Shadows Fall Across a Thousand Boats

[The second half wasn't written well, so I don't recommend reading it.]

Everyone knows that the young sect master's wife of Tianqi Sect is little more than a lucky charm. Some even laugh that her clan doesn't care for her and her husband doesn't love her, and that she's just a guiding lamp used to find someone.

After all, what value could she possibly bring? Aside from a political marriage, and using the blood from her heart to light a lamp and guide Yu Jinzhou back when he loses his way, she is merely a helpless, unremarkable orphan with no family to rely on. Yu Jinzhou is the most extraordinary cultivator in the Four Realms and Thirteen Provinces, guarding the Spirit-Locking Abyss for all living beings.

But who could have guessed that this usually submissive guiding lamp would one day break free of her cage and flee?

Xie Ying endured ten years of a marriage in name only, and lost half her cultivation for her cold and unyielding husband. So when everyone once again put the people above all else and demanded that she go to the Spirit-Locking Abyss to find her husband, she resolutely descended the mountain and disappeared into the vast sea of humanity.

She thought she would never have anything to do with him again. Who could have known that he would come to her under a secret identity, protecting her life and winning her heart?

When all the lies were stripped away, she wanted to dissolve their marriage bond and burn their marriage contract, but he fought her with his life on the line.

"Yu Jinzhou, you're insane!" she cried furiously.

His eyes remained calm. He raised a hand, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and touched it to her pale lips. "The moment you decided to leave me, I had already gone mad."

After embarking on the path of cultivation, Yu Jinzhou vowed to protect all living beings under heaven. He had thought love had nothing to do with him.

Who could have known that a pair of eyes, a person, and a marriage contract would pull him out of the vast ocean?

He often thought back to many years ago, on Lianbai Mountain amid the swirling snow, when a woman in plain clothes with black hair looked over at him from a window with a missing panel.

What kind of eyes were they? Lonely and lost, just like his own when he slept on the streets as a child. But unlike him, there was a stubbornly burning flame in those eyes, inexplicably scorching.

After so many years, her face had gradually blurred in his memory. All that remained was the indifferent, resentful face she wore on their wedding night, silently tearing his heart to shreds.

But during the fierce battle seven years ago, when he had nearly died, someone came slowly toward him carrying a lamp, as if walking beneath a sky full of stars. Her figure looked so much like hers.

So from that moment on, no matter how many boats were gone or how many lamps had gone out, he walked toward her without hesitation.

Reader's Guide:

1. One-on-one romance, both leads have no prior sexual experience.

2. The female lead is not a delicate, sweet girl. At first, she's cold, selfish, and unsociable.

3. The opening is mystery-oriented and focuses on investigating cases.

Crossing Cloud River

Ridiculously powerful sect master and teacher vs. beautiful, strong, tragic wolfdog disciple

[Strongest Female Lead - Passionate Martial World - Mysticism and Divination - Fate and Human Will - Duty to Country and People]

Romance Synopsis:

Many years ago, Xie Yunsheng followed her master, Zhuge Tongzhen, into the palace to divine the nation's fate. She learned that the nation's fortune would last only one generation, and that a member of the Pei clan would kill the emperor and his brothers, collude with foreign powers to seize authority, and bring about the collapse of the country and the suffering of its people.

Years later, Xie Yunsheng mastered her studies and became the leader of the Qianji Sect, vowing to defend her home and country. But on his deathbed, her master asked her to take one person as her disciple.

That person was a skilled swordsman, exceptionally handsome, and highly perceptive, but his character and fate were both difficult to describe.

He was vindictive, proud, unruly, and unfathomably calculating.

Destined to be a traitor who would bring disaster to the country and its people, he was doomed to meet a miserable end.

Who could have guessed that someone like him would tell her he refused to accept his fate?

Fine. If he refused to accept his fate, then she would help him defy heaven and change it.

Who knew that changing his fate would take a lifetime?

Pei Xingchuan was born a member of the imperial family, surrounded by fine clothes and delicious food.

But a single reading of his fate changed his life completely.

For years, he was trapped in Jinyong City, shut away from the light of day and subjected to endless torment.

When he finally regained his freedom, his mother had died from grief and his father was gravely ill, beyond recovery.

The flames of revenge raged in his heart, but his father's final words suppressed all his hatred and anger.

To fulfill his father's dying wish, he schemed his way into the Qianji Sect and became a disciple of its leader, Xie Yunsheng.

At first, she didn't act like a teacher. She taught him nothing and always sent him to the front lines.

He resented her, until one day, somehow, everything changed.

She taught him swordsmanship and divination, and gave him a new life.

Her kindness as his teacher rivaled that of his parents.

He should have respected her, but a voice deep inside kept clamoring. He could suppress it no longer and finally gave in.

Plot Synopsis:

The storms of the martial world never cease, and a bloody struggle rages over an ancient tower.

Legend says the Yue Clan Treasure Tower was where craftsmen of the previous dynasty hid their treasures. It contains countless gold and jewels, as well as martial arts manuals. Some even say the fate of the dynasty lies hidden inside.

For decades, no one knew where the Yue Clan Treasure Tower was, until the Grand Princess, deeply favored by the Empress, dreamed of meeting an immortal. She summoned a painter to create the Immortal Dream Portrait, then offered a reward for anyone who could find the tower using the clues in the painting. Heroes from across the land surged forth to pursue it.

Everyone thought the painter was no threat and that the Immortal Dream Portrait could be snatched away without the slightest effort.

Who could have known that the painting would make it safely to Luoyang?

The painter was being escorted by Xie Yunsheng, the current leader of the Qianji Sect, who was well-versed in mysticism and highly skilled in martial arts.

Legend says her weapon is an umbrella called Cloud Escape. This strange and uncanny umbrella can take a life in an instant once opened.

The Immortal Dream Portrait is genuine, but the immortal dug a pit, buried himself underground, and lit seven Soul-Settling Lamps.

Unfortunately, the Judge's brush decides life and death, and even gods, immortals, and demons cannot escape it.

But the immortal is a fake. How could the Judge be real?

To find out what is true and what is false, perhaps the only way is to enter the Yue Clan Treasure Tower and seek the answer.

Theme: Hold on to hope and treasure everything