[Male lead falls for her on his own + heroine grows over time + one-on-one romance + devoted couple]
Her master abandons her after taking her spiritual root, and her junior brother betrays and imprisons her. Su Mu chooses to flip the table and take them all down with her.
As her soul drifts, a remnant soul that followed her from the Demon Abyss sighs in her sea of consciousness. “With a temper like yours, you won't survive in the cultivation world.”
“How about I help you?”
When she lacks the strength, he helps her turn the Xuan Yi Sect upside down.
When the people she cherishes abandon and exploit her, he takes her across the River of Oblivion.
When her cultivation regresses, he accompanies her as she walks the path to immortality again.
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Is Su Mu the cherished first love of the entire cultivation world?
Yu Ze: “Out of the way! She needs to cultivate, not talk about romance!”
Su Mu takes the seat of sect leader at the Xuanqing Sect and gazes down at the three thousand disciples gathered below.
Yu Ze hands her his younger self as a disciple, declaring with absolute confidence, “Raise him for fun. Consider it repayment for what I owe you.”
Who could have known that the boy would grow more and more troublesome as he got older?
Until one day, he pins her against the hall doors, winding a strand of her hair around his fingers. “Master, do you truly not know how I feel about you?”
Su Mu looks at his familiar features and asks him again, “Why?”
He chuckles and presses her palm against his heart. “Before I arrived, my heart had already fallen for you.”
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When the System wakes up, it falls apart:
The heroine's top sect is gone! Su Mu has become the overlord of the cultivation world!
And where did she steal the male lead's story from?!
Wait!
Why have all the domineering male leads become her disciples???
Liked and pursued