My Archenemy Fell for Me Because of Our Kid

It is common knowledge in the cultivation world that Ming Shu, the Sword Sect's eldest senior sister, is stunningly beautiful, but rigid and severe, a beauty as wooden as a doll.

As a wooden beauty through and through, Ming Shu has to uphold her sect's honor by facing down challenges from disciples of other sects, and act as her disciples' relationship counselor: helping her junior sister, who got strung along by a woman, find love again, and helping her junior brother, whose heart and money were swindled by a cross-dressing pervert, get justice.

At night, she also has to help her lovesick master write the Thirty-Six Strategies for Winning Back His Wife.

She diligently carries out her duties every day, keeping up her image.

But no one knows that the unsmiling eldest senior sister secretly sneaks down the mountain every night to buy sweets, then hides in her room to eat them.

Few people know, either, that Ming Shu rose above the other inner disciples to claim the throne of the Sword Sect's eldest senior sister thanks to her bargaining skills, honed in her past life through three hundred rounds of haggling with market aunties. She was unstoppable, sweeping through the Pill Sect's disciples and saving her own sect's disciples countless spirit stones.

Then a junior brother joined the Pill Sect. Stingy and sharp-tongued, he wouldn't part with a single coin. The Sword Sect's expenses skyrocketed, everyone grumbled, and Ming Shu's position as eldest senior sister was suddenly in jeopardy.

Worse still, one day her sworn rival caught her sneaking sweets, and her carefully maintained image nearly crumbled.

With old and new grudges piling up, Ming Shu secretly resolved to kill her rival in a secret realm and be rid of him for good.

The two fought. During a break, her rival offered her a sweet cake. Unable to resist the temptation, she took it.

They were both drugged, so they cultivated together.

The second time, they were chased by a powerful demon beast and ran for their lives. After surviving the ordeal, her rival offered her sweet wine again.

Only an idiot would use the same trick twice.

So she happily took it, and they were both drugged again.

The third time...

The past was too embarrassing to look back on, but Ming Shu wasn't someone who cared much about her virtue.

Then, three months later, Ming Shu discovered she was pregnant with her rival's child.

Ming Shu: ?

Asking online: Would it be bad for the child if I keep the baby and ditch the father?

The Phoenix Clan has always had few descendants, and no child had been born among them for decades.

Under everyone's watchful eyes, the young prince Ning Zhuo left the clan with the task of restoring the Phoenix Clan and continuing its bloodline.

The clan elders wept with joy and packed him plenty of Phoenix Clan specialties.

It wasn't until he got together with a female cultivator he couldn't stand that he realized something was off about the specialties.

So he threw away the sweet cakes, the sweet wine...

Only to discover that the clan elders had drugged everything they gave him.

Ning Zhuo: ?

He'd miscalculated!

As the youngest in the Phoenix Clan, yet the first to have a child, Ning Zhuo was immensely proud. He no longer even feared his older brothers like he used to.

Until everyone started telling him that Phoenix Clan descendants couldn't be allowed to grow up outside the clan.

So, miserable as he was, he set off to win back his wife and claim his child.

A bewitching wooden beauty (fake), a serious sweets addict (real) × a haughty, stingy junior brother from the Pill Sect (fake), the lowest-ranking member of the family and a bald young prince of the Phoenix Clan (real)

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After working herself to death from overtime, office worker Yan Chi transmigrated into a female-led cultivation novel as the wicked villainess who was in love with the heroine.

That's right, in love with the heroine, not the hero.

The wicked villainess is the Demon Realm's female Demon Venerable. She's powerful and rich, but a hopeless romantic.

She pursues the heroine ostentatiously, devotedly acting as her lapdog.

But a romance between two women can never have a happy ending, and they can't have children either, which means the Demon Realm will have no successor.

The Demon Realm's elders were frantic. After sending handsome men and trying drugs to no avail, they secretly decided to kill her and sent her to the afterlife with a cup of poisoned wine.

Yan Chi: ?

To stay alive, she has to flirt her way through the entire cultivation world, passing through a sea of men without looking back and becoming a heartless playboy, so everyone knows she's changed her ways and only likes men from now on.

As it happens, the cultivation world is currently obsessed with romances between Buddhist monks and demons, humans and monsters, and masters and disciples.

Yan Chi decides to start with a monk-demon romance.

The Buddhist Sect's holy son is calm and composed. She donates a fortune to renovate the whole sect and restore its golden statues, successfully earning a place as an honored guest and getting close to him.

The master of the Heartless Sect entered the Heartless Path through killing. Cold and unfeeling, he's a renowned beauty beyond anyone's reach in the cultivation world.

But Yan Chi knows that the aloof sect master is actually a fluffy fox spirit. So she splashes out spirit stones and offers a fortune for a rooster, all just to make him smile, successfully securing a place in the Heartless Sect.

The Hehuan Sect's Daoist Venerable Qing Feng is dashing and charming, and has topped the cultivation world's list of handsome men for years.

Yan Chi brings her money into the sect and becomes a disciple under Daoist Venerable Qing Feng, ready for a tragic, passionate master-disciple romance.

Later, rumors spread through the cultivation world that Demon Venerable Yan Chi has fallen for someone new, and is madly in love with Pei Jin Zhi, the Sword Venerable's only disciple. She even follows him relentlessly when he takes on stand-in work for the various sects.

The key point is that the Sword Venerable's disciple is a man.

The Demon Realm's elders wept tears of joy. That very night, they went to the Sword Sect with betrothal gifts and a fortune to ask for his hand.

Yan Chi: ? So the Buddhist Sect's holy son, the Heartless Sect's master, and Daoist Venerable Qing Feng of the Hehuan Sect are all Pei Jin Zhi?

She's still a lovesick lapdog, just devoted to someone else?

This is absolutely ridiculous.

Pei Jin Zhi was born with a sword bone. He's a once-in-a-century prodigy and the next heir to the title of Sword Venerable.

But he was born at the wrong time.

The Sword Sect has exhausted its resources and is growing poorer by the day, while his master, Sword Venerable Jing Yuan, is combative and quick to anger, with an enormous debt in spirit stones.

To ease his financial troubles, he secretly started working as a stand-in, taking the place of cultivators in the cultivation world who were caught up in love-after-loss romances, angsty love stories, and tales of belatedly realizing they loved her, so they could pursue their true loves without worry.

But no matter what identity he takes on, there's always a rich female cultivator following him around, openly and secretly throwing spirit stones at him to get close.

Countless times, he wanted to tell her outright, "There's no need. If you've got money, just give it to me. I'll gladly offer myself in return."

But his professional ethics held him back.

Later, his identity was exposed, and rumors spread through the cultivation world that she was infatuated with him.

He was overjoyed. At last, he could cling to a rich patron and escape the Sword Sect's hard times.

Theme: May all our efforts be rewarded.