After I Found a Bunch of Replacements, the Real One Came Back to Life

[1] I cultivate the Heartless Dao. But I have the heart of someone from the Hehuan Sect. Whenever I see a handsome young man, I want him so badly I can barely stand it. But I have to act aloof and untouchable. What can I do? My master says that for us Heartless Dao cultivators, romantic love is poison, and one touch means death. I don't believe him, so I secretly ask my martial aunt. She says, "That's complete nonsense!" Me: ? [2] I've dreamed of freedom for as long as I can remember. Then one day, my master died. It's not that I was happy he died. I was heartbroken, and dutifully observed mourning for five hundred years. Then I left seclusion and met the first handsome young man I'd seen in five hundred years. In that instant, I had a great revelation, everyone: the world is so big, I can flirt with whoever I want! As a cultivator of the Heartless Dao, I couldn't suddenly change my ways overnight without inviting gossip. I looked back at my master's grave and squeezed out two tears. "Master, the dead are beyond caring. Why not put your lingering influence to good use and give your disciple a chance at half a lifetime of happiness?" The news spread quickly: the heir to the Heartless Dao was secretly in love with her master. After years of suppressing her feelings, she finally snapped when he passed away and began frantically searching for men who resembled him. The Sword Sect's genius had frosty features, just like him. The Buddha's son from Huanshan Temple was aloof and taciturn, just like him. The Yao prince loved fish soup, just like him. The cultivation world's people couldn't help muttering: Wasn't her master a little too versatile? Why did every handsome man in the cultivation world look like him? [3] I was living the life I'd always dreamed of, flirting my way through life without getting attached to anyone. But all good things must come to an end. Five hundred more years passed, and my master came back to life. The cultivation world erupted: Oh, wow, the real deal is back! All the substitutes panicked: Guys, let's put aside our differences and team up! Me: I'm heading out first, guys! I only heard this from my martial aunt, but my newly awakened master had stepped out of his forbidden sanctuary with all the dignity of someone beyond reach. He hadn't expected to be greeted not by his well-behaved disciple, but by a crowd of handsome young men glaring at him with murderous fury. Master: I must have come back to life the wrong way. #What to do when the cabbages you've raised for three thousand years get trampled by a herd of pigs# #When the fake moonlight becomes a substitute# #How to survive when a wolf joins the loyal-dog pack# ***Before You Start*** * The main story is told in third person. * The heroine only pretends to be a fairy. She has no heart. * There are only one-sided crushes. No couple at the end. * Readers are free to comment however they like, but I hope everyone will be kind and keep discussions fun and relaxed. * -- Check out my upcoming story, Forced to Become a Player to Avoid the Crematorium. [Upcoming Story Blurb] Qin Jiu had lived for seventeen years before learning that the world she lived in was a novel. The good news: She's the heroine, destined to become the greatest under heaven. The bad news: She's the heroine of a groveling-romance novel. At first, she treats the male lead with indifference. Later, the plot has her ground to dust. According to the story, she really is a woman who deserves to die. Here are her crimes: 1. When the male lead, a complete stranger to her, asked for help, she didn't offer it for free. 2. Before the male lead had developed feelings for her, she openly accepted a gift from another male cultivator without considering how her future male lead might feel. 3. Before she had feelings for the male lead, another female cultivator confessed to him. Instead of getting jealous and fighting her for him, she told him to follow his heart, which truly broke his heart. Qin Jiu: ? Say that again. How exactly does she deserve to die? In the novel's comment section, readers cursed the heroine, wishing her a horrible death. They begged the author to make her suffer as much as possible, preferably scattering even her ashes. So the author went completely off the rails. Qin Jiu lost an arm, miscarried, had her golden core shattered, and lost all her cultivation. In a torrential downpour, in front of every sect under heaven, she wept and knelt to beg the male lead for forgiveness. He turned around and draped a coat over the second female lead's shoulders. The readers cheered, finally relenting and graciously granting Qin Jiu permission to have a happy ending with the male lead. Qin Jiu: ? Say that again. What do you mean, "graciously granting"? Qin Jiu had no idea what she'd done to deserve this, but to avoid a horrible end, she had no choice but to buck up and figure out who the male lead was. She made sure to respond enthusiastically to every suspected candidate's love from the very start. She thought that one day, the male lead's love for her would stand out from the rest, and his identity would become clear. Who could have guessed that, with her encouragement, all their love would grow stronger and stronger? Worse still, they knew about one another... She's about to be found out! >A Theme: True love cannot be replaced