After Successfully Assassinating the Male Lead

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At fifteen, Mu Yao takes the spirit-root test for the third time and still has nothing. She is a good-for-nothing with no spiritual abilities. Yet by a stroke of luck, she gets the chance to join the Four Immortals Academy, the foremost academy in the Immortal Dynasty.

Without a spirit root, it is almost impossible to make progress on the path of cultivation. Mu Yao has no choice but to find another way: form a bond with someone who has a spirit root.

As luck would have it, on her way up the mountain she comes across a lost young man. He says cultivation is too dangerous and he wants to go home and farm. Mu Yao tells him, "You've come all this way. How can you give up so easily?"

Although the young man's spirit root is only a muddled, low-grade false spirit root, to Mu Yao it is nothing less than a lifeline. So she subdues him, bundles him up, forcibly takes him to the mountain, and forms a cultivation partnership with him so they can cultivate together.

The young man keeps trying to persuade her: "I'm useless. Don't ruin your future because of me. That senior brother seems nice, and that one has an excellent spirit root. Why don't you pick someone else?"

Mu Yao knows it was wrong to force him, so all she can do is try to accommodate him as much as possible. Finally, one day she obtains her own spirit root. Mu Yao says, "I know I've wronged you. From now on, you're free."

But the young man looks at her with tears in his eyes, pitiful and vulnerable. "Yao Yao, you're not going to abandon me, are you?"

The wandering immortal Xing Hong was once the greatest independent cultivator in the cultivation world. Rumor had it that no one could defeat him, yet he would beat up anyone he saw and pummel any demon he encountered. Even an ant passing by would get three slaps.

Now Xing Hong has fallen from power and lost all his cultivation. He can only hide somewhere rich in spiritual energy to recover his strength. Unexpectedly, a young woman catches sight of him.

The young woman has no spirit root and cannot use spiritual energy, yet she takes him down with nothing but her fists and feet, then forcibly drags him up the mountain.

It's over. He has beaten every elder at the Four Immortals Academy at least once. All he can do is meekly follow the young woman and do his best to stay hidden, even becoming her cultivation partner.

He used to be alone. When has he ever had a cultivation partner? Xing Hong tries everything he can think of to get away.

But when the opportunity finally comes, his heart is torn.

Oh no, even his heart has been carried off in chains.

Reading Guide:

1. The female lead is not a good-for-nothing; she simply awakens late.

2. A cultivation progression story, with steady advancement, step by step.

3. No transmigration into a book, no rebirth, and no golden finger.

4. It shares a world with [After Successfully Assassinating the Male Lead], but the setting will be explored in more detail.

Blurb:

Wuqing has always been one of the most outstanding baleful immortals in the Jue Tian Palace. Few survive her Hook of Stolen Affections. She cannot say she likes this life, but she has accepted it, and now she has been ordered to assassinate Fei Bai, the Sun and Moon Sword Lord.

No one could have imagined that even though Wuqing had made thorough preparations, the young man known as the Immortal Dynasty's number one swordsman would capture her with ease.

Wuqing always thought that even if the baleful immortals took lives for profit, years of depending on one another should have counted for something. But when her fellow baleful immortals arrived, they came only to silence her.

As a sword pierced her heart, the only person who came to Wuqing's aid was Fei Bai, the very target she had been sent to kill.

When Wuqing opens her eyes again, she has returned to the time before she set out. She is once again given the order to assassinate Fei Bai, but this time she will not attack him. Instead, she will join forces with him.

But this time, Fei Bai nearly loses his life, and the only person he can rely on is Wuqing.

Fei Bai, the Immortal Dynasty's number one swordsman, is a genius who reached the Tribulation-Destroying Realm at the age of forty. He has never faced a setback in his life, until he meets a young woman who seems utterly heartless.

Gravely injured and on the brink of death, he flees with the young woman, evading their pursuers until she too is covered in wounds and barely survives.

Fei Bai raises his sword once more and faces the countless baleful immortals hunting them. He laughs coldly, his sword shining like the sun and moon.

"Did you hurt my wife?"

Theme: Never give up hope. Keep pursuing it, and you can always find happiness again.