After Losing Her Memory, My Nemesis Said I Used and Abandoned Her

[Main story complete, bonus chapters in progress]

The original novel, Record of Ascending to Immortality, tells the story of Jiang Qinghong, the heroine, who rises from humble beginnings to become a peerless Sword Venerable.

Her fellow disciple Yan Qiushi, the major villain and foil to the heroine, also comes from humble beginnings, but is narrow-minded and unable to tolerate others.

She enters the immortal sect as a child to cultivate, later falls into demonic cultivation and leaves the sect, becoming enemies with her former fellow disciples. Her ruthless methods match her breathtaking beauty.

She is a universally acknowledged villain in the cultivation world, an ungrateful wretch whose crimes are too numerous to count.

In the end, this murderous fiend and major villain dies at the hands of the righteous sects. After years of wreaking havoc in the cultivation world, not even her corpse is left behind.

As luck would have it, Yan Qiushi transmigrates into the body of this villain.

Fortunately, she’s been reborn as a child, so there’s still time to change things.

The future Sword Venerable is still a tiny, chubby bundle of white fluff, so short she has to jump just to reach Yan Qiushi’s knees.

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The plot still leads to the major villain being surrounded and killed. In the end, the villain dies by the heroine’s sword.

But Yan Qiushi refuses to accept that fate.

Yan Qiushi chooses to blow up her core.

What she doesn’t expect is that Jiang Qinghong doesn’t leave.

A hundred years later, somewhere, the Demon Lord Yan Qiushi, whose corpse was never found, crouches in a courtyard, fretting over some little seedlings.

The great righteous cultivator next door is crouching there too, fretting.

She has lost her memory and will only cling to Yan Qiushi.

Jiang Qinghong: “Wife, this vegetable is wilting.”

Yan Qiushi: “That’s a medicinal herb, not a vegetable. I’ll let it slide that you can’t tell the difference, but there’s something I need to clear up. Why am I your wife?”

Jiang Qinghong: “You saved my life, and I have nothing to repay you with. I have no possessions, so I’ll repay you with myself.”

Yan Qiushi falls silent, strategically.

Jiang Qinghong continues, stammering: “Are you going to… abandon me after taking advantage of me?”

Yan Qiushi: “.”

Jiang Qinghong falls silent too, staring straight at Yan Qiushi and mumbling something about wanting a kiss.

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Yan Qiushi has kissed and hugged her. Surely even a heart of steel would melt into tenderness by now. She’s ready to quit being the Demon Lord for good and settle down with her wife, her spirit pet, and a warm bed.

But the rival who calls her “wife” all day long gets her memories back.

The sweet, gentle wife who used to cling to her sleeve regains her identity and becomes the cold, imposing Sword Venerable again.

Seeing that she can’t make Jiang Qinghong stay, Yan Qiushi lets her go and allows the moon to return to the sky, leaving herself alone once more.

She doesn’t want to get involved, but trouble finds her anyway. The Sword Venerable, who had just walked away so easily, abducts her at a banquet.

In a dim room, her former enemy curls up in her arms. The hand that wields a sword so steadily clutches her lapel and trembles.

Yan Qiushi looks completely innocent, though her hands are anything but. “Sect Leader Jiang, what’s wrong?”

Jiang Qinghong’s eyes are red at the corners. “You caused this. You fix it.”

Yan Qiushi bites the tip of her ear. “Then beg me.”

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1. Yan Qiushi, a Demon Lord who transmigrates into a book and wants to retire x Jiang Qinghong, an amnesiac Sword Venerable

2. It starts with blowing up her core. Basically, a cultivation-world two-hander.

3. Not a farming story. [Note from 23.02.05] Revised on [26.01.15]

Cultivation stages: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Spirit Severing, Void Refining, Body Integration, Mahayana, and Tribulation Transcendence.

A preview of my next book, I’ll Kidnap the World-Destroying Villainess as My Wife [Quick Transmigration]

I’ve revised the blurb, but the core story is unchanged.

To save enough for tuition, Chu Qing, from a remote planet, agrees to join the Fantasy Realm Project and enter a virtual world for an assessment.

The guide System says: “Isn’t the whole point of a beautiful, strong, tragic character to tear away everything good? The more tragic they are, the more beautiful they become.”

Then you meet a villainess drenched in blood.

The villainess has wreaked havoc and caused the world to collapse. You need to fix the damage and keep the instance running.

The rescue System sets up a stall: “Come on, come on! Tragic, beautiful, powerful villainesses, all on sale! This coughing-up-blood, deposed crown princess is yours; this blind, battle-scarred major general is yours; this universally despised real heiress is yours; and this sickly-sweet zombie queen is yours too…”

Chu Qing: “…Wait, what?!”

The System shakes its head and pats her shoulder. “Don’t be shy. Take them all. They’re all yours.”

* Bankrupt heiress top x old-money aunt bottom

After her family goes bankrupt overnight, a spoiled rich girl who refuses to suffer remembers the older girl who lived next door when she was young. She deliberately goes to knock on the older girl’s manor door in the pouring rain.

She calls her “Big Sis” every day, sweet-talking her until she’s over the moon. She goes from coaxing her at the office to coaxing her at home, from the desk to the bed, and the villainess’s corruption meter plummets.

Just as she and the aunt are finally getting along sweetly and the mission is almost complete, the heroine can’t stand watching the villainess Bian Xu get fooled any longer. She produces evidence to “persuade” the aunt to break up with Chu Qing.

A familiar voice plays from the recorder. Every word sounds so familiar, like the things she used to hear when they were whispering intimately. Back then, though, they were in the heat of passion, and every word was moving.

“Her? You have no idea how boring she is. She’s like a block of wood. You have to tell her what to do before she’ll move.”

“If I lift a finger, she’ll come running. Want to bet?”

“If she weren’t rich, I’d never put up with sharing a bed with her. She’s so stiff, with no fun in her life at all.”

Bian Xu’s expression gradually goes numb. She seems to be listening, but her soul seems to have left her body.

The heroine looks righteous. “As your old classmate, I can’t just watch you keep getting deceived.”

Chu Qing, pinching her philtrum: When did I ever say that?!

She wants to snatch the recorder and smash it to pieces.

System: “But you really did say all that. What a mess you’ve made.”

Chu Qing: “…” What a mess!

* Substitute bride Guide x battle-scarred Sentinel major general

Born into a family of scientists on Blue Star, she is determined to contribute to her family and earn her parents’ love. She agrees without hesitation to take her older sister’s place as the bride of the major villain, Bian Xu.

Going by the logic of “I’m already here,” Chu Qing pulls a few stunts, and the villainess Bian Xu stops thinking about destroying the world all day long. Now she wants to kiss and cuddle.

But the older sister she replaced says, “Aren’t you worried I’ll tell her that you didn’t marry her because you love her, but only to get her blood for your research?”

“What does that have to do with you?” Chu Qing says with a cold laugh, but then she feels a chill down her back and turns around.

Bian Xu is standing there, her gaze calm and empty. She has obviously heard everything Chu Qing just said.

Chu Qing: “…”

The System frantically warns its Host: Corruption meter going up, up, up! Take action immediately!

Chu Qing, pinching her philtrum: That woman could blow up the entire Alliance even with a broken leg! How am I supposed to fix this?!

Why bother fixing it? Pack up and get ready to die.

* Self-preserving top x yandere zombie queen

When the apocalypse begins and the zombie hordes attack, her friends shove Bian Xu into the crowd of zombies to save themselves. They watch as she disappears beneath the horde, then get taken to a base and protected as survivors.

Betrayed by the friends she trusted most, Bian Xu eventually becomes a cold-blooded zombie queen who delights in destroying human bases and rules over every survivor with her followers.

Before Bian Xu becomes the zombie queen, Chu Qing, widely known at the base as the most cowardly person alive, voluntarily leaves the base. She finds Bian Xu wandering outside the city day and night and takes her in.

She still raises her into a zombie queen, only to end up being kept by her instead.

Facing the zombie queen’s possessiveness, Chu Qing says with practiced ease, “Baby, hurry up and get better. I promise I’ll only look at you from now on.”

A wealthy-family story: an aunt tricked into marriage

A school story: a real heiress everyone hates

A palace story: a deposed crown princess whose rebellion failed

An entertainment-industry story: an award-winning actress used as a marketing tool, then abandoned

An apocalypse story: a yandere betrayed by her friends

A substitute-bride story: a political marriage arranged for pheromones

An ancient story: a mermaid lured into a trap

A story of traveling from ancient times to the present: she is a sorrowful, ghostly woman

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1. Chu Qing x Bian Xu

Theme: The highest goodness is like water