After Falling from the Sword World's Summit, She Gave Up

*The novel next door, The Strongest Villain's Guide to Transmigrating into a Book, is now underway. It's a story about a villain who transmigrates into the heroine of an angsty romance. The blurb is below this one. Please add it to your favorites~ I'm begging you!

[Laid-back, salty Jianghu con artist x pessimistic, world-weary beggar]

Yet more than anyone else, they wanted to live well.

Yue Li, senior sister of the Lingwu Sect and the greatest swordswoman among the twenty-four sects, was undisputedly the best in the world. She had forged herself a bizarre sword called Beyond Comprehension. Whenever anyone asked her for guidance, she would say, "I don't know where these moves come from either. They probably just pop into my head."

Of course, those humblebragging days became a distant memory after she went berserk in cultivation and was banished to the Valley of Delusion.

Now, she's just a Jianghu con artist who mooches off others and waits to die, making a living by telling fortunes.

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Lin Xiafeng was a beggar. An old beggar took him in when he was three, and by six he was fighting dogs for food. When the old beggar was beaten to death when Lin Xiafeng was ten, he inherited his broken bowl. At sixteen, the beggars' organization in Longjiang Town finally agreed to give him one street where he could beg.

Of course, those miserable days became a distant memory after his beggars' den burned to the ground.

Now all he wants is to smash his head against something and die, but he can't. That's because a Jianghu con artist named Yue Li keeps stopping him.

Not only does she stop him from killing himself, she also wants to take him on as a disciple. Lin Xiafeng thinks there's something wrong with her head.

He planned to wait for Yue Li to lose patience and give up on him, but instead he found himself looking forward to seeing her more and more each day. He even deliberately got himself covered in wounds just to see her look at him with both anger and worry. Somehow, this felt like living.

Until one day, he saw Yue Li accept money from a man in green. She said, in so many words, that she'd completed her task and could return him in one piece.

So she wasn't crazy. She was a con artist.

Warnings:

1. Because of the male lead's personality, he's mostly in the background early on, but gets more page time later.

2. Little romance, plot-focused.

3. Completely fictional! Extremely fictional!

Hope you enjoy reading~

[Upcoming novel The Strongest Villain's Guide to Transmigrating into a Book is now underway]

Blurb:

Ten thousand years ago, the Demon God perished in Fangting Continent.

Ten thousand years later, on a dark and stormy night, the Demon God woke from a deep sleep to find someone digging up his grave.

Out of politeness, he kindly warned the little girl, who was bent over digging, skinny as a rake and looking utterly miserable. "Only one thing will happen if you dig me up. And that is...

"The world will be destroyed, and all humans and gods will perish."

In other words, hurry up and bury him again.

Fu Xiang flashed eight teeth from beneath a face so dirty it was impossible to make out her features. You'd better keep your word.

The Demon God: ?

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Fu Xiang, Lord of the Sunken Abyss.

Born to be a stumbling block on the protagonists' road to success, she was the strongest villain on earth.

But after dying, she transmigrated into a storybook she'd read, becoming a hapless heroine of the same name: weak and helpless, her spiritual bones switched at birth, her identity stolen by her older sister, and her body and heart abused by the male lead.

At first, she decided to swallow her anger. After all, she was the protagonist. Surely they wouldn't actually kill her.

But she soon discovered that these righteous cultivators were crazier than she'd imagined.

Fu Xiang gradually began to wonder whether she'd even last until the male lead came crawling back to her.

So she decided to give them a real taste of villainous terror: she dug up the calamity-bringing Demon God, whose entire role in the book had been brushed aside in a single line.

But...

Why had nobody told her that, ten thousand years later, the calamity-bringing Demon God would turn into a hilarious fat bird with three yellow feathers on its head and two blobs of red rouge on its cheeks?

Demon God: I'm a golden parrot.

Fu Xiang: ...

*

The Demon God turned into a parrot

and started speaking bird language.

For instance, he actually claimed that there were no villains destined to exist in this world, only people with different positions and people who made mistakes.

Fu Xiang: Then what was I before?

The parrot pecked twice at the pastry on its plate. This Hui Xing cake tasted just as bad ten thousand years ago as it does now.

Fu Xiang: ...

She thought the torture had made her nerves fray, since she was now discussing philosophy with a parrot.

Until she uncovered the cruel truth hidden beneath a ridiculous tangle of romance, and realized the old man on Mount Fanjing, who claimed to speak for the will of Heaven, had twisted right and wrong, turning a hapless protagonist into a villain by force.

Who decided that defying Heaven was wrong?

Who agreed that she could only endure and never fight back?

She was determined to become the enemy the will of Heaven could never defeat.

The people of the new age would never know that the savior who rebuilt the rules of the Fourteen Provinces had originally wanted only to become the strongest villain.

A flexible, ruthless, softhearted, true villain x a carefree, doting, fake Demon God

Theme: Live positively and keep moving forward.