After Cultivating the Way of Ruthlessness, He Cracked

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When Sусу fell from a tree, she had no idea she was a fruit. All she heard was the white-haired, white-bearded old Taoist complaining, "How did a Heartbreak Fruit grow here?"

Then they picked her out and tossed her into the trash.

It turned out that no one in the world had ever mastered the Heartless Path, so she had become a fruit no one would eat.

Grateful to have survived, Sусу wiped away her tears and began selling desserts at the immortal sects. Her excellent cooking and sweet, endearing charm soon made her little stall a thriving business.

One day, Sусу noticed a cool, aloof young man standing in front of her stall.

Seeing him alone all the time, she kindly brought him some milk tea. She gazed at him with sparkling eyes for ages, but he didn't take a single sip.

"Actually, this isn't what I want to eat."

Sусу hurriedly listed all kinds of pastries, but the young man quietly shook his head at every one. Only his gaze, fixed on her, burned with desire.

Sусу thought it over, then suddenly grew alarmed: Oh no, I forgot that I'm a fruit myself.

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When Xu Moyang was young, his family was destroyed, leaving him with only one desire: revenge. When Poison Young Master was taking disciples, he slapped the table in delight. "Isn't this boy born to cultivate the Heartless Path?"

To force his progress, Poison Young Master made him eat a Heartbreak Fruit. Xu Moyang went to check on it several times, only to say it wasn't ripe yet.

By the time Xu Moyang had mastered his cultivation and crushed the righteous alliance, Sусу was presented to him as a "tribute."

Sусу: QAQ

Xu Moyang: ...

1v1, HE, a redemption story

A seemingly sweet but actually cold-blooded acting master, the Heartbreak Fruit x a ruthless, obsessive villain

My new novel, The Aloof Sect Leader's Secret Lover

1v1, HE / everyone loves her / many male supporting characters, but only the male lead has a real relationship with her / everyone has a one-sided crush / a battlefield of rival men

A flirtatious, mischievous sea queen x an aloof, love-struck madman

In her youth, Yu Xi was the most gifted sword cultivator in the Hehuan Sect. But practicing swordsmanship in the Hehuan Sect was hardly the proper path, so on reaching adulthood, Yu Xi boldly made her move on a man.

No, to be precise, she stole a man.

Only after kissing Yu Xi did the man discover that her talent had been "siphoned away" by him. Then, as if covering up a murder, he sealed her in the Landong Glacier and went home to take part in a struggle among nine princes for the throne.

A thousand years later, Yu Xi thawed out. "Awoo! The dragon awakens! Bring my concubines back to the palace!"

The scumbag from back then, now the Lord of Fengdu: ?

Yu Xi: Sorry to bother you.

She quickly abandoned her urge to beat him up. Yu Xi had once been a sword prodigy, but now she could no longer cultivate and had to make do with her middling cultivation, eating her fill and waiting to die.

But would Yu Xi simply give up and spend the rest of her life like that? Of! Course! Not!

She heard that Shu Mountain had a magical treasure that could command the heroes of the world and make its owner the emperor of the cultivation world.

Yu Xi: There's a deal like that?

The very next day, she set her sights on Shu Mountain's young sect leader.

Huai Yi had a pure water spirit root, unmatched in two thousand years. A sword prodigy and the heir to Shu Mountain, he was the very embodiment of the righteous path.

But after deliberately getting close to him, Yu Xi discovered that beneath his seemingly cold exterior, he was guileless and inexperienced in love. A little coaxing was enough to make his face turn red.

Yu Xi found herself hesitating to go through with it.

So she came right out and told him:

"I'm just playing around with you. When I get bored, we'll break up. Don't get the wrong idea."

Huai Yi: ...

Later, they became secret lovers in every sense of the word.

When Huai Yi lectured his disciples, she flirted with him. When he handled sect affairs, she interfered. Yu Xi wanted him to accompany her on a trial in Xuanshan, though no sect leader had ever gone there.

The next day, every sect looked at Shu Mountain's leader in a new light for leading from the front.

But as time passed, Yu Xi began to feel that something was off about him.

When a disciple confessed his feelings for her, Huai Yi raised his sword. "Get lost."

When she ran into the darkened merfolk she had once abandoned, Huai Yi said, "Kill him."

When she met Huai Yi's own junior brother, who was in love with her, Huai Yi looked at his hopeless junior brother, then turned and hugged Yu Xi, his eyes reddening.

"I'm jealous of him."

Yu Xi: ???

We agreed to part on good terms. Why won't you let go?

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Huai Yi had been disciplined and proper since childhood. He was the most rule-abiding disciple Shu Mountain had ever raised, growing up under its strict precepts. At a young age, he had become as old-fashioned and stubborn as the elders, set in his ways year after year.

Later, people said that Huai Yi, the Buddha-like paragon, had fallen from his pedestal, hopelessly in love with the former Holy Maiden of the Hehuan Sect, now an "unwanted old woman" from a thousand years ago.

Some said Huai Yi had fought his way to Fengdu for that old woman, forcing the Ghost Emperor to summon gods from every direction to defend him.

But Huai Yi spent all his cultivation and endured the agony of having flesh carved from his body, cutting down every obstacle in his path and personally returning to her the talent stolen from her all those years ago.

"Xixi, look. None of those men treats you as well as I do."

1v1, HE, a battlefield of rival men

Flirtatious, mischievous sea queen (unlucky version: bold in both thought and action, but caught by the male lead every time she tries to find a man, and forced to stay chaste)

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A seemingly gentle but secretly calculating, love-struck, aloof madman (extremely conservative, regards chastity as a virtue, and strictly insists the heroine follow his example)

Huai Yi's famous saying: If a wife changes her heart, it's because her husband failed to keep her.

*The heroine is beloved by everyone, older, of higher standing, and the most beautiful. She breaks the ice with the male lead from the start. The ex-husband has very little page time.

*Huai Yi's storylines:

The Aloof Sect Leader Falls for Me / I'm the Abstinent Sect Leader's Secret Lover

Second male lead Su Xuetang: He Turned Dark After I Abandoned Him, the Merman

Third male lead Chu Ci: The Fox Spirit Kept Himself Pure for Me

Fourth male lead Xie Wei: The New Emperor's Unrequited First Love

Ex-husband Ning He: My "Poor Wife" Has Come Back for Revenge

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Theme: Everything happens for the best.