Cultivating Immortality in a Domestic Intrigue Novel

Seeking readers for my ongoing novel: The Princess's Guide to Becoming Ruler Sui Mingzhu transmigrated. In a turbulent age, she didn't become a poor servant girl. Instead, she was lucky enough to be born into the nobility. She was the only daughter of the ruler of Xu, her husband a duke, brilliant and resourceful, and her sworn younger brother a mighty general. With the ruler on his deathbed, he asked her: "Of these two, who do you think should inherit the throne?" If she chose her husband, she would enter the central palace and be honored as queen. If she chose her sworn younger brother, she would be granted the status of a princess with honors equal to a feudal lord. Twenty-five-year-old Sui Mingzhu clung to her last lifeline. She lowered her head in sorrow, while a trace of coldness glinted in her shadowed eyes. She had two dreams. She made her husband ruler, and he named the son of his beloved concubine crown prince. She had no children, and in the cold palace, she was turned into a human pig. She made her sworn younger brother ruler, and he entrusted her with the fate of his kingdom, sending her far away to marry into the Turks. She died miserably in a foreign land. Purple lightning split the sky. The wind and rain howled, and the candles in the magnificent palace burned dimly. "I choose..." Many years later, Sui Mingzhu ascended that hard, cold throne. The realm submitted to her, and rulers from all directions paid homage. Beneath the strings of her crown, her expression was resolute: Father, I choose myself. Novel blurb: [The purchase threshold for VIP chapters is set at 50%] [Slow burn. The cultivation journey officially begins in Chapter 10.] Jiang Fu's mother was a noblewoman from the capital who had spent years in a secret rivalry with her close friend. Jiang's mother had two great regrets in life: she had married the wrong man, and her firstborn was a girl. She could only grit her teeth and bear it, teaching Jiang Fu music, chess, calligraphy, painting, and the skills needed to survive in the inner household, so her daughter could compete with her old friend's daughter once again. Who knew her daughter would veer off course and pursue cultivation instead of battling in the inner household? What a disaster! All those inner-household skills were a waste! When her mother fell gravely ill, she wished Jiang Fu would return to the mortal world. Jiang Fu hurried back, traveling day and night, then knelt and offered her medicine: "Your daughter does not wish to gaze into a mirror, lonely in a red chamber. I would rather ascend to the twelve towers of the Jade Capital, where the immortals dwell." P.S. This is not a traditional cultivation novel. I just want to explore what path a woman with a modern soul might take when living under a feudal system. Her fortuitous encounters on the path to immortality are the author's indulgence, born of my inability to bear seeing her suffer. I don't want to see a modern soul assimilated and molded into a perfect noblewoman confined to the inner household. The Grace of the Gods [Wuxia Crossover], formerly titled I Don't Want to Be with Him. Blurb: The gods gave He Shanshan the setup of a romantic heroine, but she refused to do romance missions. She wasted the gods' favor and received no fortune, no peerless beauty, and no exceptional talent for martial arts. All she had was one innate skill: acting. To survive, she also had to help others and fulfill the wishes of her targets. [Her deal with the gods appears at the end of Volume One. It does not appear before then.] Island Lord: I want to grow old with you. The heroine refuses: We're not right for each other. But the target refuses to change his mind. He Shanshan visits him when he is eighty and takes his hand. (This shows that forced love bears no sweetness.) Flying Swordsman: I want to be famous, known throughout the world! The heroine: I'll not only make you famous throughout the world, I'll make sure history remembers you. The swordsman leaves the jianghu for the frontier, defending his country and protecting its people. (Become famous as a swordsman, or become famous as a general.) Master of the Ximen Manor: I want to attain the ultimate sword path. The heroine: You don't necessarily have to cultivate the path of ruthlessness. The Sword God returns to simplicity and finally attains the Great Dao. He reunites with his friends and his beloved. (There are three thousand paths. Why must it be the path of severing all feelings?) Ye Gucheng: I want the realm. The heroine: All right. The throne is cold and hard. No pear blossom can grow on it. (You cannot have both the realm and the beauty.) Bat Prince: I want to see the light again. The heroine, embarrassed: That's not something I can accomplish with my intelligence. Pick something else. Bat Prince: I want you to do something you can't do. The heroine: ...I suppose that means dating you, and killing people. Third Young Master: I want peace. The heroine: As long as you're alive, there will be conflict. Only death brings peace. The Third Young Master thinks it over and decides against it. He goes off to farm instead. (The instinct to grow vegetables is carved into the bones of the Chinese people.) Seeking advance readers for Quick Transmigration: Twisted Tragedies Zhao Shanshan joined the quick transmigration recruitment boom and was "lucky" enough to get assigned to the Tragic Romance Department, where she handles the heroine's storyline. She picked up the mission sheet: World One: You are a lowly palace maid who loves the crown prince. You devote your life to him, and your whole family is even slaughtered as a result. As you draw your last breath, you receive the crown prince's true love. That makes your life worthwhile. World Two: You are a prince's consort. But the prince is under a love spell and mistakenly falls for a supporting female character from the Miao frontier. You endure blood, tears, and countless trials, selflessly giving everything, until you finally win back the prince's love. World Three: You are an ordinary girl with a secret crush on the top student. Your secret is exposed, and you are bullied, but you never give up. In the end, the male idol comes to love you. World Four: You are a True Lord's cultivation furnace... Zhao Shanshan couldn't bear to look. She suspected every heroine had been reincarnated as Mother Teresa. Zhao the wage slave gritted her teeth through her stomachache and went to work for the high salary. System 65 was very pleased. Its Host met the required cruelty score in every mission, and reached 100% completion. Its KPI was perfect. But gradually, it realized something was wrong. Why had the roles of the characters being tormented switched? The crown prince took his own life, the prince died saving his consort, the top student was bullied by the school bully, and the True Lord fell into demonic cultivation... Still, the novels were getting more popular. Zhao Shanshan said nonchalantly, "Readers are tired of the same old thing. A fresh take makes it interesting." Theme: Only by being independent and self-reliant can we take better responsibility for our own lives.