After the White Moonlight Got a Villainous Script

Pre-release: The Heavenly Saintess Can't Possibly Be a Hopeless Romantic. Please add it to your reading list.

When Yun Man woke up, she found that she had gone from the beloved junior sister of her sect to someone who existed solely to suffer

Her adoptive older sister, who had grown up with her, dug out her Heavenly Spiritual Root in tears. "The sect leader is your biological father. Even if you become a cripple, you'll live without a care in the world. Your sister needs this spiritual root more."

Her childhood friend and fiance pierced her dantian with his sword, his expression cold. "I found her... The white-robed fairy who stunned me at first sight, back when I was sealed and fell into a deep sleep."

The junior uncle she admired pushed her off the Sword-Sacrificing Platform, his face full of compassion. "What use is a good-for-nothing like you to the world? Once this sword is forged, I'll surpass your master and become someone the cultivation world has never seen before."

Her eldest senior sister braved danger and went alone to the Dragon-Slaying Platform to find her, only to shatter her soul with a single palm strike, her face righteous and resolute. "Master is about to ascend to immortality. He must sever his worldly ties, but you keep bringing him endless trouble."

At the moment she died, everyone came to their senses and regretted what they had done. Some even descended into madness, willing to trade their lives just to see her look back at them once more...

Only after Yun Man was reborn did she learn that all of this was a karmic retribution plot arranged by the Heavenly Dao.

She was a goddess who had descended to the mortal world for a trial. Her mission was to redeem the vicious villains who had tormented her with boundless compassion and love, after which she could retire from the world and return to Heaven.

Yun Man: "????"

Sorry, no boundless love, only a descent into darkness. If she can't retire from the world, she'll fight her way back to Heaven.

Later, Yun Man appeared before them. Looking down at the people kneeling in the dirt and begging for forgiveness, watching them wish they could give her everything they had,

she raised her foot and crushed their hand bones and their dignity. Then she smiled and said, "I don't need it anymore."

From now on, she would be the most heartless, unfeeling, and callous little goddess in the Nine Heavens. Whoever tried to put her through a karmic retribution arc, she'd scatter their ashes to the winds.

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My own cultivation setting, with a mountain of original worldbuilding. The plot is the main focus. [The first 18 chapters are all about the heroine being abused. It will be frustrating, so don't read if you dislike that.] After Chapter 21, as the blurb says, the heroine will make everyone pay for their part in the karmic retribution arc. The early part is full of cliches and melodrama; the later part has a more outlandish premise and somewhat complicated worldbuilding. The male lead is someone else. Insults will be reflected back at you. JJ has plenty of great books, and I hope everyone finds something they like.

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Pre-release: The Heavenly Saintess Can't Possibly Be a Hopeless Romantic

Shen Lingran is the saintess of the Four Heavens of the Sacred Realm. Noble and gentle, she cares for all under Heaven. Once she passes the Ancient Sacred Realm's most rigorous trial of the heart, whose failure brings the most terrible consequences, she will become the Heavenly Saintess who rules the entire divine realm.

But Shen Lingran believes her Daoist heart is steadfast and that she fears nothing.

Until one day, she suddenly discovers that she is a supporting female character in a Mary Sue redemption novel.

In the future, she will give up her chance to take the trial for the sake of her beloved Dao companion and elope with him. She will even do foolish things that endanger the world to help him save the cinnabar mole he cherishes most, becoming a fallen god reviled by everyone in the divine realm. In the end, she will die tragically on the day her Dao companion marries that cinnabar mole.

For now, her Dao companion is only her fiance.

And the cinnabar mole he keeps in his heart has yet to appear.

When her fiance invites her to meet three days later, supposedly for a quiet gathering but actually to coax her into marrying him, Shen Lingran calmly taps the letter with her slender, pale fingers. Her expression is cool and composed, and utterly certain.

I could never be a hopeless romantic.

Everyone knows that Zhang Qiuchi, the most renowned Dao Lord in the Ten Continents and Three Islands, has admired Shen Lingran, the saintess of the Ancient Sacred Realm, for hundreds of years.

On this day, he holds the most celebrated proposal ceremony in the divine realm for her.

Cloud seas, sunset, the heavenly light bestowed by the divine tree, and night butterflies fluttering through the air among the falling flowers.

This was what Shen Lingran had once dreamed of.

But on this day, Zhang Qiuchi kneels before her and proposes.

His long-vanished cinnabar mole appears and, weeping like a pear blossom in the rain, kneels behind him, clutching a corner of his robe and begging him not to leave her.

When Shen Lingran asks, "Choose me, or her?"

When Zhang Qiuchi's cinnabar mole suddenly vomits blood, and a brief flicker of hesitation crosses his face.

Shen Lingran decisively draws her sword and severs the marriage bond between them in front of all the gods.

"From now on, there will be no marriage between us."

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On the day she left the scoundrel, the gods tried to cheer up their future Heavenly Saintess by sending a group of handsome young male demons before Shen Lingran and letting her choose one.

To shut them up, Shen Lingran casually pointed at one, never expecting to choose the most beautiful one, who was also the most ferocious and possessive about his food.

Oh well. If she teaches him properly, he'll learn to behave.

However, a hundred years later, the beautiful yet ferocious young male demon suddenly vanished. When he reappeared, he had become the Demon Lord, the one most dreaded and troublesome to both the Ancient Sacred Realm and the Ten Continents and Three Islands. He caused trouble every few days, throwing the areas around the divine realm into chaos.

Shen Lingran rubbed her aching brow, beginning to doubt herself. Could my judgment really be this bad? Did I misread him again?

Not long after, the young Demon Lord came before Shen Lingran with a peace proposal promising they would never go to war again. He gazed at her pleadingly and, as soon as he opened his mouth, called out pitifully, "Big Sister, I was wrong. Don't send me away."

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The Demon Lord Tingzhou has a secret hidden in his heart.

He wants to possess someone whom no one could ever possess.

He knows it's impossible.

But he wants to anyway.

"I want to fill your eyes, your lips, and your heart every moment of every day. But, Big Sister, I know you have your responsibilities, so I can be patient and wait, just like a puppy patiently waiting for its owner."

A cool, gentle fairy big sister who cares for all under Heaven VS a violent, possessive young Demon Lord who pretends to be obedient.

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The Karmic Retribution Arc Ended in Tragedy, and the Immortal Lord and I Both Revealed Our Secret Identities

Xun Yao saved someone.

He had striking brows and bright eyes, and the cool temperament of the moon over a solitary mountain. Yet when he lifted his gaze to her, he looked both innocent and seductive.

Xun Yao's heart, which had been alone for hundreds of years, instantly fluttered.

He smiled at her. He called her Big Sister. He said he was in pain. Xun Yao fell for him as if bewitched.

She disregarded the criticism and kept him by her side, searching for immortal medicine for him, going to the execution platform for him, entering the sea of prisons for him, cutting out her immortal root for him, and giving up cultivation without hesitation.

Only when her sect was razed to the ground and the bodies of countless fellow disciples lay before her did she finally wake up. His true identity was the Immortal Lord of a rival immortal sect, and he didn't love her either.

He took Xun Yao away, not to repay her, but to use her for what she was worth.

He wanted to forge her into a spiritual sword and give it as a birthday present to his master, the most beautiful woman in the Three Realms.

Xun Yao finally understood that some people do have hearts, but they can never be warmed.

To sever this ill-fated bond, Xun Yao cut out her heart, drew out her bones, and fused her soul to help him forge the spiritual sword. Then, as he watched in horror, she vanished completely from this world.

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The ancient Demon God Xun Yao had lived for tens of thousands of years. She was gravely wounded in the last war between gods and demons and was forced into a deep sleep.

In her dream, she endured a painful unrequited love, both physically and emotionally. Just as she was so enraged that she decided to wake up and take revenge, her hand paused on the coffin lid.

In the dream, the scoundrel had resurrected the version of her who had taken her own life to sever their bond.

Xun Yao closed the coffin lid and went back to sleep, while sending a wisp of her black primordial spirit into the body from her dream. The scoundrel tormented me a thousand times? Now it's my turn to torment him!

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Li Linya was rescued while unconscious and gravely wounded. When he woke up, he found himself in a rival immortal sect.

His rescuer was a naive, innocent little fool, as fragile as a white flower. All it took was a smile and a single "Big Sister" from him for her to be put in a difficult position by her sect, turn against her masters and fellow disciples, and do every foolish thing imaginable.

No one had ever cared for him so earnestly.

So earnestly that he wanted to destroy her.

Later, he succeeded. She would rather leap into a sword furnace than look at him again.

Li Linya went mad. He slaughtered the entire immortal sect and gathered countless souls, not even sparing his own master, all so he could see her again.

At last, he resurrected her. This time, he never wanted to lose her again. He carefully guarded her with his life, searching for medicine for her, protecting her heart, refining her bones, and doing everything for her that she had once done for him. He thought he could win back her heart.

Until the day his sword bones were fully formed, and she stabbed him in the heart.

She rolled a bead of his blood between her fingers, tenderly smeared it over his lips, then leaned in to kiss him.

As their lips and teeth entwined and their breaths mingled, she smiled cruelly. "Linya, I want a sword too. A spiritual sword forged from your body."

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The Imperial Lord Li Linya descended to the mortal world to undergo a trial, but returned in failure.

As he watched himself, covered in blood, in the Reincarnation Mirror, being pushed into the sword furnace by that heartless woman, his heart ached so much he could barely stand. The madness in his eyes was even greater than it had been during his trial.

He would find her, destroy her, and make sure she could never leave him!

At last, they met again.

As the power of the ancient Demon God Xun Yao and the Heavenly Emperor Li Linya collided, shaking the heavens and collapsing the celestial palace, Xun Yao looked at Li Linya with a careless, mocking smile. "Linya, it's been years. Why don't you call me Big Sister anymore?"

Li Linya's gaze seemed to hook into her. He gave a mocking, playful smile, but his words were as innocent and aggrieved as when they first met. "If I call you that, will you love me again? Big... Sister!"

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An ancient Demon God heroine who pretends to be a fragile white flower but is actually a black-hearted lotus VS a selfish, cold-blooded, scheming villain of an Immortal Lord hero.

Both leads have several secret identities, and their true forms are devastatingly powerful fighters.

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Content warning: A melodramatic, angsty novel. Both leads are put through physical and emotional suffering, so fans of either the male or female lead should steer clear. This is a self-indulgent work. The characters' values do not represent the author's.

Theme: No matter how many hardships you go through, never give up on becoming stronger.