After Failing to Win Over the Black Lotus

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Yu Zhi transmigrates into a cultivation world where gods, demons, immortals, and spirits coexist.

She has ordinary aptitude, but can see how much certain people like her. Thanks to this ability, Yu Zhi becomes the beloved junior sister of Liyue Sect, treasured by everyone.

As the junior sister, all she has to do is bring meals to her senior brothers and sisters in the Demon-Suppressing Pagoda and keep them company. Her life is quiet and uneventful.

Until one day, Yu Zhi comes across a badly injured boy in the snow.

The boy is frail and covered in wounds. Yu Zhi's alarm bells go off, and she turns to leave. She absolutely will not pick up men by the roadside!

But suddenly, a voice appears in Yu Zhi's head, telling her that this boy is her main quest.

Fine. Yu Zhi resigns herself to fate and secretly takes him back with her.

This boy is no ordinary person. According to the voice in her head, in just ten years he'll become a major villain capable of slaying gods and immortals above and demons and monsters below.

Yu Zhi's main quest is to win the boy's affection while steering him away from the wrong path.

So Yu Zhi does everything she can to win him over. She takes meticulous care of him. Even if he steps on an ant, she'll spend half the day explaining that all things possess a spirit.

At last, the boy takes the right path and joins Liyue Sect. His affection for Yu Zhi is only one point short of a perfect score.

Right then, chaos breaks out in the cultivation world.

Xie Zhe becomes the leader of the group sent to fight the demons, while the demon commander somehow learns about Yu Zhi and kidnaps her, hanging her from the city gate.

Xie Zhe leads the cultivators into the demon realm.

Hanging from the city gate, Yu Zhi feels at ease. She thinks Xie Zhe will surely save her.

But before the demon commander can finish threatening him with Yu Zhi, a silver arrow flies straight into her chest.

Yu Zhi opens her eyes and returns to the day she met Xie Zhe.

She decides to give up. Forget the main quest, forget Xie Zhe. Better to freeze to death in this vast, snowy wilderness.

But the boy kneeling in the snow looks up at Yu Zhi, his eyes bloodshot. The numbers indicating his affection glitch into gibberish. He stares at her as if he's been waiting for her for many, many years.

--Upcoming novel blurb--

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They say Pangu separated heaven and earth, and people live on the ground. What about up in heaven?

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In the third year after her boyfriend went missing, Cen Jiao receives a postcard from a small city in the west.

The photo shows the enormous canyon hidden deep in the mountains, a place no one had ever visited, which Xiao Shucheng had set out to explore when he left. On the back, in Xiao Shucheng's handwriting, are the words:

Jiaojiao, save me.

But no one knows better than Cen Jiao that Xiao Shucheng can never come back. He died in the rushing river the day he ventured into the canyon.

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Above the mountains before a rainstorm, thick clouds blanket the sky. From a distance, they seem to merge with the mountains.

That was when Cen Jiao climbed to the mountain peak.

Mist swirled around her. Cen Jiao lifted a foot and found she could walk upward along the clouds.

Step by step, she climbed into the clouds.

As if long ago, she had climbed down, one step at a time, into the human world.

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