The Cousin Is No Good (Reborn)

By a stroke of bad luck, Si Ying was thrown into the death-cell and ordered to bear a child for the Xie family's young master, Xie Langjun, who had been sentenced to death, so the Xie family could continue its bloodline. Unfortunately, Xie Langjun was a man of principle. She tremulously undid his waistband, threw herself at him, and clung to him, but he refused to touch her. Instead, he threatened to make her run errands for him and help clear his name. After several failed attempts to seduce him, Si Ying had no choice but to risk her neck and do as he asked. Fortunately, Xie Langjun was eventually released, and Si Ying received the reward he'd promised her: a place as a young lady of the Xie family. With a good new identity, Si Ying was delighted and started arranging to find herself a husband. Strangely enough, every man she met was decent and quite willing to marry her, but something always went wrong with the wedding plans. Not one of them worked out. Seeing Cousin Xie's displeased expression, she assumed he was annoyed that it was taking her so long to find a husband and that she kept staying with his family instead of getting married. To avoid any misunderstanding, she became even more diligent in seeking out a suitable husband, and every few days she would reassure him: "Don't worry, Cousin. I'll be married off soon." Cousin Xie's expression grew darker and darker. One day, after learning she'd found another good match, her so-called cousin became so ill he couldn't get out of bed. Maybe his fever had gone to his head. He clung to her in her arms and gazed at her reproachfully. "Will you only notice me once every man in the world is dead?" [Reading note] The male lead is reborn. ▼ Coming soon: "Have You Read the Sutras to the Eunuch in Charge Today?" ▼ Bad luck seemed to follow Su Zhi, and she became an orphan. Life was hard, and Su Zhi couldn't even make a fire. She had no choice but to go to a nunnery and beg for food. But before she could take her vows, the nunnery was raided. The people who raided the nunnery insisted she looked like the prefect's daughter and happily brought her back to the prefect's residence. Only later did Su Zhi learn that they wanted her to take the prefect's daughter's place and serve a eunuch... Before long, Su Zhi took someone else's place and was sent to the eunuch's residence. Rumor had it that the eunuch wielded such immense power that even the current emperor feared him. He was a powerful eunuch in every sense of the word. But when Su Zhi saw him in person, she was stunned. Wasn't he the poor scholar who used to live next door to her? The poor scholar had been destitute back then, and now he was every bit as glorious as he'd once been wretched. He lifted his thin eyelids, and her teeth began to chatter. "I hear you are talented and accomplished, Miss, especially skilled in music and painting. Why not play a tune for me?" "None of that's true. Don't believe what you hear, Lord Eunuch." "If you have no skills, how do you intend to please me?" The poor scholar wore the uniform of an official, and his voice was cold as ice. Su Zhi clutched her sleeve and sneaked a glance at him. "I... I can recite sutras." He paused, then raised an eyebrow. "Good. Recite a passage for me." The eunuch was a wicked man. Ever since Su Zhi entered his residence, he'd found all sorts of ways to make her recite sutras for him over and over again. ▼ Coming soon: "Demon Venerable, Get Up Already!" ▼ Yun Wei was a wandering cultivator. Though her cultivation wasn't very high, she was doing well as the imperial preceptor in the human realm. With her belly full and her mind on romance, one day she rode out in a sedan chair and spotted a handsome man with long legs. Her mortal desires stirred, and she decided to bring him home as her live-in husband. Yun Wei advanced with all the confidence in the world and tried to grab him, only for him to knock her flat with one move, nearly ripping out her spiritual root. Thinking quickly, Yun Wei changed her tune and said she wanted to take him as her master. He lowered his hand and asked leisurely, "I want to hear some music. What instruments can you play?" Yun Wei thought it over. "...Does whistling count?" He stared at her for a long moment, then raised his hand and placed a contract on her. Yun Wei hadn't found herself a husband, but she'd gained a powerful master instead, and she was thrilled. She called him Master at every opportunity and shamelessly tried to win his favor. Then she discovered he was a demonic cultivator, and the contract he'd made with her was a spiritual pet contract. So he'd been treating her like a pet? Yun Wei regretted it bitterly, but the contract was already in place. Whenever he beckoned, she automatically hurried over with a fawning smile. "Would you like some water, Master?" Her luck went from bad to worse. She'd been turned into his errand girl, and though he had an impressive level of cultivation, it worked only sporadically. He was also ridiculously lazy. She had to fly the sword, fight his battles, fan him when he was hot, light a fire when he was cold... and even hand him his clothes after his bath! She spent her miserable days seething, just waiting for him to lose his powers so she could pinch him a few times. When his cultivation returned, she'd go right back to bowing and scraping, running around after him. Fortunately, Heaven took pity on her. One day, an accident in a secret realm severed their contract. She unexpectedly gained half of her master's cultivation, and only then discovered that the heartless man was the Demon Venerable! Yun Wei was horrified. She took his cultivation and ran all the way to the Hehuan Sect, planning to embrace left and right and enjoy having a harem. But her luck was terrible. She'd barely laid eyes on a handsome young sword cultivator when someone ruined everything. The Demon Venerable grabbed the young sword cultivator and asked Yun Wei, "What was the first thing you said to me that day?" Yun Wei: "...Young sir, are you looking for a wife?" Demon Venerable: "Hmm. I could be." Theme: Seek the truth.