The Sword Sect Doesn't Keep Idlers, but Slackers Are Welcome

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After joining the Qingyun Sect, Si Jiyue gradually realizes that something seems off about it:

Her master is gentle and easygoing, as serene as a chrysanthemum. He's a delight to be around, but has no ambition whatsoever. When it comes to cultivation, he cowers; when it comes to eating, he goes all in!

Her senior brother is a young prodigy, famous throughout the land, yet wildly ambitious. He wears his plan to usurp power right on his face. His life goal is to make their hopeless sect bigger and stronger.

Her second senior brother is eccentric and always spouting things no one understands. Whenever someone mentions sword practice, he starts shouting about "science and democracy." He has the face of a rich young master, but keeps carrying a hoe into the fields to work.

Her third senior brother doesn't look like a good person, but according to the rumors, he's an honest, proper, well-behaved disciple. But one day, Si Jiyue accidentally catches him practicing the Demon Sect's martial arts!!!

Si Jiyue: This sect is doomed...

But the thing that bothers her most isn't the sect's daily chaos. It's her former fiance, who broke off their engagement so he could cultivate the Heartless Dao. He joined the Qingyun Sect too!

One day, the two run into each other. Si Jiyue speaks first. "Since our engagement ended, have you met any other lovely women?"

When Pei Ju isn't smiling, his dignified, solemn face takes on an air of divinity. He gazes straight at her and says, "...Never."

Si Jiyue scoffs. "Hmph, I've had three already. What a loser."

Pei Ju: ...?

A sharp-tongued, ambitious genius girl vs. an arrogant, conceited double-standard male lead

"No Transmigrating into This Book" blurb:

Li Chunchou suspects she's an NPC in a horror novel.

The flower-appreciation contest is held every three months, and she's won it forty times in a row. Every three months, the emperor recognizes a few more illegitimate children from among the commoners. He's more prolific than a pig. Every time the last outsider in the capital dies, exactly ten strange people appear together the next day.

Their clothes and manner of speaking are nothing like the locals', and Li Chunchou even overheard them using the word "NPC" in conversation.

They look at Li Chunchou with greedy, wary eyes.

Then, seven days later, they vanish without a word.

Bored, Li Chunchou picks at the small scar on her wrist. Years have passed, but it has never truly disappeared.

And all of this began when she found this "thing," Li Chunchou thinks, glancing at the little monster with black hair and black eyes beside her.

The youth, now a head taller than her, gives Li Chunchou a strange smile, practiced so many times that it's flawless.

Li Chunchou is certain this thing is not "human."

A beautiful, manipulative flirt vs. a monster from beyond humanity

"I Sleep Through Life's Journey" blurb

Before she quit, Yuan Qiubai's daily routine went like this: "Yes, Mr. Li." "I'll get that proposal to you right away, Mr. Li." "Here's today's schedule, Mr. Li."

Li Yihe, seriously: "Assistant Yuan, what do you think of me?"

Yuan Qiubai, expressionless: "A tiger guarding the mountains, an eagle with foresight, a wolf that knows how to fight..."

Li Yihe, satisfied: "All right, all right, I get it."

Yuan Qiubai: ... (I can't do this damn job for one more day.)

After she quits, Li Yihe grips her shoulders and says, "Qiubai, if you come back, I'll give you anything you want!"

Yuan Qiubai sits on the hospital bed and calmly replies, "Thank you, but no thanks, Xiao Li."

Li Yihe: ...?

An all-round assistant vs. a narcissistic CEO

Everyone in Nan City knows Yuan Qiubai is Li Yihe's right-hand woman, the sharpest tool in his arsenal.

Li Yihe also thinks Miss Yuan is great in every way, except she's too serious and boring.

One ordinary winter day, Yuan Qiubai knocks on the door of Li Yihe's office, then calmly hands in her resignation.

Seven full years, nearly two thousand five hundred days and nights, ended with the words "I'm sick."

Then Miss Yuan disappears.

Li Yihe searches all over Nan City like a madman, but finally finds her at the hospital where they first met.

The night before Li Yihe finds Yuan Qiubai, heavy snow falls all night. As he opens the door, the snow outside happens to snap a pine branch.

Yuan Qiubai stares blankly at the broken branch, tears streaming down her face. It is as if her own life, too, has been crushed beneath the snow.

Li Yihe watches her in a daze, belatedly realizing that in that instant, something deep inside him has also collapsed completely.

"After the Mary Sue Story Ends" blurb

I am the daughter of the Mary Sue heroine.

Mu Luxue is the legitimate eldest daughter of the Prime Minister's household, born to a noble family. She was so foolish as a child that she couldn't communicate with anyone, until she fell into a lake on a winter night shortly before her fifteenth birthday and suddenly came to her senses. Only then did everyone realize the eldest Miss Mu was a peerlessly beautiful woman who could topple kingdoms.

Mu Luxue had a wicked concubine-born stepmother and half-sister. She was taken on as a disciple by a reclusive master, opened countless shops and made a fortune, and even founded an assassin organization. A whole crowd of men loved her devotedly, and she even met my father, who loved her so deeply it tore his heart apart and swore they would be together forever, with no one else.

That's right, the story above is the legendary life of my mother, Mu Luxue.

And I am the only daughter she left behind in this world.

Unfortunately, she died before I was old enough to remember her.

As for who my real father is... I have no idea, because ever since I can remember, at least five different men have tried to get me to call them Dad.

A refined young nobleman from an aristocratic family stares at me with tears in his eyes. "Is this the kind of kid who looks grumpy but is actually sweet? She takes after me. I must be her father."

A Brocade Guard in charge of the imperial prison mends my clothes while nagging me like an old housewife. "Don't play in the river so much. It's dangerous."

The Son of Heaven in the imperial palace smiles and tempts me. "Linlin, if you call me 'Father,' I'll make you a princess, all right? I'll give Linlin a lifetime of wealth and glory."

The Ninth Prince, who has never lost a battle, always looks annoyed whenever he sees me, yet he invites me to lunch at his manor every ten days. I know he's using my resemblance to my mother to reminisce about her.

My daily life is already dramatic enough, and my handsome childhood sweetheart, who's a hopeless romantic, is secretly busy writing a story with the two of us as the main characters.

Me: ...

PS: The main story is written in third person.

Theme: Cherish life.