Xia Qingdai received a lifelike model of an ancient castle.
Inside, a group of tiny figures inhabited the model. Amidst a heavy snowfall, one figure attempted to burn an even smaller figure.
Xia Qingdai reached out and lifted the figure from the flames...
In the winter of the 18th century, a blizzard ravaged the castle.
Owen, newly heir to the family castle, was enjoying a rare meal when he was disturbed by a group clamoring to burn a witch. There was no witch!
Before he could rebuke them, he was shocked to see a hand descend from the sky!
— A farming novel, a journey through time and space, both ancient and modern.
Xiao Jin transmigrated into a melodramatic angst-filled novel as a cannon fodder side character.
A strange woman who was disabled, disguised herself as a man, and obsessed with the male lead.
None of that mattered though, because she wouldn’t survive more than three chapters.
The cannon fodder was the third prince of the current dynasty—an accomplished war hero with a fearsome reputation that spanned the empire. Enemy armies trembled at the sound of his name. He was known as the “Ghost Rakshasa.”
Yet this god of war was gravely injured and crippled, coughing up blood after taking just a few steps.
He also developed tuberculosis and hovered on the edge of death.
There was only one reason for this: it was an angst novel. The male lead was the Crown Prince, and the female lead was a fallen princess from a ruined nation.
The cannon fodder’s only role was to destroy the heroine’s country, then die beautifully.
At this moment, Xiao Jin stared at her ruined legs and the pool of blood she had just coughed up. Her mental state completely collapsed.
She kindly told the butler to prepare a coffin—she’d lie down soon.
Then the mechanical voice of a system rang out.
“Warning! Host’s life has only 48 hours remaining. Please complete the first task as soon as possible to extend your lifespan.”
“Task 1: Interrupt the wedding — forcibly marry the heroine who is about to wed the second male lead.”
“Friendly reminder: Only after completing all tasks and getting killed by the heroine, Chu Shao, will your life countdown stop and you can return to your original world.”
Xiao Jin was silent.
In her mind, she pictured a terminally ill cancer patient in a wheelchair dramatically crashing the heroine’s wedding.
“…”
Xiao Jin: “Can I choose death instead?”
System: “Nope, Host.”
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After many twists and turns, Xiao Jin finally completed all the tasks.
That day, the sky was vast and clear, autumn geese flew south.
Chu Shao stepped over the corpses of cannon fodder and returned to her homeland, ascending the throne in glory.
The whole empire bowed before her.
Xiao Jin, in prison robes, sat in a wheelchair, escorted by imperial guards, looking up at the new empress.
She was content.
Everything was ready—now she just needed Chu Shao to kill her.
Empress Chu Shao, with unparalleled beauty, stood with twelve ceremonial tassels hanging from her crown. Sword in hand, she descended the steps and gazed gently at Xiao Jin.
Just when Xiao Jin thought she was about to be stabbed through the heart, Chu Shao raised her sword and slit the throat of the imperial guard beside her.
The rest of the guards turned pale and fell to their knees.
Chu Shao, hands dripping with blood, crouched in front of Xiao Jin. As though gazing up at a deity, she stared at her for a long time.
She placed the bloodied sword aside and said in a trembling voice:
“Don’t leave me.”
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[IMPORTANT WARNINGS!!]
1. While the tone of the story is marked as lighthearted, some parts are definitely not.
2. Chapters 138–140 and 77–80 involve side couples and previous-generation characters. They’re melodramatic, not pure (non-virgin), and written to tie together the story’s logic—please read the author’s notes for context before purchasing.
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How to Enjoy This Story:
1. This is a cathartic fantasy story set in an alternate world—historical accuracy is not the goal.
2. The female lead, Chu Shao, is a yandere and mentally unstable. The system doesn’t do much—Xiao Jin mostly survives by being awesome.
3. The ending has a twist, but it’s a happy one. Timeline explanations are in the author’s note for Chapter 175.
Tags: Strong leads | Transmigration | Gender disguise | Cathartic read | Light tone
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Xiao Jin
Chu Shao
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One-sentence summary: Don’t leave me.
Theme: Though physically broken, the will remains unyielding. Charge forward with courage.
[Dual Female Leads] + [Angst] + [Happy Ending]
After transmigrating into a novel, Jin Yao discovers she has become the pitiful merman second female lead, despised by the protagonists. She gets her engagement broken off by the male lead, who then tears off her fish scales to make a dress as a gift to the female lead—just to make her smile.
So, Jin Yao immediately chooses to lie low and grow stronger, clinging tightly to the most powerful character in the entire book: a cold, blindfolded beauty!
This blindfolded cold beauty treats her very well—gives her food, a place to sleep, and even protects her from being hunted by the protagonists.
But just as she’s starting to feel secure in this shelter, the blindfolded beauty lifts her chin and says—
"The merman race is born seductive. Would you be willing to form a cultivation bond with me?”
Turns out, the cold blindfolded beauty has fallen for her too!!!
Dragons and snakes rise in the vast lake, ghosts and gods dance in black and yellow, I wield a sword to ask for immortality, but I am just an ordinary person in the vast ocean.
[Mortal flow + no system + slow to warm up + decisive to kill]
The village was massacred and the young man accidentally embarked on the path to immortality.
The world of cultivating immortals is not as beautiful as he imagined. Evil people scheme, intrigue and kill each other for the resources of cultivating immortals.
Where is the final pure land for practitioners?
A young man wanders under the immortal gate, writing an unknown story.
One of the ten great martial emperors, the peerless Gu Feiyang died in the Tiandang Mountains. Fifteen years later, he was reincarnated as Li Yunxiao, the son of Tianshui State, and started a journey against the will of heaven to compete with countless geniuses of the time. The ninth level of martial arts, the ten-sided divine realm, the whole world has gone berserk since then! [Li Yunxiao]
She’s bound to a poison arts system—if she wants to keep living, she has to keep poisoning people to exchange for life force.
Xu Lianqiao: “What am I supposed to do, living every day with the system constantly urging me to kill?”
Everything had been going smoothly—until she ran into a young divine doctor fresh out of Butterfly Valley: Feng Yuchen.
After failing for the 108th time, Xu Lianqiao glared angrily: “Spare me just once so I can poison someone, please?”
Feng Yuchen smiled gently, her eyes curved like a crescent moon, as she applied a silver needle: “No. I cure all illnesses, and I’ll treat you just the same.”
“Don’t believe me? Try for a lifetime.”
Xu Lianqiao: …
I harm people, you save people. Together we cancel each other out. Yin and yang in harmony, opposites attract, and Heaven rewards hard work.
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Tags:
Time travel · Enemies to lovers · System · Sweet romance · Lighthearted
Main Characters' POV:
Xu Lianqiao ~ Feng Yuchen
Side interaction: Xu Ling’er ~ Former Senior Sister
One-line Summary:
I poison people, she saves them—positive plus negative equals balance.
Theme/Message:
Finding harmony between extremes; good and evil, yin and yang, can complement each other.
An ordinary young man unexpectedly acquires a portable, constantly upgrading castle, and from there, he travels back and forth between two worlds, embarking on a magnificent adventure. Ultimately, he not only becomes the overlord of the other world, but also an object of admiration in his former world.
After creating a system with the background of the anime world, he broke the dimensional wall and successfully traveled to the anime world of swords and magic. The place where he landed was actually Berk Island in How to Train Your Dragon, and he directly took over Hiccup's body.
Now that you have successfully traveled through time, you must use the empire strategy system you created to conquer the fairy tale world!
Chen Qingzhou's soul traveled through the Ming Dynasty and became a Jinyiwei. Before he could get used to his new identity, he discovered that demons were rampant and evil spirits were everywhere!
Awaken the martial arts deduction system in times of crisis, and you can continuously deduce and improve your martial arts by investing your lifespan!
Chen Qingzhou only has less than a hundred years to live, and he cannot afford to spend it. Fortunately, killing demons can plunder their lifespans. Fighting to support the war is the only option to survive!
From [Ten Swords of Battle Formation] to [Earthly Evil Sword Technique], from [Changquan] to [Tiangang Fist Technique], from [Ordinary Internal Skill] to [Endless Divine Emperor Treasure Technique]...
From then on, the demons under the Embroidered Spring Knife, who regarded humans as livestock and blood food, experienced endless fear they had never experienced before!