That's it, I've lost all interest in this story. After looking at the outline, I don't think I can write it anymore... So I'm putting it on hold for now.
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I was born into a cultivation family. My parents were powerful and doted on me.
At fifteen, I joined the Misty Sword Sect, where my master was a sword immortal who had never known defeat.
At twenty, I fell for a handsome young man with phoenix eyes. His name was Dong Linjiang.
He was incredibly powerful, and he loved me very much.
I thought I'd live happily ever after.
Until I was twenty-three, when I saw my future in the Heavenly Secrets Mirror.
Dong Linjiang didn't love me.
He would secretly wipe out my family, poison my master, and kill my friends. Even my senior brothers and sisters, and my junior brothers and sisters, would all die by his hand, and my sect would be destroyed as a result.
He would get involved with other women, and even run me through with his sword to please one of them.
Then, consumed by boundless hatred, I was reborn in the past.
I would reclaim everything I'd lost and take revenge on Dong Linjiang.
I would get everything I wanted and do everything I wished, and no one would ever be able to displease me.
I would become an unrivaled prodigy, a hundred or a thousand times stronger than Dong Linjiang.
I would become the strongest under heaven, so powerful that even my master, the invincible sword immortal, would bow before me.
To pave the way for a smooth next life with the hardships of this one.
So this was my fate?
How ridiculous!
Furious, I drew my sword and smashed the Heavenly Secrets Mirror to pieces.
Dong Linjiang was no match for me. How could he have toyed with me so completely?
I was an unparalleled prodigy, without equal in the past or future. Why should I have to endure endless hardships before I could find an easy path?
My future self would have everything go her way. Why couldn't I do the same in this life?
I live in the present. I don't care what happens in another life. In this one, I will shine like the moon high in the night sky, never to fall!
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Warnings before reading:
1. A wish-fulfillment story, told in third person. No groveling ex arc.
2. The heroine is proud and doesn't suffer. The female side character has no romantic entanglement with Dong Linjiang, and she has her reasons.
3. Check out my wish-fulfillment story coming soon: The Ancient Girl I Helped Out of Poverty Ascended the Throne [Multiverse Trading]
Theme: Always look ahead