After the Drama Queen Took Advantage of the Chaos

After sneaking down to the lower realm, Rong Ying gets carried away playing around and accidentally loses the Jade of Returning Heaven, which she needs to get back to the upper realm.

Without it, her only way back to the upper realm is the Stairway to Heaven that descends when cultivators ascend.

Tricking the Stairway to Heaven isn't easy. She has to enter into a marriage pact with that person, binding them together as spouses.

Because of her identity, Rong Ying is restricted in every way in the lower realm. Longing to go home, she seeks out Jiang Shi, reputed to be the person in the lower realm with the best chance of ascending.

As soon as she finds him, Rong Ying impatiently enters into a marriage pact with him.

Only after making the pact does she discover that Jiang Shi's dantian has been destroyed and his cultivation is completely gone. Even a lowly cultivator could easily knock him down.

Rong Ying, feeling she'd been swindled: "..."

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Before disaster struck, Jiang Shi was the undisputed pride of the heavens. No one of his generation could compare to him, and his future had seemed limitless.

In a single night, his cultivation was destroyed, his parents were killed by his own sword, and he went from being surrounded by admirers to being cursed by everyone.

He wants to leave home with his younger brother.

But the family head says, "If you want to split from the family, get married first."

Jiang Shi looks around. Everyone who used to flatter him avoids him like the plague.

Amid the ridicule filling the hall, a young woman he has never seen before steps through the crowd to his side and declares that she is willing to enter into a marriage pact with him.

Rong Ying is delicate, often gets hurt, and is quite a handful.

He has no complaints about working like an ox and a horse for her, but spending his life by her side is absolutely out of the question.

Out of gratitude, Jiang Shi puts up with it again and again, but in the end, he still shakes Rong Ying awake.

"As you can see, I have nothing now, and I'm a cripple. Marrying me will only bring you hardship, "

Rong Ying has a terrible temper when woken up. She slaps him away, thoroughly annoyed. "If you know I'm going to suffer, then hurry up and cultivate!"

Jiang Shi: "..."

Later, Rong Ying says who knows how many sweet things to him, coaxing him into enduring every hardship. But when the Stairway to Heaven descends, she climbs it in his place.

Only when she disappears does Jiang Shi understand that she agreed to their pact so she could deceive the Heavenly Dao and take his place.

...Then what about all those things she said?

Were they all lies too?

He finds a treasure that can take him to the upper realm and resolves to demand an explanation.

-

The upper realm.

Rong Ying yawns and kicks Jiang Shi, who is putting on her shoes.

"Didn't you say you were going to get revenge on me? When are you going to start?"

Jiang Shi's face is cold. "Tomorrow!"

Reader's Guide:

High-maintenance young lady × fallen overpowered cultivator

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Both devoted to each other, one-on-one

My take on cultivation, with lots of original worldbuilding

Theme: Sincerity matters most