The Buddhist Disciple Says One Thing and Means Another

[My neighboring story, She and the Monster, is currently being serialized!]

[Please add my upcoming story, The Nightingale Bites [Male Alpha, Female Omega], to your reading list!]

Jiang Li is a princess of the Wuyu Clan, and has followed the Heavenly Son, Jiang Chaoyue, like a little shadow for hundreds of years.

Rumor has it she loves Jiang Chaoyue so much that she was willing to save him with her own heart's blood.

But everyone knows Jiang Chaoyue only bothers with her because she bears some resemblance to Mou Rou.

One day, Jiang Chaoyue found the mortal girl carrying Mou Rou's soul and brought her back, keeping her by his side and caring for her tenderly.

Everyone looked at the distraught Jiang Li and shook their heads in sympathy. What a tragic entanglement.

Later, Jiang Li brought back from the mortal realm a monk with exquisitely handsome features.

He was beautiful, gentle as jade, and looked somewhat like Jiang Chaoyue.

Seeing her carefully tend to the injured monk, Jiang Chaoyue felt unsettled. But thinking that Jiang Li loved him so deeply she had found herself a lookalike substitute, he couldn't help feeling pleased.

Until

Jiang Li stabbed him with a sword.

She drew out her heart's blood and gave it to the monk.

Jiang Chaoyue's eyes turned bloodshot, his face twisted with fury. "Isn't he supposed to be my substitute?"

Jiang Li smiled faintly. "I knew him tens of thousands of years ago. You're the one who's his substitute."

As it turned out, she was a lofty goddess, while the monk was the foremost Buddha of the Golden Sect. They were made for each other, a perfect match.

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The monk's expression was gentle. A sheen of sweat appeared on the tip of his nose, and the corners of his eyes were faintly red. He lowered his gaze and pressed his palms together. "Benefactor."

Jiang Li paused. One glance, and she was lost for life.

This was a web she had carefully spun.

She waited in the endless darkness for her prey to arrive.

She wanted to see desire for a woman named Jiang Li creep into the eyes of the aloof Buddha, to watch him take off his golden robes, to see her fill his clear, handsome features

She thought she had won all of this through her own efforts.

Little did she know that he had actually been making his way toward her, one step at a time.

Nothing is sweeter than mutual secret love.

[A scheming yet gentle Buddha x a proud and kind princess]

Reader's guide:

1. My own take on cultivation fantasy, with countless original settings owo

2. The monk is blind at first, but not later

[Upcoming story: The Nightingale Bites [Male Alpha, Female Omega]]

Vina is an omega from the slums. Before she was sent to an auction, no one could have believed that such a dazzling beauty was hidden away in the slums.

She is the most beautiful nightingale, meant to belong to the powerful.

What no one expects is that this delicate, obedient songbird can bite.

At first, she only gives a tentative little peck. But once her prey has let down its guard completely, she tears savagely into their flesh.

They bow their noble heads and crawl on the ground, while Vina steps onto their backs and climbs higher, one step at a time.

She is a nightingale.

She will wear a crown of roses and become a queen without a crown.

[Seemingly a pet, but actually a predator x a group of arrogant, conceited men]

Reader's guide:

1. A brainless, wish-fulfillment Mary Sue story. The heroine is everyone's darling, but she's a bad woman!

2. Countless original settings, with a Western fantasy flavor. There will be elves and other nonhuman beings. Everything in the plot serves the romance.

3. The male leads are all jerks, but the heroine is an even bigger one.

Theme: You have to fight for your own happiness.