I Outlived the Dragon-Proud Hero

Coming soon: My Senior Sister Hasn't Been a Stand-In for Years, please add it to your reading list! Blurb: The heroine's version: Yun Rong was born with extraordinary strength and lost both her parents. Since childhood, she had despised evil and beaten every little bully in the village into submission. Eventually, she became a constable, specializing in dealing with local thugs. One day, after she had finished dealing with a gang of bullies, she looked up and spotted someone still standing in a tree. She called him down. To her surprise, his first words after climbing down were, "A woman shouldn't be so rough and uncouth." His second words were, "I'm your future husband, Han Yi, the head of the Dianheng Sect." Before he could get to his third sentence, Yun Rong pinned him down and sneered, "Once we're at the yamen, I'm your grandma." The hero's version: Han Yi had cultivated smoothly to become the most powerful Dao Lord in the world, only to fail at ascending. He cast a fortune for himself and discovered that he was destined to marry a gentle, virtuous mortal woman. Once she died, he would be able to ascend successfully. But sixty years passed, then six hundred, then six thousand... He died, and that mortal woman was still alive. Blurb for My Senior Sister Hasn't Been a Stand-In for Years: Fake-gentle, truly ruthless senior sister x former scoundrel, now maddened junior brother (both are stand-ins) The Shifang Sect had a senior sister named Guixin. She was as beautiful as an immortal, gentle and serene as a goddess from the heavens. Unfortunately, her taste in men was terrible. She had fallen for her playboy junior brother, Xie Changxian, who had someone else in his heart and treated her only as a stand-in, to the dismay of countless admirers. She took the blame and accepted punishment for Xie Changxian. She even risked her life to retrieve a secret treasure, all to help him win a beauty's smile. In the end, she died, becoming a subject of gossip over tea. Xie Changxian was gifted and clever, and had been raised from childhood as the sect's future leader. The sect's perfect senior sister always showed him special favor. Everyone said she liked him and felt sorry for her. Only he knew that there had never been anything for him in her eyes. Later, the senior sister was buried in a secret realm, leaving no body behind. Everyone mourned the injustice done to her, but only he knew she wasn't dead. She had simply left. He nearly exhausted himself before he managed to find her again. He wanted to ask her why. But he saw her smile and ask the dead man in the wheelchair, whose appearance was strikingly similar to his own, "Why haven't you come to marry me yet?" A few things to know before reading: 1. Updates daily. I'll take a day off if something comes up! 2. An alternate-world cultivation fantasy with a mix of settings. 3. Read for fun; overanalyzing will only spoil it. 4. You can also check out my completed novel, The Reborn Emperor, set in a matriarchal world (a highly skilled, proud, and tsundere empress x a shameless emperor who lies through his teeth). 5. Cover illustration used with permission: Jiu Yan from Shuimo Danqing. Theme: If life fools you, don't panic. Just stand your ground and adapt without changing your principles.