After Faking Her Death, She Became the Divine Lord's Beloved

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Blurb: [Mad, shameless, beautiful fox x resilient little wildflower]

The little immortal Fu Lan broke a divine artifact and was banished to the mortal realm to help the God Lord Ling An overcome his tribulation.

According to his fate, Ling An would be entangled with his master for ten years. His master loved someone else, and after many twists and turns, Ling An would fall into the demonic path for his master's sake.

Fu Lan had to stop him from falling into demonic cultivation.

Before all that, she had admired Ling An for a hundred years. He was noble and elegant, a sword that struck the stars, someone she could only reach in her dreams. In the mortal realm, he was her gentle and courteous senior brother, smiling like a spring breeze, placing a crabapple flower in her hair, filling a bottle with fireflies, and waiting for her among the swaying green bamboo.

Fu Lan always felt that there was some hope.

So she did everything for him without asking for anything in return. She spent her meager spiritual power carrying him out of an abyss, his body covered in blood after he'd tried to save his master. For his master's sake, she even endured seven straight days of having blood drawn from her heart, though she was always frail and afraid of pain.

Until, lost in passion, he held her in his arms and murmured tenderly, calling out his master's name.

Again and again, as if intoxicated.

It turned out that what he gave her was no more than a little charity on a whim.

At last, Fu Lan understood that some things simply couldn't be changed. And before long, Ling An really did fall into demonic cultivation for his master's sake.

With the thought of bringing good to all living beings, Fu Lan did not dodge his sword. As he stared at her in anguish, she said, "God Lord Ling An, you are a god. You should stand above the Nine Heavens and slay ten thousand demons. Wake up."

"And, thank you for saving me with your sword all those years ago."

Then she assumed a new identity and lived a peaceful life.

One day, Fu Lan heard that God Lord Ling An had returned after overcoming his tribulation.

The god who had always been spotless and pure was kneeling in the filthy, blood-soaked Purgatory of Demons. His divine bones were shattered, and his divine blood had been devoured, all to find the soul of a little immortal.

But what did that have to do with her?

Later, as Fu Lan stood in a scarlet wedding dress, about to marry Ling An's sworn enemy, stars fell from the sky and sword energy swept through the eight directions. A man lifted her veil with his long sword.

Ling An's eyes were bloodshot at the corners. He looked like a demon as he gripped her tight and rasped, "Marry me, or kill me."

Fu Lan merely glanced at him, her gaze unfamiliar. "Who are you? I don't know you."

She had forgotten him.

#When you were mortal, I paid you no mind. Now that you're a god, you can't reach me#

--Blurb written 2023.6.4, revised 2023.10.04

1. An old-school, angsty romance with a groveling arc, bittersweet and sweet. The male lead doesn't change, and he has never loved anyone else. The blurb doesn't tell the whole story. There are misunderstandings. Both leads are each other's first, and it has a happy ending.

2. The worldbuilding is entirely made up and loosely sketched.

3. The heroine has a growth arc and becomes stronger, but she won't slaughter her way across the world. This is not an empowering female-lead power fantasy!

4. All the characters have flaws. Feel free to criticize the characters, but please don't criticize the author.

5. This is the sort of story it is, so readers with extreme heroine- or hero-focused preferences may not enjoy it.

6. No need to tell me if you're dropping the book! Just click the exit button in the upper left!

--Fantasy novel: "Reborn as My Archenemy's Inner Demon"

"When a cultivator's Dao heart is unstable, an inner demon may arise. The inner demon sees what the cultivator sees, feels what the cultivator feels, and feeds on the cultivator's spiritual power. Some cultivators draw spiritual power from their inner demons. That is the path of evil and wickedness."

--Chronicles of Cultivation in the Desolate Realm, Volume Twelve

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Yue Chaoyin, the leader of the Immortal Dao, fought Xie Zheting, the leader of the Demonic Dao, for her entire life. Neither could defeat the other. In the end, all the immortal sects joined forces to kill Xie Zheting, and Yue Chaoyin died after exhausting her spiritual power.

When she opened her eyes again, she saw that she had a man's body. Her hands were covered in blood, and her limbs wouldn't obey her. When "she" drank some water, she saw in the cup the face she'd hated for most of her life, and realized that she had become Xie Zheting's inner demon.

She sensed that her own body had been taken over by someone who had transmigrated.

The transmigrator enjoyed all the admiration that should have been hers, neglected her cultivation, and didn't slay demons or vanquish evil. Instead, she was in a passionate romance with a handsome disciple who would eventually become one of Xie Zheting's subordinates. "He loves me! He's a good person! He could never fall into the demonic path!"

Yue Chaoyin's eyes rolled back, and she nearly died of rage.

At the time, Xie Zheting was still a prisoner locked away in a secret dungeon. His spiritual power was weak, and anyone could bully and torment him.

Yue Chaoyin gritted her teeth and asked Xie Zheting, "Do you want to break out? I'll help you."

She taught him orthodox cultivation techniques and helped strengthen his bones. Whenever the pain became unbearable, she would tell him, "Xie Zheting, you shouldn't die in a place like this."

Later, at an immortal sect gathering, Yue Chaoyin saw through Xie Zheting's eyes as the transmigrator gazed at a male disciple with infatuation. At the same time, Xie Zheting's long, pale fingers set down his teacup.

"Yue Chaoyin," he said, his voice cool and eerie. "You helped me strengthen my bones. I'll help you take back your body."

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Xie Zheting was born bad, with a cold and cruel nature. After being reborn, all he thought about was slaughtering every immortal sect. He never expected that, when he was at his most wretched, a voice that had once sworn to purge all evil demons from the world would speak from his sea of consciousness.

It said it would save him from danger.

Xie Zheting was suspicious and pretended not to recognize her.

Yet whenever he suffered, she was the only one by his side.

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No one ever imagined that the lowly prisoner tormented by the immortal sects would one day break into their territory and kill no one. He would let rivers of blood flow beneath him, all to seize one person: "Yue Chaoyin."

Afterward, he would tear out his inner demon and expend most of his spiritual power, all for the chance to make the woman he loved smile at him.

--Blurb written 2024.6.16

1. Extensive original worldbuilding, both leads are each other's first, happy ending.

2. The setting is unusual. For most of the early story, the heroine is in the hero's sea of consciousness. You can think of it as the two leads sharing the hero's body, though he controls it. They share all five senses.

3. Both leads are powerful. They go from loving and fighting each other to saving each other, then join forces to slaughter their way across the world.

Theme: Pursue freedom.