[Alternate universe, alternate universe, alternate universe]
Pei Xian's perspective:
Her birth parents abandoned her overseas when she was little. From an early age, she understood that she could only survive by relying on herself.
So she learned all kinds of skills from the mercenaries who took her in, and became the little tyrant of their neighborhood.
She thought her future would be just like that: dark and hopeless.
Then Xiao Chi came along.
When she was fifteen, Xiao Chi, who was two years older, brought her back to China. Xiao Chi found her a school and gave her a place to live in the Xiao household, so she could go to school like a normal person.
Those were extraordinarily peaceful days. Many people could take such a life for granted, but Pei Xian had never even dared to imagine it.
She spent eight years with Xiao Chi. In that time, she became Xiao Chi's most loyal subordinate, and the one outsiders were most afraid to provoke. Xiao Chi, meanwhile, cared for her in every way, so much that it seemed excessive. Before long, Pei Xian's feelings for Xiao Chi began to change, leading her to entertain a daring possibility.
Could the person seated high above the clouds really favor someone like her, born in the mud?
On her twenty-third birthday, she used the occasion to secretly prepare a grand confession.
That night, the moon shone especially brightly, as if it, too, was wishing her luck.
But she had guessed wrong. There was no tenderness between them at all. It had all been in her imagination.
So the next day, she was sent overseas, as if she were a returned purchase.
Xiao Chi's perspective:
Xiao Chi was an elite employee at the transmigration-into-a-book rescue bureau. She had saved countless little worlds, so when she received the assignment involving the book Pei Xian was in, she thought it would be easy.
What she didn't know was that Pei Xian, the book's most powerful villain, had long since been secretly listed by the bureau as an exceptionally dangerous individual.
After entering the new world, she conscientiously set about saving Pei Xian, looking after her meals and living arrangements, her studies, and her plans for the future...
But could someone explain why Pei Xian was confessing to her? No one told her this world was a girls' love novel!
In a panic, she sent Pei Xian overseas.
Half a year later, Pei Xian, travel-worn and freshly back in the country without permission, was casually knocking on the door outside her room.
"Miss, guess who's come back to see you."
[Both are each other's first and only partners, devoted to one another in body and heart]
[Maximum combat ability / aloof but loves to act cute / dark and twisted but puppy-like (Pei Xian) x pretends to be proper but is really a workaholic / stubbornly refuses to admit it / has fallen for her but won't say so (Xiao Chi)]
[Haven't figured out content warnings yet, will add them later ovo]
[Blurb version dated August 10, 2025 / revised September 21, 2026]
Theme: Seeking oneself
