Conquering That Sickly Black Lotus

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Jiang Ying transmigrated.

The System wanted her to win over that gloomy, obsessive, beautiful but wicked black lotus.

She was sitting in prison, and her target was on the way to kill her.

At their first meeting, the black lotus gently wiped the mud from her face. But when she whispered in Jiang Ying's ear, she threatened to skin her alive, tear her tendons from her bones, and grind her bones to dust.

Jiang Ying trembled in fear.

To stop the black lotus from grinding her bones to dust, Jiang Ying not only jumped into every trap meant for her, and took every injury meant for her,

but also confessed her love every few days.

"I love Miss Lu."

"I fell in love with Miss Lu at first sight. I'll stay by your side through life and death!"

At some point, Lu Yunmian had grown used to Jiang Ying smiling as she asked:

"I like Miss Lu. I wonder if Miss Lu likes me a little more today?"

Love is a spark that catches in the kindling.

She was willing to give up everything, just to have Jiang Ying show her a little more love.

But one day, she learned that everything had been nothing but a deception by Jiang Ying.

A deception in which only she had fallen for real.

You clearly do love me.

Lu Yunmian furrowed her brows and buried her face in the crook of that person's neck. Her cheeks flushed, her voice trembled, and her eyes were crazed with infatuation.

"If I kill them all, will you only have eyes for me from now on?"

Amid a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, Lu Yunmian smiled and pulled her into her arms. Her eyes were full of obsessive malice, but her voice was tender to the extreme.

"Why didn't you tell me you love me today, A Ying?"

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Love's fire burns the world. Its lingering embrace cannot be forsaken.

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---My Disciple Is a High-Risk Job Too---

Lin Jingzhuo was the mighty Demon Lord, with power, cultivation, and peerless beauty. She lacked for nothing.

But somehow, the Demon Realm's supreme treasure suddenly stopped producing demonic energy. The elders said they needed to steal a celestial treasure to replenish its vitality.

Lin Jingzhuo endured humiliation and disguised herself as a human girl to infiltrate the immortal sects.

She hadn't expected that suppressing her cultivation so much would leave the ruler of an entire realm on the verge of being rejected by every master.

Just as she was in a bind, she spotted a beautiful elder in a fox-fur cloak beneath a green pine.

The beautiful elder had a pair of captivating, rippling fox eyes. Frail and pale as paper, she met Lin Jingzhuo's gaze by chance.

"You too?"

"You too?"

At last, with a beautiful master, she was no longer a disciple no one wanted.

Later, Lin Jingzhuo realized that her sickly master was incredibly troublesome.

She was too frail and sick to fight, too inarticulate to stand up for herself when bullied, had a weak stomach and could only eat food Lin Jingzhuo made, and had cold hands and feet, so only Lin Jingzhuo could warm her under the covers.

Lin Jingzhuo would bet her master couldn't last three days without her.

The Demon Realm's elders had smashed their Water Mirrors to pieces before they finally managed to contact their lord.

Lin Jingzhuo replied while stir-frying food for her master:

"Pretending to be utterly smitten with her is just part of my plan. That's enough, I've got this under control. I'm hanging up."

The Water Mirror hadn't been disconnected.

The demons heard their awe-inspiring Demon Lord pitch her voice sweetly and say, "Master, dinner's ready~"

Elder: "?"

Their dangling hearts finally gave out.

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A Demon Lord who falls for her own act and is hopelessly lovesick x a peerlessly clever, scheming, sickly beauty.

Rest assured, it will have a happy ending.

Theme: Be independent and strong.