The Demonic Sect's Mistress

My next novel is Nobody Told Me My Fellow Transmigrator Was the Villain! If you're interested, please add it to your reading list! Synopsis: The Shen family's daughter was raised in luxury from childhood, doted on by maids and servants. She was carefully taught music, chess, calligraphy, painting, household management, and bookkeeping. Although her family had a lot of rules and her tutors were rather strict, Shen Ruyu always thought it was because the Shen family upheld a rigorous household tradition. That was until her eldest sister married a salt merchant over forty as his second wife, while her second sister was sent to her uncle's superior's residence as his third concubine. And she was about to turn sixteen... Her maid said the martial world had been unsettled lately, and many martial artists carrying swords had arrived in Linzhou. Shen Ruyu wasn't quite sure what a martial artist was. Did it mean bodyguards, martial arts instructors, bandits, or horse thieves? Until her father, seeking protection, married her off to the Demon Cult on Lone Goose Mountain. On the way to the wedding, dozens of black-clad men blocked the road and tried to kill them. The Demon Cult's leader, Luo Shu, drew his sword, its cold light flashing as blood painted red plum blossoms. For the first time, Shen Ruyu learned what the martial world was, what it meant for a sword's cold light to shine across nineteen continents, and what the Demon Cult was. But this Demon Cult seemed rather different from the stories. A new disciple, faced with only half a bowl of dry rice, had to go into the woods and hunt a rabbit to supplement his meal. A hall master, famous far and wide, returned to his room at night clutching a new outfit slashed by his opponent, his face full of anguish. Seeing the mouse hole in the empty granary, the Left Protector flew into a rage and smashed a wall with one palm, only to be beaten by the Right Protector and sent fleeing with his head in his hands. And the leader, rumored to be cold, cruel, and vicious, guiltily pushed a stack of account books toward her. "I hear that, according to the rules for official's daughters, the wife manages the family property." The books showed fields and land, shops and merchant caravans, yet the accounts were deep in the red and spending exceeded income. The spirit of Shen Ruyu, household matriarch, blazed to life. My business must not lose money! Upcoming Novel 1: Nobody Told Me My Fellow Transmigrator Was the Villain! Shen Yanhuai transmigrated, and knew she would probably never return home. The only thing that could occasionally ease her homesickness was the extraordinary luck of meeting a fellow countryman after transmigrating. At first, Yanhuai secretly watched her fellow countryman's rise to success, figuring that if she couldn't get close, she could at least watch from afar. But after getting to know him, she discovered that not only did they share the same interests, he was also kindhearted and good-tempered. Meeting a kindred spirit like this in another world was a tremendous stroke of luck for them both. Things started to go a little wrong after her fellow countryman became her husband, when Yanhuai ran into some of his friends at a restaurant. Wait, weren't their names a little too familiar? Not only did his friends' names ring a bell, his alias was even more famous to Yanhuai. What do I do?! I thought we had both transmigrated, but it turns out I transmigrated into a book. I thought he was an adorable little kitten, only to discover he was a villain out there, the kind who'd kill people and start a rebellion... Most importantly, this villain in the book is rumored to have killed his wife! Upcoming Novel 2: My Strategist Is My Princess, and Mine Alone The young marquis of the Zhongwu Marquis household is a notorious playboy throughout Andu, a handsome gentleman adored by the dancers at the Red Sleeve House, the most mysterious strategist among the Sixth Prince's advisers, known as Mr. Qinghong, and a beautiful woman who has worn men's clothes for eighteen years. Well, beautiful, certainly, but perhaps not quite so delicate. Watching his own princess consort dance with a long saber, its sound like wind and thunder, the Sixth Prince rubbed his temples in frustration. How on earth had things ended up like this? How had his closest friend, his trusted strategist, become his princess consort? With a father who favored his stepmother and half-brothers and spent years stationed at the border, everyone thought the young marquis, Luo Ling, would have to fight hard to secure the title. But she wasn't scheming for the mere title of Marquis of Zhen'an. She was scheming for the realm, for the merit of helping a new emperor ascend the throne. The Sixth Prince, gentle and refined on the surface but ambitious beneath, was the lord she had chosen to serve. But things took an unexpected turn. The secret that should have gone with her to the grave, that she was a woman, was exposed by her second younger sister, who had been acting strangely ever since falling into the water. Faced with the crime of deceiving the emperor or marrying into the imperial family, she naturally chose to save her own life. The one small mercy was that the man she had to marry was the Sixth Prince. Going from trusted strategist to princess consort didn't seem so bad. Theme: Make your own way forward.