The Eldest Senior Brother Was Captured by the Demon Lord Again

----Novel Blurb----

★ An innocent but super-powerful paragon of the demonic path X a cool and aloof beacon of the righteous path who comes to understand her own feelings

In the world of cultivation stands Mount Wangtian, and on it sits the Carefree Pavilion.

The Carefree Pavilion has always stayed out of worldly affairs. Its disciples love one another, help one another in their cultivation, and live together in harmony.

Until one day, shocking news spread like wildfire.

"Disaster! The senior brother has been abducted by a demoness!"

The Carefree Pavilion was thrown into chaos.

The whole cultivation world was in an uproar, too.

The demon sect's holy maiden had spent over a hundred years in seclusion. The moment she emerged, she effortlessly kidnapped the Carefree Pavilion's most gifted senior disciple, leaving every righteous sect on high alert.

Valley of Fire and Darkness: Quick! Send word to the senior brother who's out training. Tell him to come back!

Heavenly Profound Sect: Strengthen the senior brother's seclusion barrier at once!

Spirit Sword Sect: Where's your eldest senior sister?!

Unexpectedly, while the righteous sects were on high alert, the demonic sect remained as peaceful as ever.

Back at the Carefree Pavilion.

Junior brother: Where did senior brother go?

Second senior brother: Probably to the demonic sect first thing this morning.

The little junior sister planted her hands on her hips, puffing up in indignation. "Why didn't you tell me sooner, second senior brother? I wanted senior brother to bring me some spirit fruit from the demonic sect!"

The other sects: ...

Bai Qiu: ??? This venerable one only kidnaps good-looking people.

*

When she was little, her older brother told her that the most important thing for advancing one's cultivation was to find a powerful cultivation partner.

Bai Qiu took his words to heart and added one more requirement: they had to be good-looking, too.

So on the first day after emerging from seclusion, she stormed the Carefree Pavilion and abducted Ye Liumu, the most beautiful person in the cultivation world, whose talent was equally extraordinary.

Bai Qiu: Are you willing to become this venerable one's cultivation partner?

Ye Liumu, usually cool and aloof, blushed at the tips of his ears. "Demon Venerable, please behave yourself."

The first time she abducted him, he refused.

The second time, he still refused.

Later, Bai Qiu learned that her brother had made the whole thing up.

Bai Qiu stroked her chin, deep in thought. "So that's why it doesn't work. No wonder Ye Liumu won't agree."

A month later.

Bai Qiu eyed Ye Liumu, who was sitting calmly in the demonic sect.

"I didn't kidnap you this time."

"Mm."

"Since a cultivation partner is no use, I won't kidnap you anymore."

"..."

Ye Liumu lowered his eyes and pondered for a long while before speaking with utmost seriousness. "Actually, it isn't entirely useless."

Reading Guide:

1. Cultivation stages (for all cultivators): Spirit Tempering - Illusion Shattering - Dao Inheritance - Origin Forging - Spirit Tempering - Dao Union - Great Ascension - Tribulation and Ascension. Except for Great Ascension, each stage is divided into early, middle, late, and complete stages.

2. Lots of personal worldbuilding.

----Ongoing Novel: The Substitute Bride. Please Add to Your Reading List----

Pei Ningxuan thought his new bride, the young princess consort, was a spy, an enemy.

But she openly admitted that she was just a fake, brought in as a substitute bride.

Even after putting all his spies to work, he couldn't uncover her identity or origins.

Luo Xun sighed, saying his luck had finally turned around: a beautiful wife had fallen right into his lap.

He accepted her.

But as time went by, he began to suspect that his young princess consort was connected to the fragmented dreams that had haunted him lately.

Then, one day, he awoke from a long dream.

Pei Ningxuan finally remembered.

She was the one he had finally won back after offering up everything he had gained in his life and his very flesh and blood.

What he had lost was the dazzling sun.

But before him now was a luminous moon.

When he found her, she was not wearing the bright, beautiful dress she loved. Instead, she lay on her back across a horse, clad in a plain robe stained with blood, bathed in the moonlight pouring down from above and mingling with the scent of blood.

When she noticed him, the young woman calmly turned her face and pointed to the full moon overhead. Smiling, she said, "Look, the moon is so bright tonight... How lovely."

*

After living two lives and transmigrating twice, both times to the same place and meeting the same people, An Ziye finally understood that some things and some people simply could not be avoided.

So she chose to avenge the blood debt and put the grudges of her past life to rest.

In the years that followed, she often rode across the magnificent landscapes she had longed to see. When tired, she would rein in her horse and stop at a teahouse, savoring a cup of tea as she quietly explored the countless sides of life she had once ignored.

When she was in a particularly good mood, she would generously invite the young man in white, who silently followed behind her and sat with her as she rested, to share a piece of tea cake or one of the sweets he loved.

----Pre-Release: The Beauty's Account Book. Please Add to Your Reading List----

# A shrewd, clear-headed beauty VS a noble, pure-hearted, ailing young master #

Marriage before love, one-on-one romance

In Liangzhou, two families were rich: the Jins and the Lus.

The two wealthy families arranged a marriage, securing both a business deal and a match.

The Song family's young daughter was breathtakingly beautiful, delicate, and kindhearted.

The Lu family's young master was handsome and radiant, gentle and warm.

Everyone sighed, "This is sure to be a beautiful love story."

But then the Lu family's business ran into trouble and the family fell into decline. The Song family seized the opportunity to break off the engagement.

*

Her father valued profit over integrity and destroyed the betrothal arranged when the children were still in the womb.

Hearing that her fiance was clever, Song Hua planned to help him in secret, then discuss marriage again once he had rebuilt the family business.

But her fiance was proud and arrogant. He left without a word, and she never saw him again.

Later, her father decided to marry her off to a notorious wastrel in the city.

On the wedding day, the newly appointed prefect arrived with a marriage contract in hand. Using the broken engagement as his pretext, he had her father and the wastrel thrown into prison.

Only then did Song Hua learn that the prefect was the young master of the Lu family, who had returned to settle the score for the way her family had kicked him when he was down.

To save them, she went to plead with him in person.

But he looked down at her for a long moment and said with a faint, unreadable smile, "I have always been fair. Those who do wrong must be punished, and whatever is owed must be repaid."

Song Hua thought it over, then suddenly understood.

"Fine. Then let's get married."

*

Once the favored son of heaven, Lu Zichen had fallen from prominence, lost both his parents, and was now about to have his engagement broken off. Frail and sickly, he had long since lost hope.

He thought, let her break it off. Given his circumstances, he couldn't bear to drag that young woman into a life of hardship.

Lu Zichen personally delivered the marriage contract to her home, intending to put an end to it.

But he accidentally overheard his future father-in-law negotiating with someone.

So the Song family wanted to monopolize the market.

So the Song family was responsible for the predicament he was in.

Lu Zichen clenched his teeth, glared at the marriage contract in his hand, and left Liangzhou without hesitation.

He went to the capital, took the imperial examinations, and eventually became the prefect of a province. Then he returned to his old home.

He heard that his fiancee was going to marry someone else?

"As if I'd let you have your way."

So he had the father and son-in-law thrown into prison.

When his fiancee came to plead for them, he deliberately made things difficult for her, saying, "I have always been fair. Those who do wrong must be punished, and whatever is owed must be repaid."

The Lu family was owed justice, and that debt had to be repaid.

Unexpectedly, the young woman thought it over and suddenly said, "Then let's get married."

Lu Zichen: ?

In the years that followed, people out boating would sometimes happen upon the prefect and his wife, so affectionate and loving that they seemed to have honey between them.

The people of Liangzhou were deeply moved. "Three years later, and that beautiful love story has come true after all!"

[Short Scene]

Lu Zichen learned that his wife had once used their marriage arrangement to extort a share of the family property from her greedy father.

That night, in the soft blue canopy bed, Lu Zichen suddenly stopped and gazed at the lovely woman in his arms, her eyes shimmering with tears. His gaze darkened as he held himself back and asked in a low voice, "Madam, you hid some estates and fields from me, hundreds of miles outside Liangzhou. Were you planning to divorce me?"

Song Hua, who really had been planning to do just that, was secretly startled. She kept her expression composed, though, and clung to his neck, sobbing pitifully.

"Back then, I thought my husband had returned to exact revenge, and that sooner or later he'd throw me out. So I made sure to have a fallback plan."

The moment his wife cried, Lu Zichen was at a loss. Even though he knew her excuse was a lie, he still bent down to kiss the tears from the corners of her eyes, soothing her gently.

"I won't throw you out."

"And I won't divorce you."

Theme: Sincerity is sweet talk, and companionship is honeyed words.