After Forcing the Villain to Submit

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Blurb:

Nora comes from the most powerful family in the Lightlands. A prodigiously talented young lady, she has been called "the daughter blessed by the gods" since childhood.

At thirteen, she found the terrifying demonspawn everyone feared.

The breathtakingly handsome boy was the Holy Son of the Beastfolk, the enemy clan. He lay in the blood-steaming Dark Forest, his claws broken and his wings snapped.

To control him, she placed a contract of absolute submission on him.

To strike back, he laid a curse on her that bound their lives together.

...Well, then.

From that day on, Nora had two major problems:

First, how could she, at the tender age of thirteen (?), raise herself and this ferocious beast to adulthood?

Second, if she ever managed to break their contract, how could she stop him from eating her?

But later, she realized she had been worrying over nothing.

"Nora, don't leave me."

The grown beast's eyes were bloodshot. He buried his face against Nora's shoulder, his iron-like golden feathers sinking into the snow as his plumage hid the crimson flush spreading across his neck.

...This was a phoenix acting spoiled.

[2]

Back then, every mage in the Lightlands knew that Lady Nora had made a trip to the border and returned with an extraordinarily beautiful maid.

The maid was gentle and courteous, and many people envied Nora for finding such a good companion.

But only Nora knew that every night, the maid would glare at her menacingly in the dark.

"She"... had always wanted to kill her.

[Reading Guide]

1. Nora x Landon. Cool-headed, clever young lady x a vicious beast at first, then a beauty-loving, pampered cross-dressing phoenix.

The leads meet when they are both young: the heroine is thirteen and the hero fifteen. Their romance only begins in earnest after they have both grown up (their childhood phase won't be too long), so it's more of a pseudo childhood-sweetheart story.

2. The hero genuinely tried to harm the heroine early on, but she paid him back in kind. Readers with strong preferences about these dynamics, please take note.

3. Not traditional Western fantasy.

4. Part of the Reborn With My Ex series, with a few overlapping plot points. Also, the heroine of this story was an important supporting female character in the previous novel, but there is no malicious rivalry between the two heroines.

5. Cover art used with permission from Wuyan Shusheng - Xiao Chenjue.

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I Made Up With My Nemesis in the Foil Pair

Miao Jia woke from a dream one day and discovered she was the number one wicked female supporting character and foil to the heroine in a master-disciple romance novel.

In the book, she was the heroine's sworn younger sister, the noble daughter of the sect leader. Yet she was jealous at every turn of the heroine, a proud genius from humble origins. She stole her master, set traps, and snatched resources, committing every evil imaginable. In the end, the heroine's admirers joined forces and cut her down with their swords.

Miao Jia was so angry she nearly cried. After lying in bed all night, she made a decision:

She would never try to steal someone's master again. She was the sect leader's daughter herself. Why not inherit the family business?

Besides, there was something else she could do.

"Elder Sister, I want you as my personal disciple."

On the day Miao Jia succeeded her father as sect leader, she used her one and only quota for forcibly taking on a disciple to point at her aloof sworn sister.

Seeing the heroine's shocked, furious expression, Miao Jia was extremely satisfied.

After that, she really did fulfill her "duties" as a master.

She laid out all the rare treasures, maps to hidden hoards, and secret manuals from her storage ring in front of the heroine, making sure she had seen every single one. "Want them?"

When the heroine stared at her with bloodshot eyes, forcing herself to hold back, Miao Jia smiled happily. "You want them? Then I definitely won't give them to you."

Come on, I've cut off your plotline. Let's see how your master-disciple romance is supposed to work now.

But a year later, the story reached its climax.

The demons invaded. The Dao Venerable, who was supposed to mend the Mandate of Heaven, fled rather than fight. As sect leader, Miao Jia kicked the heroine aside and resolutely climbed onto the Altar of Heaven, intending to sacrifice her life to Heaven.

But just as she was about to begin, a strikingly handsome young man, radiating wicked energy, suddenly burst in and tied her up with a Binding Immortal Rope without a word.

Miao Jia: How did the people below let him through?

"Good Master," he said by her ear. "Don't be reckless. Let me do it."

Miao Jia's vision went dark. He spoke just like her disciple, but why did he look so much like the legendary Demon Emperor?

Theme: People should be self-reliant without becoming detached from society, and should have a sense of social responsibility.