A timid yet gutsy, frail villainess × a cold, untouchable man at first, later a gloomy man torn between love and hate
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Yu Zhenlan cultivated the Heartless Path. Born with a Heavenly Dao Physique and a sword bone, he had single-handedly eradicated the Seven-Kill Demon Venerable and his demonic sect in his youth. One sword shook the Nine Provinces, earning him the reverence of countless immortals as the Bright Emblem Sword Lord.
The day Yu Zhenlan was invited to the Chaoxian Sect to discuss the Dao, Jiang Wangshu saw him from afar and immediately wanted him.
She wanted his Heavenly Dao Physique.
Born with incomplete meridians and unable to cultivate, Jiang Wangshu had endured the sect disciples' insults and mockery. She swore that if she ever set foot on the path of cultivation, she would make them pay dearly. Her confidence in getting revenge came from a pair of Gu worms and a manual she had obtained by chance.
The Gu worms were called Love Gu. There were two, a male and a female. Anyone infected by the male Gu would be consumed by uncontrollable desire for the person carrying the female Gu, unable to resist.
The manual was a depraved dual-cultivation technique that could steal another person's cultivation constitution after eighty-one days of dual cultivation with them.
After obtaining the two, Jiang Wangshu secretly began choosing her target. Then, on the day she saw Yu Zhenlan surrounded by admirers like the moon among the stars, she decided to plant the male Gu in him.
After much effort, Jiang Wangshu finally succeeded.
Even Yu Zhenlan, on the verge of ascension, couldn't resist the Love Gu's effects. Just as she had hoped, she spent eighty-one unforgettable days with him.
When the eighty-one days were up, she pushed the half-crippled Yu Zhenlan into a demon lair to silence him.
At last able to cultivate, she made the disciples who had bullied her pay, then enjoyed a life of adoration, surrounded by admirers.
Jiang Wangshu was so pleased with herself that she soon forgot all about Yu Zhenlan.
Until one night, she went to the plum grove for a moonlit drinking party she'd been invited to. When she arrived, she found the ground drenched in blood, and the man who had invited her lying there, his fate unknown.
Jiang Wangshu sensed trouble. As she turned to flee, she saw a face she knew all too well.
The face, usually so cool and aloof, had taken on a hint of seductive beauty beneath the demonic mark between his brows.
It was Yu Zhenlan. He hadn't died. He had fallen to the demonic path.
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The day Yu Zhenlan was invited to the Chaoxian Sect to discuss the Dao, he had no intention of discussing the Dao.
He had spent years in seclusion, seeking the key to ascension, and realized that he still had one tribulation to overcome in this world. His cultivation was not yet complete.
This tribulation was the tribulation of love.
That was why he had accepted the invitation to the Chaoxian Sect. First, to eradicate the remnant soul of the Seven-Kill Demon Venerable.
Second, to face his tribulation.
His tribulation of love was a mortal girl, frail beyond compare. Mortals lived for less than a hundred years. If so, he could spend those hundred years with her. Once her life was over, her tribulation complete and her body dead, he too would have passed his tribulation.
What he hadn't expected was that the girl would be bold enough to plant a Love Gu in him, steal his Heavenly Dao Physique, then cruelly push him into a demon lair to silence him.
Three months of tender promises all turned to dust. His Heartless Path shattered.
Yu Zhenlan hated her to the bone. He hated how cruelly she'd treated him, as if she had never felt a shred of affection for him.
Through the countless days and nights after returning from the demon lair, as Yu Zhenlan watched the girl beneath him sob and beg for mercy, all he wanted was for them to die together in that bed.
•PS: Both leads are romantically inexperienced, happy ending, the untouchable one falls from his pedestal
Blurb first drafted on June 17, 2026, revised on August 9, 2026
Theme: Wait patiently, and the clouds will part to reveal the moon.
