After Cultivating the Path of Ruthlessness, All My Exes Regretted It

Blurb One:

Everyone in the cultivation world knows that Minghuang, the immortal maiden of Wuwang Sect, is infatuated with her senior brother, Su Chen. But Su Chen only has eyes for his childhood sweetheart, the immortal maiden Lu Yuan. Even when Minghuang gives up her cultivation for him and has her sword bones removed, he remains unmoved.

It isn't until she falls into darkness for his sake and plunges into the Ninefold Infernal Flames that he suddenly realizes the red robes have long since become impossible to part with.

For the next thousand years, he traverses the Sea of Sin and searches across the Nine Provinces. At last, he sees those red robes again on an immortal island.

Surrounded by beauties and laughter, she raises a cup of fine wine and toasts him from afar. "Senior Brother Su Chen, long time no see."

She is the only carefree immortal in the world, living among mortals yet untouched by worldly concerns.

Blurb Two:

As the last phoenix in the world, Minghuang must experience the seven emotions and six desires, and endure the eight sufferings of mortal life, if she hopes to survive the tribulation of the Heavenly Dao, successfully undergo nirvana, and be reborn.

So she goes to the lower realms. She has been the favored consort who brought an emperor's kingdom to ruin, a fox pet to the ruler of the demon realm, a confidante to the Demon Emperor... and an infatuated junior sister to a prodigy of the immortal sects.

She lived for them, died for them, and gave them everything. With her heart devoted to them, she finally earned a chance at life. Infernal flames consumed her, and she was reborn through nirvana, transcending the Great Dao.

Who could have guessed that after a thousand carefree years, her exes would all come looking to get back together?

Minghuang: "Don't be like that. I'm cultivating the Path of Ruthlessness."

※ Su Chen is not the male lead. For now, there is no male lead. Each arc is a different relationship.

※ The blurb describes the "infatuated junior sister" arc. The story itself begins with the "mortal emperor" arc.

※ They're all million-year-old monsters. Don't ask whether she's a virgin. The heroine has slept with every one of her exes, and she didn't spend her thousand carefree years sitting around, either.

※ I don't like writing scumbags, so every male supporting character has at least some decency. This is not your usual groveling-and-winning-her-back story.

※ For a sense of the style, see my other male-lead romance novel, The Emperor Reborn, in my author profile.

--- Upcoming Novel ---

She's Frail and Delicate

Wei Shao is reborn as a frail, sickly princess.

When she wakes, she meets a young gentleman. Learning that she has lost her memory, he smiles gently. "A-Shao, don't you remember? I'm your fiance."

Her fiance is handsome and kind. He gives her medicine, picks flowers for her, and writes her poems. His reputation for devotion is known far and wide.

Wei Shao is deeply moved, and falls for him.

People say her fiance has ulterior motives.

She says they're jealous.

People say her fiance is eliminating his rivals.

She says he didn't mean to. Those people were simply wicked.

Her fiance gets rid of her father and brothers, who are fighting for power.

She cries delicately. What can she do? She... loves him.

Until there are no brothers left to inherit the throne, and her fiance helps Wei Shao ascend it. Dressed in imperial robes, Wei Shao, now a puppet ruler, smiles at him and asks, "My dear Chu, do I look beautiful?"

Her fiance steps forward, pleased, ready to admire his handiwork. But Wei Shao plunges a knife into his abdomen.

He watches helplessly as the foolish princess he thought he knew idly toys with the bloodstained dagger and looks at him with gratitude. "Thank you for giving me such beautiful clothes. I'll treasure them."

Name: Wei Shao.

Identity: Former princess, now empress.

Identity in her previous life: Emperor of a matriarchal world.

Thoughts on ascending the throne: A job is a job, wherever you get hired.

※ A calm, clever, and theatrical heroine who keeps the situation under control. Female lead is not a virgin.

※ The world after her rebirth is an ordinary ancient setting, not a matriarchal one.

Theme: Choose the right path in life, then stay true to yourself.