigy who has left everyone in the dust ever since she began cultivating.

She has had everything go her way since childhood, growing up adored by all. She has never had to suffer much, but she has repeatedly fallen flat when it comes to Shi Cimo, that loveless block of wood.

They met and grew close when they were young, and Song Che had already fallen for her. She never imagined her advances would be like winking at a blind person.

She folded paper cranes during class and dropped one onto Shi Cimo’s book, hoping to cheer her up. Shi Cimo turned around and reported her for violating the rules, earning her a hundred copies of the sect rules to transcribe.

She deliberately wandered over to the Enforcement Hall to see Shi Cimo, only to be beaten black and blue and sent home to lie in bed for two days.

Shi Cimo was like ice that could never melt. She treated everyone with the same cool indifference, except that she reserved a special kind of hatred for Song Che.

Song Che was also getting fed up with that unchanging, prickly attitude. The two became the Tianyan Sect’s most famous rivals.

That night at the cold pool, Song Che never expected Shi Cimo to be so ruthless. She had stabbed her in the back without a second thought.

Watching Shi Cimo walk away without a trace of reluctance,

Song Che: …

Song Che: I’m falling for her again.

Reader’s guide:

1. The one being pursued is only pretending to be an untouchable beauty. She has plenty of inner monologue and really can’t stand the pursuer at first.

2. The two fall in love while trying to kill each other. Their rivalry gets physical, with blades and all.

3. Very slow burn.

4. The pursuer is popular with everyone at first; later, the pursued one becomes the heartthrob.

5. No secondary couples, just the main couple and one-sided crushes on them.

6. Be warned: lots of characters die. The author loves angst.

7. There are male supporting characters, sympathetic male characters, and female antagonists. It’s a cultivation world with something for everyone: GL, BG, and BL are all welcome.

8. I don’t accept any form of writing advice. Feel free to bookmark or drop the story as you like.

Preview of the upcoming story, “Pretending to Be an Alpha to Win Over My Senior” ↓↓

A new exchange student arrives at the Federal Military Academy. She’s stunningly beautiful, and on her very first day she causes a sensation, winning over countless upperclassmen.

But then comes the shock: the new student is incredibly delicate.

She skips every mecha class, fails every combat course, gets a fever seven or eight times in summer, and can spend two days in bed over a tiny scrape. She’s less like an Alpha and more like an Omega.

The upperclassmen: A shame. She’s beautiful, at least. She’d make a lovely ornament.

Strangely, the new student is cold to everyone but can’t stop clinging to the school’s universally adored Alpha goddess. And the goddess happily lets her!

Everyone: Something’s off. Is the goddess actually gay?

Yu Yanxue is a Beta spy pretending to be an Alpha.

Her superiors tell her to infiltrate the Federation’s top military academy and steal classified information.

Yu Yanxue arrives at the Federation’s capital planet, brimming with excitement. She’s sure she’ll outwit everyone, stir up a storm, and become a legendary master spy.

On her first day at the academy, the organization sends her a dossier. She sees the beautiful woman in the photo…

Yu Yanxue: Organization, are you sure this is right? Are you sure?

Her request to be reassigned is rejected, so Yu Yanxue has no choice but to get to work winning over her senior.

Her senior has a wonderful personality and a sunny disposition, though she is a little distant.

Yu Yanxue isn’t worried. She’s a professional!

She’s “frail and sickly,” so she faints along her senior’s usual route;

She has “poor combat skills,” so she asks her senior to tutor her before the military academy tournament;

She’s “too beautiful to be fair,” so she dresses up every day and arranges to run into her senior…

Through her relentless efforts, she finally gets together with her senior.

And at last, she successfully infiltrates her senior’s classified database.

That night, Yu Yanxue climbs out of bed and opens it with trembling hands, only to find it filled with entries like

“She looked lovely when she pretended to faint today. Her perfume smelled nice too.”

“Her confession was so perfunctory. Zero points.”

“Her skirt would be better a little shorter.”

Yu Yanxue: ???

Theme: Take control of your own destiny.