I'm the Scummy Daughter-in-Law of My Master

I was the most valued disciple under my master's tutelage.

That year, I had a lover who understood me, a good reputation in the cultivation world, and everything was going my way when I accidentally wandered into a painting.

In a single night, my circumstances took a drastic turn.

Trapped in the world inside the painting, with no hope of ever escaping, I chose to give myself to a handsome man who had entered this world just like me.

During the five years we spent inside the painting, we had a child.

But I knew I didn't belong there, and that I was destined to leave. When he asked whether I wanted to take the child, I hesitated.

He understood my answer.

Later, I returned to my sect, thinking I could pretend none of it had ever happened.

But my master was angry all the time. I couldn't understand why, and I was afraid of provoking him, until one day, after drinking himself into a stupor, he blurted out that his son had been abandoned, his grandson didn't want him around, and worst of all, his daughter-in-law had apparently used his son and then run off.

As it happened, that heartless woman was his favorite disciple: me.

A few tips for readers:

[1. The female lead puts her own inner needs first. This includes both her personal ambitions and her efforts to restore her sect to its former glory.]

[2. The blurb is in first person; the main story is in third person.]

[3. The writing has some inherent flaws, including being rather plain. Please keep that in mind before reading.]

[4. The leads reunite starting in Chapter 7. Chapters 2-6 focus more on the female lead's emotional changes and can be skipped.]

[5. There are some ensemble-cast elements, and the female lead's junior brothers and sisters will get a fair amount of page time.]

[The blurb was screenshotted and saved on July 2, 2022.]

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Here's the blurb for I, the Demon Lord, Am Putting the Three-Child Policy into Practice~

Li Qingwei had never imagined that she wasn't the Dao companion Xun Ju had chosen and bonded with. From the very beginning, she'd been nothing but a tool he was destined to sacrifice.

She fought and killed in the name of the justice he preached, never once allowed to rest as she worked to secure his position.

Meanwhile, he was rolling around in bed with another woman.

Just as she was losing all hope, she saw his sworn enemy, the Demon Lord, chasing after her. With nowhere left to run, she leaped off a cliff, believing she might get another life.

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Instead, when she woke up, she was half-dead and lying on the Demon Lord's golden silk couch. The pillow beside her seemed to have a recent indentation, as if someone had been lying there not long ago.

She heard the unreliable demon physician say, "Most likely, you hit your head and can't remember anything."

She opened her eyes in a daze.

There, beneath the bright daylight, the Demon Lord, far too handsome for his own good, gave her a charming look and bluffed, "I've been keeping watch by your bedside for ages, my wife. You're finally awake."

The other roles he'd assigned to the people around him included two more "friends" from the Valley of Evil.

A young man who'd been steeped in poison since childhood was summoned to her side. He awkwardly called her, "Mother."

At the other end, Miss Six, rumored to have used her love threads to seduce countless men and kill them in a single night, also came over and reluctantly said, "Mother."

She'd woken up not only to find the Demon Lord had become her husband, but also that she had two children who were the most wicked young people around?

Li Qingwei rolled over and lay low, keeping quiet and not exposing anyone's lies. She wanted to see how the Demon Lord would keep up his act, and how long the two children, clearly no ordinary kids, could keep their masks on.

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But as the act went on, she felt her belly growing rounder and rounder. In the end, she had to tell her two "thoughtful" children, "You'll have a little brother or sister next year."

And that damned Demon Lord finally wore a smug, delighted smile.

[Little Scene:]

Xun Ju could never believe that the woman who had once stood by him without question would marry and have a child with the man who killed his father. All she left him was a detached gaze and complete silence, as if she were looking down on him.

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