Drawn Sword

#Plot-Driven# The early chapters are mostly setup. If you want more interaction between the leads, feel free to start at Chapter 20! (Please add it to your library~)

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[Unhinged, Theatrical, Sharp-Tongued, Face-Con, Half-Demon Heroine × Taciturn, Gentle, Frail Assassin Hero]

Gui Zhou is haunted by guilt.

Two years ago, he slaughtered a city of demons, but let one little human girl escape.

Two years later, Gui Zhou found a badly injured young woman at the foot of a mountain, frail and pitiful.

By a twist of fate, he became her master.

Qiu Shangchen wants revenge.

She would never forget that face, a face so beautiful she could never forget it for the rest of her life.

Yet that same beautiful face destroyed everything she had, leaving her family in ruins.

After being rescued, Qiu Shangchen endured cruel training and witnessed countless bloody scenes. At last, she became strong enough that no one could hurt her.

But she couldn't bring herself to strike.

Her master was gentle and cared for her in every way, passing on everything he had learned throughout his life.

Later, Qiu Shangchen learned the truth and uncovered a secret, one that made her feel pity for her enemy.

But the truth was harsh and cruel. Unwilling to believe it, she deceived herself and hurt him through torment. Both of them became trapped in the pain of their contradictions.

Because their circumstances were so alike, she could see her own reflection in his history of lies, and a kind of mutual understanding gradually grew between them.

"Gui Zhou, the debt between us can only end with one of us dead."

A few personal worldbuilding details:

1. Demons take fifty years to grow from birth to adulthood. They awaken their demonic power in their twenties and begin cultivation then; their intelligence is similar to that of humans in their twenties.

2. The heroine is a half-demon. She can cultivate demonic power as well as immortal arts. She is the only half-demon in this world.

3. Cultivation ranks are Qi Condensation, Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul, Spirit Transformation, Infant Metamorphosis, and Ascendant.

4. The correct pronunciations of a few characters' names are listed in the author's notes.

Content warnings:

This is a gender-bender story, with no role reversal. Please don't read if that's not your thing! The heroine has normal female anatomy. Both leads are sexually inexperienced!

There are mild scenes of male suffering, confinement, and coercion. The story is split evenly between plot and romance: plot in the early chapters, romance later.

The hero is genuinely frail due to illness, but he isn't delicate.

There are three side couples: two gender-bender couples and one BL couple. They don't get much page time.

It's an ensemble cast, and the modern-day extra features a non-blood-related pseudo-incest pairing. Overall, there's a little angst.

I'm just an ordinary emotional disaster of an author~ This is my first novel, just practicing my skills~

Not a template story, just my personal preferences.

Coming soon~

Three Lifetimes Bound to My Nemesis (Full manuscript in progress~)

Ye Chenqing has a nemesis.

He first met him at the Hundred Flowers Banquet thirteen years ago. That boy was arrogant, unreasonable, and had no manners, yet Ye Chenqing remembered him for thirteen years.

Thirteen years later, Ye Chenqing was ordered to go to Quancheng and bring him home, but he refused to return.

Unable to let him go, Ye Chenqing used every means at his disposal to bring him back to the capital.

Only after returning to the capital did he learn that he and the other man were never meant to be together in this life. Unable to accept it, he decided to fight fate.

Later, Ye Chenqing lost, and lost completely.

He lost half a lifetime of the Ye family's plans, and he lost Yuchi Nanyang.

Yuchi Nanyang was forcibly brought back to the capital. He hated this annoying man, yet somehow found him familiar.

As they spent each day together, he fell in love with him.

But Ye Chenqing shattered that beautiful dream, and in the end, took his own life in a cold, dark room.

Yuchi Nanyang stared at the bloodied object in his hand and murmured, "You used the thing I gave you to kill yourself. Was it to hurt me?"

"Then you got your wish."

Whenever Jiu Fang Huanling was plagued by nightmares, he would see someone standing with their back to him.

The figure was so familiar, yet he could never remember who it was.

Until one day, he encountered a great demon. The demon meant to kill him, but ended up saving him.

As his confusion grew, the person in his dream merged with the one before his eyes. Jiu Fang Huanling's heart trembled, and he lowered his sword.

In Chi Ning's memories, he had someone he loved, but he had never known what that person looked like.

One day, he casually rescued someone, and the beloved from his memories finally had a face.

Chi Ning pursued him wholeheartedly, only to have a sword pointed at him in return.

"There's something that's troubled me for three lifetimes. Can you answer me?"

"This sin was already sown the first time we met."

But Jiu Fang Huanling didn't know which first meeting that meant.

Theme: Every cause has its consequence.