I Opened an Inn in the Cultivation World

Cultivation is about cultivating the heart, cultivating the body, and cultivating the true Great Dao.

For Boss Xiao, the Great Dao boils down to two things: making money and enjoying life.

Open an inn, savor delicious food, and watch the many lives of the mortal world unfold.

There are three thousand Great Daos. Follow your heart, and you can roam freely between heaven and earth, without regrets in this life.

But...

Unfortunately, it seems he picked up the wrong script.

Xiao Minglou: Why do all my senior and junior brothers want to stab me in the back? What the heck is this melodramatic tale of an unforgettable life in the immortal sect?! I quit!

The waiter gong: To be honest, I want to as well... I mean, I want to “stab you” in a different sense.

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Heaven gave Xiao Minglou the setup of a gorgeous, tragic hero and a plot full of physical and emotional torment, melodramatic revenge, and angst. But somehow, he managed to turn the whole story into causing trouble, causing trouble, and more causing trouble.

The waiter, one of the people caught up in all this “trouble,” says: No worries, do whatever you want. I’ve already sold myself to you anyway.

A few notes:

1. The bottom is genuinely thick-skinned and a total heartthrob; the top is truly possessive and spoils him without question.

2. There’s basically no angst, and it might be a little ridiculous.

3. Slow burn, slow burn, slow burn. Important things bear repeating three times!

4. The cultivation levels in this novel are: Qi Refining - Foundation Establishment - Mystic Vein - Golden Core - Nascent Soul - Void Refining - Return to Origin - Great Ascension - Tribulation Transcendence

Blurb:

In the Great Yu Kingdom, boy-girl twins are considered auspicious, while same-sex twins are seen as an aberration.

Consort Mian struggled through ten months of pregnancy, evading all sorts of palace intrigue and plots against her. At long last, after nearly dying in childbirth, she looked into the swaddling clothes...

Unfortunately, they were a pair of twins, and both were boys.

“Your Highness, what are we going to do?” her trusted maid asked anxiously.

Consort Mian, with barely half her life left in her, looked from one baby to the other. At last, she summoned her remaining strength and pointed to one of them.

“From this day on, he... she is a girl!”

So the infant Xiao Qi was declared a girl by his mother, who insisted that a phoenix was a phoenix, and from then on he became an auspicious child of the Great Yu Kingdom, the emperor’s most beloved “daughter.”

After struggling to hide his sex until the age of eighteen, he found the old emperor rubbing his hands together, ready to find his beloved daughter a husband.

Xiao Qi: “...”

No way. He couldn’t pick some obviously clever and capable young man. That sort would see through his disguise in no time!

He had to find a brainless, spoiled rich boy, preferably one who was unloved at home, frail and sickly, and likely to drop dead any moment. Someone who looked easy to ride... easy to bully.

That way, he’d soon be a widow, and no one would discover his secret!

But...

After finally finding someone like that, it turned out he was all shabby on the outside and precious within. Not only did he see through Xiao Qi’s disguise, he also mounted Xiao Qi!

Consort Yuan Zhao restrained the flailing Xiao Qi with ease, coughing “weakly” as he smiled. “Does Your Highness find this humble servant too weak to serve you properly? It seems I’ll have to put in a little more effort.”

Xiao Qi wept bitterly. “Stop trying so hard! You’ve got way too much energy. Even a horse has less than you!”

A tsundere bottom versus a cunning top, a pair of bickering lovers you won’t want to miss~

Theme: My fate is mine to shape, not Heaven’s. Better yourself and change your destiny.