My Cold Sword Master Is My Ex-Husband

[Greedy, lustful, overworked office-worker heroine with a snarky streak x aloof, proud hero before losing his memory, spirited young man afterward]

Female lead is not a virgin; male lead is.

Also known as The Old Man Who Fell From the Sky Ruined Her Dream of Dating a Younger High School Boy and My Cold Ex-Husband Turned Into Warm Money

After transmigrating, Ye Zhen intended to farm and then spend the rest of her life alone. Instead, she fished a handsome young man out of the river. She knew you shouldn't pick up strange men by the roadside, but she couldn't help it. She was a lovestruck lech, and getting to sleep with him was a bargain.

Just as expected, after she and the amnesiac young man had spent two peaceful years living as a farming couple, a huge crowd came barging into her home.

Only then did she learn that her husband was a genius sword cultivator known to everyone in the cultivation world, a lofty flower no one could reach, and the only hope of breaking through the boundary between worlds and ascending to immortality.

And she was the only stain on this Sword Venerable's reputation.

Ye Zhen has two choices.

The first is to leave with her pride intact, earning everyone's respect. She can work hard to enter the cultivation world, then endure hundreds of chapters of hardship before finally reaching the ending where her ex-husband regrets everything and comes crawling back.

The second is to swallow her resentment, accept most of her ex-husband's fortune, and become the materialistic woman who loves money, condemned by all and despised by everyone.

Ye Zhen lives up to her name. She is as tough as steel.

But she can't help giving in to the lure of money, settling down amid mountains of wealth and planning to live out the rest of her life in peace.

Besides, who could accept their handsome, youthful, nineteen-year-old husband suddenly turning into a thousand-year-old geezer?

And so, the spotless Sword Venerable of Qingheng Sect returned.

The day after Ye Zhen went back to her thatched hut to retire, she fished another youthful new boyfriend out of the river.

The male lead's perspective:

After recovering his memories, Shen Yubai could never accept the sight of himself, a man who had cultivated the emotionless path for a thousand years, kneeling at a woman's skirt and craving her.

He despised such base behavior, and naturally despised her for causing it. Yet his body could not stop wanting to get closer to her, closer still.

Even his bonded sword, Moonfall, which he rarely drew, had been lured away by her calling it Wangcai. It had debased itself willingly and happily, chopping meat and vegetables.

When Ye Zhen proposed a divorce, Shen Yubai did not try to stop her. He could not bring himself to do what he had done in his memories and beg her, clinging to her waist and crying.

Until, in the middle of the night, he woke from a dream and followed his memories back to the home they had shared.

The familiar courtyard. The peach tree he had planted himself was covered in blossoms. A man wearing his old clothes sat beside her and spoke in a provocative, affected voice.

"It's our first time meeting, so I should call you big brother."

He watched Ye Zhen affectionately tug at the crookedly embroidered hair ribbon in the man's hair. It was the birthday gift Shen Yubai had once begged her for.

So he had been the only one trapped in those two years.

Content warnings:

1. The heroine is very much an overworked office worker who wants to lie flat. The hero is a sword cultivator who dropped out of the emotionless path.

2. The hero and the male supporting character are in a sort of stasis. Both are virgins, in body and heart. The heroine has a romance with the male supporting character later on. He is a green-tea idiot, genuinely younger than her, and a nonhuman snake demon. Please proceed with caution. She ends up with the hero in the end.

3. The heroine will have her own career arc and become richer and stronger, but the early main plot is about the couple's romance. In the middle and later parts, the hero disguises himself as a man and has an emotional breakdown for love.

4. Not sure if this counts as a spoiler, but there will be a daughter-rearing arc later, so please be warned. (Scratches head.) The daughter is the heroine's biological child. Later, the hero goes mad and secretly has her, hoping to use his child to gain status. (Male pregnancy through cultivation techniques.) The daughter will naturally call the second male lead her little dad. There will absolutely be no daughter-assisted matchmaking between the male and female leads!

Heroine: Hello, I don't date men who have been married before.

Hero: But I was married to you!

Theme: Holding on to one's convictions when facing adversity