"Love and Pleasure" is a cultivation novel about a woman adored by everyone.
It tells the story of a heroine who, as someone irresistible to all, naturally inspires people to turn red-eyed with jealousy and want to pull her close by the waist. From the first male lead to the nth, from the great villain to minor cannon fodder, everyone wants to love and possess her. It's a restricted romance novel about love and desire.
The male characters in the book are a whole garden of wildly varied flowers:
The icy Sword Venerable, who cultivates the merciless path but falls for the heroine;
The half-demon who was a pitiful child, looked down on by everyone, but eventually rules the demon realm as its Demon Emperor;
The founding master Dao Lord, who stands at the peak of the cultivation world and is just one knock away from ascending.
And there's also the Demon Venerable Chi Ye, who was bullied by his fellow disciples when he was young and harmed by his master while he was a disciple of an immortal sect. After turning evil and falling into demonic cultivation, he becomes the greatest villain, and gives every character a bad ending.
In the original novel, executing the "demon" on the Six Paths Platform, and Chi Ye's descent into darkness, are crucial plot points.
When Dan Xun transmigrates into the story, she arrives at precisely this moment.
On the Six Paths Platform, she stands with a sword in one hand, facing a wounded young man.
The youth is pale and frail, covered in streaks of blood, and lies on the ground at her feet, barely clinging to life.
The youth is Chi Ye, and she is one of the main culprits who brought him to this state: his wicked master.
Dan Xun watches the boy's eyes gradually turn crimson, realizing that she is about to face the fate of having him turn evil, seize her sword, run her through the heart, and kill his master to prove his Dao.
At the critical moment, she twists the hand holding her sword. The blade, which should have stabbed the boy, veers away with a clang.
"A disciple's failure to learn is the master's fault. Today, I shall dig out my own spiritual core and take my disciple's punishment!"
"?!"
"No, Lady Immortal!"
The crowd's cries of shock have barely faded before Dan Xun has dug a bloody spiritual core from her dantian.
The leaders of the four great sects rise in astonishment, while the young villain on the verge of turning evil opens his crimson eyes wide.
Everyone from the immortal sects below is stunned, watching her fall like a frail little white flower in the wind, her blood staining her snow-white dress.
"Lady Immortal!" someone sobs.
"…M-Master."
Amid the cries of shock and grief, Dan Xun picks out a disbelieving, barely audible murmur and secretly curls her lips into a smile.
In a corner where no one can see, she squeezes the blood packet and shattered spiritual core she prepared in advance, making the scene look even more tragic.
From then on, she is a weak and helpless "crippled" master.
"Good disciple, you won't despise your master, will you?" His master, delicate and weak, has pale lips and coughs every few steps.
"Master dug out her spiritual core to save me and lost all her cultivation. Chi Ye will never forget this for as long as he lives." The young villain crouches down and obediently gives her a piggyback ride without a word.
Dan Xun is moved: Good disciple, sob...
Heh.
Life as a crippled master is quite pleasant, until one day she gets found out.
Before Dan Xun, who is trying to explain herself, can get a word out, a pale hand gently pinches her chin. The disciple who has always been so well-behaved around her smiles strangely.
"Master's done pretending."
Dan Xun: "??"
Before Dan Xun, whose hair is standing on end, can react, her good disciple drops the act and lets her see the original novel's great villain's vicious true nature.
He also lets her see just how far a great villain will go in defying and betraying his master.
Theme: Respect teachers and honor the Dao.