The Most Hated One Is the Ancestor's Beloved

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[An ancient, long-lived top x a stubborn, intersex beauty bottom]

[Important warning: The bottom is intersex and was not chaste in his previous life. He was used as a cultivation furnace.]

[I]

In his previous life, Shen Jiangli was the most hated person in his sect. His martial aunt treated him like a tool, his master thought he was holding back his path to immortality, and his martial uncle tricked him into thinking that being intersex was an illness. His disciple was always saying he hated him and that he was the person who most deserved to die. Turning him into a cultivation furnace was the only way to ease his hatred.

Shen Jiangli couldn't understand why.

Was it because of his body?

Because he was intersex, born with a body that could serve as a cultivation furnace, an existence the immortal sects would not accept? Did that mean he deserved to be burdened with baseless accusations and malice, and tortured to death?

That didn't seem to be it.

It was simply because he was Shen Jiangli.

Hatred didn't need a reason. His flawed body was nothing but an excuse to satisfy their twisted desires.

Shen Jiangli was meant to be despised by the world, reduced to a cultivation furnace, and condemned to a miserable life.

As he lay dying, Shen Jiangli wondered in confusion: Was there anyone in this world who would love him without reservation simply because he was himself?

As it turned out, there was.

The man had white hair. He smashed the carefully constructed cage to pieces, came to Shen Jiangli covered in blood, and held him gently in his arms. As tears mixed with blood fell, Shen Jiangli heard him say, "I'm sorry."

[II]

Then Shen Jiangli was reborn.

Desperate to find the man and ask him, "Why do you love me?" he searched and searched, eventually deciding that the man must be Pingling Wusheng.

Who was Pingling Wusheng?

The sect's grand ancestor, the greatest cultivator of the emotionless Dao under heaven. When they first met, he had even given Shen Jiangli four words: "Utterly wanton and depraved." He certainly didn't seem like someone who would fall for a person like him.

Shen Jiangli turned to leave, but Pingling Wusheng wrapped an arm around his waist.

"Don't go."

Shen Jiangli: ?

"I like you however you are. Show me how wanton you can be, all right?"

Shen Jiangli: ???

Didn't you cultivate the emotionless Dao?

He started taking advantage of his grand ancestor's favor to lord it over everyone. If he couldn't win an argument, he'd fight. If he couldn't win a fight, he'd call for his grand ancestor. He became a tyrant, running amok and wreaking havoc wherever he went.

[III]

As it turned out, the people who had once cast him aside like trash all inexplicably came crawling back.

Shen Jiangli suddenly understood.

What you can't have is always the best!

He stopped feeling ashamed of his body and stopped grieving over the baseless hatred directed at him. An intersex body that embodied both yin and yang was a gift unlike any other in the world.

When demonic calamity ravaged the world, Shen Jiangli shattered the demonic barrier with one sword strike atop a snowy mountain and astonished everyone with another. Brilliant, dazzling, passionate, and carefree, he became the unattainable white moonlight in countless people's hearts.

[Bonus scenes]

Pingling Wusheng had long realized that he had improper feelings for Shen Jiangli. There was no need to hide it. He had fallen for him early and was hopelessly devoted, wishing he could keep Shen Jiangli by his side every day and watch him every moment. Only then could he be satisfied!

His Buddhist cultivator friend couldn't take it any longer and came to confront him. "How old are you this year?"

Pingling Wusheng: "Over two thousand, nearly three thousand, I guess..."

Buddhist cultivator: "And him?"

"Him" naturally meant Shen Jiangli.

Pingling Wusheng looked guilty.

Buddhist cultivator: "Answer me!"

Pingling Wusheng: "...Twenty-three."

The Buddhist cultivator flew into a rage. "You beast!"

At a celebration banquet, Shen Jiangli got drunk and mistook Pingling Wusheng for someone else. He threw his arms around him and started calling him big brother.

The sect leader, elders, senior brothers, and senior sisters all gasped in shock.

That was their grand ancestor!!!

Calling the grand ancestor big brother? How many generations did you just skip?!

The grand ancestor blushed and cleared his throat with a muffled cough.

"Skipping one more generation wouldn't matter."

?

One more generation?

How?

Shen Jiangli seemed obedient, but was actually a little liar who spoke nothing but lies and had no wish to give his heart to anyone again.

He could always pretend to be whatever someone liked most. In the end, all that remained was an empty shell and a shattered soul.

Until Pingling Wusheng knelt before him and pressed Shen Jiangli's hand against his own.

"I don't care if you're sincere or using me. I'm willing either way."

"As long as I can watch you every moment."

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1. This is a story about a couple falling in love while taking revenge along the way :D

2. If this isn't to your taste, feel free to criticize the author, but don't criticize the two of them. Just don't be too harsh on the author either. I'm sensitive, so a little scolding is fine, hehe.

3. The next story will be about the tool big brother. Please add it to your reading list. Sending hearts!

Coming soon: After the Tool Big Brother Who Witnessed the Main Characters' Love Awakens

A master who isn't a good person, top x a refined, black-hearted lotus flower of a senior brother

What's a disciple? A disciple is someone I find so I can make him my wife. (laughs)

[I]

Shen Lanshan had spent several hundred years diligently looking after the junior brothers and sisters in his sect as its senior brother. Lately, he might have worked himself into an occupational injury, because several lines of floating text appeared over his head.

[Can this cannon fodder get lost already? Hurry up and leave the story. I want to see the top and bottom fall in love.]

[This senior brother is so annoying and has no sense of tact. He's interrupted their flirting so many times. Without him, the romance between the top and bottom would have progressed a ton.]

[The author spoiled that he's not long for this world, hehe.]

A System suddenly appeared. "Congratulations, you've been bound to the Cannon Fodder Self-Rescue System. In this world, the main characters falling in love is the highest priority. Better to let the world down than you. To protect you, we'll destroy the whole world if we have to! To survive, Host, do your best to support the main couple and protect their love~"

Shen Lanshan felt a little sad.

So all his careful guidance had been nothing but an obstacle to love in his junior brothers' eyes.

So every living, breathing person in this world would eventually be sacrificed for their love.

So...

Shen Lanshan gave a bitter smile. "I understand. I'll do my best to help them."

But...

Why should he?

[II]

Demonic Heart was a wildly popular recent novel with two male leads, centered on the tortured romance between the top and bottom. It had drawn in a huge following.

But recently, the tone of the comments section had changed.

At first:

[So that's why the senior brother keeps interrupting them. He's into the bottom! Top, watch out. You've got a rival in love!]

[I'm all for the gentle senior brother as the top!]

[I'm sick of their tortured romance. They've spent three hundred chapters agonizing over whether they love each other even though they've already kissed. Senior brother, hurry up and take the bottom away!]

Later:

[Something's not right. None of this is right... I can understand the bottom falling for the senior brother, but why has the top fallen for him too?]

[Has anyone seen his character art? Who could possibly not fall for him when he looks like that?!]

[Our Senior Brother Shen is just this irresistible, everybody-loves-him succubus, hehe.]

Later still:

[You're telling me the guy who's got all the great clans dancing in the palm of his hand is the same Senior Brother Shen who doesn't even dare kill a chicken?!]

[He killed three birds with one stone, made several immortal sects turn against each other, and profited from the chaos. What a schemer...]

The comments flooded the screen in excitement:

[Shen Lanshan is playing all you love-struck fools like dogs!!!]

The System stared wide-eyed at the discussions' soaring popularity and the increasingly unhinged plot.

That works too?!

[III]

In this chaotic cultivation world, where human lives were treated like weeds, some slaughtered an entire city to make a Ten Thousand Souls Banner, while others sacrificed all living beings to resurrect their beloved.

Only Shen Lanshan treated people like people.

But there were always people who wanted to pull this savior from his pedestal and lock him in a golden cage.

Shen Lanshan glanced at the screen full of red comments.

[Run!]

[Your master wants to ******** you!]

[Run!!!]

Run?

That wasn't his style.

He drank every last drop of the love potion his master handed him. With his vision blurred by intoxication, he grabbed his master's collar.

"My dear master, what other tricks do you have? Go ahead and use them all."

Theme: Have the courage to fight against a fate that seems already decided.