How to Become a Music Cultivator

[My first novel. It's a chaotic mess, so I don't recommend reading it QAQ] Li Yin is the sole direct-line heir of the tenth generation of the Li family. Her bonded spirit artifact is a supreme-grade Heavenly-tier artifact. The day she was born, the whole Li family was overjoyed, throwing a month-long banquet. Her parents loudly proclaimed that the Li family had a promising future, and she was immediately designated as the next family head. The family's delight and her parents' joy lasted until she was five, when she entered the Qi Refining stage and officially began cultivating her bonded spirit artifact. But... she spent an entire month trying every method she could think of, yet couldn't make the bonded spirit lute produce even the faintest sound. So what if she couldn't practice the traditional music cultivator techniques? She reached Foundation Establishment at twelve, formed her Golden Core at fifteen, and at eighteen became the youngest cultivator in the history of the Five Realms to reach the Nascent Soul stage. But her father was still dissatisfied. Li Yin clenched her fists. Her father said that the way of the music cultivator required one to infuse one's art with emotion. And the most sincere emotions of all were love and familial affection. She understood. She knew how to experience the most sincere emotions in the world. She had to find a cultivation partner and have a child! It was so simple! Li Yin beat her chest and stamped her feet. If only she'd known it was this easy, why had she tortured herself with endless, painful practice on the lute? Li Yin set three requirements for her future cultivation partner. First: He had to be good-looking. Second: He had to be powerful. Third, and most important: He had to be able to have children. [Warnings]: This is a new author's first novel, so it has many shortcomings. Feedback is welcome, and thank you to all the sweethearts who like it! Please add my upcoming novel, The Villain's Puppet, to your reading list! Mu Yu transmigrates into a cultivation novel. The character she remembers best is the villainous big boss, Demon Lord Shen Huai. He's handsome, highly skilled, and a ruthless killer. His favorite thing to do is take the cultivators he has killed and turn them into puppets. But... she never thought she'd become one of his puppet army members! How did she wake up inside the body of a female corpse in Shen Huai's Puppet Hall? And not just any corpse, but one about to be made into a puppet? Help! She's only just transmigrated, and now she's about to become a puppet. What should she do? To stay alive, Mu Yu gradually figured out how to get along with Shen Huai. 1. Trust him. Don't lie to him. 2. Look after him. Don't hurt him. 3. Obey him. Don't defy him. As long as she could manage these three things, Shen Huai was practically kind, gentle, and benevolent. So Mu Yu began to: Go to great lengths to prepare delicious food for Shen Huai. Obey every one of Shen Huai's orders without question. Even use information from the original novel to actively help him find the puppet materials he wanted. All in the hope that he would voluntarily remove the puppet mark on her. But... had she been too good to Shen Huai? Otherwise, why would he gently stroke her face and smile as he asked, “Would you like to be my puppet for the rest of your life?” No! Mu Yu wept inwardly. Not at all! Wait! Why is the story nothing like she imagined? * Ever since Shen Huai became Demon Lord and took over the vast Demon Palace, not a single living creature had appeared there. Not even demons. Rumor had it that everything in the palace that could move belonged to Shen Huai: they were all puppets. Puppets were the only ones who would never betray him. Shen Huai trusted only puppets. For thousands of years, he stood in the dark, desolate, empty Demon Palace, with countless silver puppet strings dancing behind him. But one day, a lively figure suddenly burst into his world. She forcefully brought a little color to the Demon Palace. At first, he only wanted her to be his puppet for the rest of her life. But later, he changed his mind. The bond between a puppet and its master could no longer satisfy him. He wanted more... [Reading Guide] 1. Yandere male lead x sweet, gentle heroine. 2. The male lead is suspicious and controlling. 3. No angst, sweet romance, with a touch of healing. Check out my friend's novel, Men Can't Compare to Sword Practice, by Jiang Da Ye! Theme: Punish evil and promote good