A Powerful Figure's Fortune Gets Stolen? Their Cultivation Keeps Falling Until They Can't Take It Anymore

[Lighthearted power fantasy + ensemble cast + romance and kids + a self-destructive heroine]

Everyone loves to watch a genius fall.

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Before Lin Xiu died, all she had time to see was a sky full of golden lightning bolts crashing down on her.

Before she could even react, she was reborn.

Her original self was a renowned sword cultivator and genius, a Tribulation Transcendence expert at just twenty, and the young sect leader of a top sect...

But that was all in the past.

Three years ago, she let her junior brother succumb to demonic corruption and slaughter their sect. In a single day, the once-brilliant genius fell, becoming the black moonlight hated by everyone in the cultivation world. Now she is imprisoned in a forbidden zone.

She’d been dealt a winning hand and played it terribly. Lin Xiu has no intention of cleaning up the mess, so she promptly tries to get herself killed.

Unfortunately, the Seer of Heaven’s Mandate says she is the heroine of this world. As long as her fortune value isn’t depleted, she can’t die.

Fine. She’ll pretend to cultivate for a few days, then.

But while everyone else cultivates and levels up, Lin Xiu’s cultivation goes backward, dropping all the way from Nascent Soul to Qi Refining. It makes her even less interested in staying alive!!

What a screwed-up life.

Lin Xiu tries every which way to die and fails, then curses on the spot: “How is there not a single worthy opponent in this cultivation world?”

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A little toddler shows up in the forbidden zone, where no one has appeared for a hundred years. Lin Xiu thinks the child has come to kill her.

Instead, the toddler kneels and clings to her leg, eyes red-rimmed. “Mother! You abandoned your husband and child three years ago!”

Lin Xiu falls silent. Lin Xiu refuses. Lin Xiu bolts.

She’s still a maiden!

After having the kid wait on her for a few days, the lazy, gluttonous girl can’t help wondering: maybe raising a son for free wouldn’t be so bad?

A lovesick Demon Venerable climbs into her bed every night. After being kicked out countless times, he finally snaps in wounded fury:

“You’ve already taken in a son. Is one more me really too much?”