After the Hehuan Saint Son Broke My Path of Emotionlessness

The entire Tianjian Sect knew that Senior Sister Pei Qing was the most talented cultivator of the ruthless sword path of her generation. With a pure sword heart and a single-minded devotion to the Dao, she was like the bright moon hanging high above: serene, aloof, and upright. But even the moon had its private affections. Rumor had it that Senior Sister Pei Qing favored her junior brother, Xie Zhiyi, above all others. Pei Qing herself confirmed it was true. First, Xie Zhiyi was an orphan she had personally taken in. Second, she had raised him herself. He resembled her in every way: clean, simple, pure, and steadfast in the sword path. There was just one thing: Xie Zhiyi was too fond of acting spoiled. Pei Qing looked down at the person in her arms. The tall, slender young man knelt beside her, rubbing his head against the hollow of her neck. His voice was full of clinging affection: “I love you so much, Senior Sister. I want to be with you forever.” Pei Qing sighed, and in the end, her heart softened. She went to the forbidden grounds and endured eighty-one sword punishments. Her meridians were shattered, and all her cultivation was lost. From that day on, the ruthless Dao became the affectionate Dao. Before their Dao-Unity Ceremony, Pei Qing got separated from her teammates during a mission and accidentally stumbled into the Holy Son's Palace of the Hehuan Sect. The Hehuan Sect was full of depraved cultivators who treated affection as a plaything. The Holy Son in particular had been born without a heart and possessed countless cultivation furnaces. “Congratulations, Your Highness. You've successfully captured your target. Once you devour her, your cultivation will surely rise to another level.” A servant's voice rang through the great hall. “But, Your Highness, are you really going to join your Dao with hers?” “Of course not.” Someone gave a soft scoff. “That woman Pei Qing is stiff and boring. If it weren't for her spiritual bones, I wouldn't give someone like her a second glance.” The man lounged against a beauty couch, his bare feet resting on the carpet. Silver bells adorned his slender, pale ankles, and his disheveled clothes jingled with dangling chains. His long, pale fingers gripped a fan rib, waving it back and forth. Amid his wanton abandon was a face identical to that of her junior brother, Xie Zhiyi. As the Hehuan Sect's Holy Son, Xie Zhiyi had known from birth that affection was meant to be used. But why, on the day his lies were exposed, did he feel only panic when he met his senior sister's calm gaze? Later, word spread that the beautiful Holy Son of the Hehuan Sect had gone mad. With a knife in hand, he slowly peeled away the skin exposed on his body, then knelt, covered in blood, at the foot of Tianjian Sect's mountain. He wailed like a ghost: “Senior Sister, I'm not dirty. Please don't leave me.” Cool-headed, upright sword cultivator Senior Sister × beautiful, black-hearted Hehuan Sect junior brother The groveling chase / A saint's selfish love vs. a scoundrel's true devotion Reading notes: One-on-one, both leads' first time, ensemble cast The following is a blurb for my upcoming story. Please add it to your collection! 《The Lazy Girl Turns Out to Be a World-Destroying Demon》 “Rescuing the Sinister Demon Snake is a story about the male lead, a demon lord, concealing his identity and infiltrating a sword sect to cause trouble. He meets the heroine, a junior sister with a sunny disposition, and is gradually moved and redeemed by her, eventually succeeding in preventing him from destroying the world.” The System's mechanical voice spoke without a trace of emotion. “So I transmigrated into the demon lord from the book, the sinister big snake who ends up destroying the world?” Ruan Tao asked. The System replied, “Yes.” Ruan Tao raised her snake tail and glanced down at it, then raised an eyebrow and demanded, “Then where's the male lead's equipment? Did you secretly pocket both of them?” “!!!???” The System spat out a string of garbled text, as if swearing. Finally, it couldn't hold back and completely lost it: “You're a girl! Don't you have any shame?” Ruan Tao ignored it. She curled herself into a snake pancake and leisurely tucked her head inside. “You're supposed to go to the sword sect and follow the plot!” the System fumed. “I'm not going.” Ruan Tao, who had been a lazybones in her past life, closed her eyes and went to sleep. Why the hell would the big bad demon who was going to destroy the world do any quests? Elsewhere, on the sword sect's recruitment peak, a gloomy figure had already been waiting there for almost half a month. “What's with this Demon Lord? Why hasn't she shown up yet?” Lin Zhimo's dark eyes were full of impatience, and his whole presence was sharp and irritable. “Maybe...” the System ventured, trembling. “The heroine in the original story is a little ray of sunshine. How about... you smile?” A flash of swordlight. The blade slid halfway out of its sheath. The irritable youth reined in his temper, put on a cold expression, and managed to turn his downturned mouth a little less frowny. “The book also says...” The System's voice grew quieter and quieter. “When the male and female leads first meet, the heroine is wearing a bright, eye-catching yellow dress...” Boom! The sword was drawn, reducing the small mountain in front of him to dust. Later... Ruan Tao, now equipped with: A fully automated premium snake nest (on Lin Zhimo's head) A fully automated premium snake climbing frame (Lin Zhimo's body) A fully automated premium feeding machine, a fully automated premium scale-scrubber, and a fully automated premium babysitter (Lin Zhimo himself) Lazily draped herself over the young sword cultivator's wrist, then slithered up his abs to his shoulder, and finally nestled into the hollow of his pale, bony collarbone. The snake's head rubbed against his warm skin. Ruan Tao thought: Maybe following the plot and being a demon snake isn't so bad after all. A swaggering, lazy girl turned demon snake × a gloomy youth forced to pose as a sweet girl Upcoming story 2 A bittersweet school-days unrequited-love story: 《Ordinary Crush》 I'll never tell you what I was like before I became someone as dazzling as you. Ordinary girl × dazzling boy A recommendation from a friend: Beichen Doesn't Eat Cilantro's xianxia master-disciple story 《Master, Say Something!》, cheerful and sunny girl → forced love → cool, aloof, abstinent male master Theme: Love and hope