The Censored Cinderella

Li Mingmou's eyes can see strange phenomena: A beautiful, elegant rich girl constantly has black maggots crawling out of her body. A saintly mother revered by all cradles an infant who is gravely injured and near death, looking like something monstrous. The arrogant members of a theater troupe crawl on their knees like mollusks, leaving behind sticky trails of blood and flesh wherever they go. Behind every strange phenomenon lies a painful secret. She knows everyone's secrets. Then one day, a strange phenomenon appears around the campus heartthrob, too. *** *** Countless girls lust after the heartthrob, but he always fastens his collar to the very top button. They know nothing about what lies below his neck. Li Mingmou is different. She can see the naked heartthrob, down to his abs, the small of his back, and his cinnabar mole. She can see it all. The heartthrob's strange phenomenon is that he has lost all his clothes. What secret does it represent? To find out the truth, Li Mingmou begins secretly following him... Of course, everyone else thinks she's pursuing him. Heartthrob: This stalker girl is such a nuisance. [Upcoming Stories] "Buying a Smile with a Thousand Pieces of Gold" They say she was once the Sword Sect's holy maiden, destined to live a life above all others, and that her sister stole it all from her. She doesn't care. She loves her sister. If her sister likes it so much, she can give her the title. But if her sister doesn't love her, she wants her dead. They say Chu Lian was once her fiance, but since he and her sister have been secretly seeing each other, he is no longer worthy of her. She disagrees. Her sister cares more about this man than about her, and she's jealous of him. She has to steal him away from her sister. But once she gets him, she's dissatisfied: How dare a man with no virtue in love be loved by her sister without loving her in return? She wants to have him stuffed into a pig cage and drowned. After doing everything she wants, they ask if, now that everything has gone her way, she might find time to cultivate. She doesn't want to. None of these people cultivate better than she does, so who are they to hurry her along? She'll do whatever she likes. "Born a Demon" The little demon thinks she is a person. But everyone says she isn't. She's only a man's inner demon. The man is called Qi Lianfeng. He is a once-in-ten-thousand-years genius, the only man in the cultivation world with a chance of ascending. But because of a romantic tribulation in his youth, the woman he loved died for him, and he has never been able to let it go. The little demon is his final tribulation. If he can kill his inner demon, he can ascend. Qi Lianfeng only wants to stay with the little demon. He doesn't want to ascend anymore. Fahai is Qi Lianfeng's senior fellow disciple. To him, cultivation and attaining the Dao are the only things that matter in the world. Love clouds the mind and must be severed. Fahai can't stand to watch Qi Lianfeng sink into depravity, so he decides to kill the little demon himself. The little demon watches the two men and a crowd of others argue. Everyone thinks they have the right to decide her fate, and no one listens to her. She thinks these people are far too full of themselves. Why can't the one who ascends, whether human or demon, be her? "A New Kind of Woman" In her previous life, Zhang Song went down in history as the first woman in the Republic of China to be divorced. She obeyed her father at home, her husband after marriage, and her son in old age, because that's what everyone taught her. They said that was what made a good woman. But her husband thought her old-fashioned and despised her bound feet. After putting up with her for a few years, he divorced her. Before marrying her, her husband had a female confidante. Because of Zhang Song, he and his confidante never got their happy ending. Everyone said her husband and his confidante were made for each other, and that Zhang Song had barged into their relationship with her old-fashioned marriage. Her heart turned bitter. She had fought for her love and won this marriage. After they married, she discovered her husband could never love her, so she let him go. She was able to take love and let it go. Couldn't a woman like her be considered modern? As for her husband and his confidante, if they didn't fight for each other, how could they blame her? After being reborn, she returns to the time before she married her husband. She goes to meet his female confidante and discovers that the woman really is wonderful. She studied abroad, has her own ideals and career, and is different from ordinary women. The woman is wonderful, and she loves Zhang Song's husband. He loves her too. So Zhang Song decides to help them elope. But the elopement doesn't go quite the way she imagined... [Some notes] 1. This story was first posted in 2020. The author repeatedly abandoned it midway because it wasn't under contract and earned no money. So I went out to make a living. After several years of hard work, I came back still poor. Then I signed a contract and decided to give it another try. I think there's still hope for me! 2. This book has been rewritten, and is completely different from the pirated version. Aunties, don't go wandering around elsewhere. Bring some fruit and come visit me on Jinjiang. 3. Having learned my lesson from abandoning the story, I finished the first draft before choosing an auspicious day to start posting, revising as I go. My friend Su Huhu helped me pick these lucky dates: ① September 24, 2025: Replace the old chapters. (Once they're replaced, it'll be completely different!) ② Starting September 30, 2025: Update daily until completion, 3,000-5,000 words each day. ③ Starting October 5, 2025: Begin posting paid chapters, probably from around chapter ten, so hurry and read! About 10,000 words will be posted on the day it goes behind the paywall. ④ The story will be about 500,000-600,000 words and will be completed in January 2026. 4. The old title, "The Censored Cinderella," was chosen at random and has no special meaning. I came up with a new title, "Flowers Bloom Across the Wasteland," but everyone says it's unremarkable. I'll think about it again once the story is finished. 5. Character traits: Li Mingmou, a seemingly timid but actually brave, obscure, oddball shut-in girl x Luo Yisheng, a seemingly sharp but actually fragile, beautiful and gloomy heartthrob. Theme: Growing into a better person through trauma