A Guide to Taming the Gods

A divine male lead x a demonic female lead [one-way shared sensations, blasphemy, contract romance]

Xiao Cong was the most insignificant onion spirit in the Nine Heavens, bullied by everyone and as lowly as dust.

Until an accident bound her to a contract of "shared sensations."

She had no idea she had made a contract with someone else. All she knew was that ever since she met one particular person, she had fallen into scorching, sensual dreams every night.

In those dreams, their skin touched and their fingers intertwined. The bone-deep rapture and surrender felt so real that she trembled.

Then the truth was ripped open in all its bloody horror.

The one who met her in bed night after night, whose breath mingled with hers in dreams, was none other than the merciless Divine Venerable above the Nine Heavens, who had forsaken all seven emotions and six desires and commanded the laws of heaven and earth.

He had taken the form of an ordinary immortal and stayed by her side every day, coolly watching her fall in love, using their contract to measure her sincerity, and manipulating her as he pleased.

When she learned the truth, she wanted to walk away, but fate drove her into a dead end.

Her demonic bones awakened, turning her into a fiend hunted by all three realms.

At the Demon-Slaying Platform, just as countless swords were about to pierce her heart, the one who came was not the man she loved, there to save her, but the lofty god himself, striking her with a cold, merciless palm.

At last, she understood. Gods had no hearts, and the divide between gods and demons was impassable.

She was tired. She was sick of this pointless struggle.

In the midst of battle, the girl suddenly stopped fighting. Facing the god's icy gaze, she smiled and swung her blade, cutting out her own demonic heart before the eyes of all three realms!

Their contract bound them together, and bone-deep agony shot through the god's chest in an instant.

Amid the bloody rain that shook the Nine Heavens, she took the still-beating, scorching heart and slammed it against the god's chest, whose heart had been frozen for ten thousand years.

"From now on, you keep your laws of heaven and earth, and I'll follow my own path."

With a gentle wave of her hand, the girl resolutely leaped into the abyss of no return.

Above the abyss, the god, who had always been free of sorrow and joy, clutched his chest. As the demonic heart pounded wildly and the shared sensations brought him unbearable pain, his eyes nearly burst from their sockets. He spat out a mouthful of scorching blood and went completely mad.

Only five years passed before the Heavenly Dao collapsed and the Demon Venerable appeared.

The lowly onion spirit of the past now strode through karmic flames, her sword pointed at the highest heavens.

She looked at the god who had fallen from his divine pedestal and was willing to crush his pride just to make her look down at him.

The god reduced to a prisoner at her feet. How amusing!

Bored, she lifted his chin. "You can call me Demon Lord."

"Or... call me Master."

Reader's Guide:

1. I'm writing a strong female lead who grows over time. I've revised the blurb several times, but still feel it can't cover the whole story, so this is the best I can do (I hate how useless I am).

1. I'm extremely partial to melodrama, and my tastes are all over the place, so I've thrown this whole potpourri together. It includes the aloof beauty falling from her pedestal, past-life amnesia, a light ensemble cast, a little traveling, a groveling pursuit of a wife, two strong leads, a coming-of-age arc, and maybe a little competition for the female lead? If none of that comes through, just pretend I never said it, sob sob sob.

2. The heroine has a full name. I swear I'm going to reveal it later. I guess you could call this a comeback story: she's a commoner making her way up, so she's an onion at the beginning. (I truly, truly love the heroine I've created.)

3. The plot and romance both develop slowly. The male and female leads can't just fall in love with each other all at once.

4. The story is divided into volumes. Volume Two begins in Chapter 89 and follows a bewitching, flirtatious woman x a genius sword cultivator. Its story can be read independently of what comes before and after, so feel free to jump straight in if you like seductive characters.

Theme: Each of us is the main character of our own life.