Taming My Nemesis

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Hey, everyone, this story will update irregularly (I'm actually stockpiling chapters)! Updates will be slow, but I promise it will be finished!

I may make minor revisions from time to time.

[Spoiled and passionate but cold-hearted vs. emotionally steady and shamelessly clingy]

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Mian Yuan had fought her way through thorns and hardship all her life to become the Demon Venerable. She thought she had finally defeated her father and brother and could avenge her mother.

Who could have known that just three days after taking the throne, her lifelong nemesis would knock her from it with a single sword strike, leaving her a complete outcast.

Her marrow was cleansed with Demon-Suppressing Blood, and her Profound Heaven Bone was ripped out while she was alive. She died at the hands of Dao Lord Jiang Cizhi of the Void-Slaying Path.

When she awoke from a nightmare, she learned she was the villain in a book.

Mian Yuan didn't back down. She decided to march straight up to Jiang Cizhi and take him on.

But when she actually met him, she discovered things weren't quite as she had imagined.

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No matter what, she still killed him, putting an end to the great threat in her heart.

Mian Yuan was very pleased with her own decisiveness. She didn't feel as though she was missing anything, though if she had to name something, it might be that she was having trouble falling asleep.

Clearly, that wasn't anything important.

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After Jiang Cizhi died, the System said it was leaving too.

Mian Yuan wanted it to stay. She said the scenery in the Profound Heaven Realm was beautiful, and she could take it around to see it all.

The System said, "Mountains that endure for ten thousand ages are no better than roses that vanish in an instant, Yuan Yuan."

Mian Yuan said, "I don't know what a rose is."

"I don't know either, but someone once trained me to say this." The AI System smiled. "He said a rose was every moment we spent together: you loving your mother, you hating my coldness, you saying you'd find me in your next life too and make me pay, and then falling in love with me."

"Love isn't forgiveness," Mian Yuan objected.

"But love is a capacity," the System's electronic voice flowed through a hiss of static. "It proves you still have hope for this world. You can, and should, live on and shine because of it. Yuan Yuan."

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Reader's Guide:

1. A sweet yet bittersweet tale of mutual redemption. The leads are at odds in all sorts of ways, and the heroine is slow to recognize her feelings.

2. Due to the plot setup, the marriage-first-love-later and rekindled-love arcs take place in the middle and latter parts of the story.

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Coming soon: I Mistook a Madman for a Stand-In

A wife-chasing redemption story + male stand-in romance

Innocent vs. madman.

An innocent woman is so audacious that she dares to mistake a madman for a stand-in.

Synopsis:

Shen Lizhi lived by the East Sea. She had a gentle, handsome husband named A Yan.

A Yan was a little simple-minded and couldn't go out to earn money.

To make a better life for the two of them, she became the hardest-working fisherwoman in the East Sea fishing village, going out early and returning late almost every day.

But A Yan couldn't bear to see her working so hard, and repeatedly begged to go out to sea in her place.

Before long, he was the one leaving early and coming home late.

She thought that although they lived in poverty, they loved each other so deeply.

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On New Year's Eve, demons invaded, and A Yan died.

Shen Lizhi wept all night.

The next day, carrying the sachet he had loved most, she set out for Lingxing Mountain, a great immortal sect. She endured countless near-death ordeals, all to find the most powerful cultivator in the world and ask him to avenge A Yan.

At last, she found him.

But the moment she knelt and begged for help, he sliced off a lock of her hair with his sword.

With a face identical to A Yan's, he casually stepped on the sachet. "What sort of demon are you? So ugly and weak, yet you dare to trespass on Lingxing Mountain alone?"

Only then did Shen Lizhi realize that she wasn't human, but a useless little demon.

And he, Ye Zhuyan, was the youngest Sect Master of Lingxing Sect. He only had to kill... 999 more demons to reach the Tribulation Transcendence stage, one step away from ascension, and explore the mysteries of shattering the void.

Gathering up her fallen hair, Shen Lizhi finally understood that the gentle moonlight she had cherished could never shine on her again.

2. Shen Lizhi and a group of demons were put to work at Lingxing Mountain and ordered to mend their ways and start over as demons.

She became an ordinary, busy shadow on Lingxing Mountain.

Her only dealings with Ye Zhuyan were serving as a punching bag, doing hard labor, and filling out the numbers.

Unexpectedly, that day a heavenly bolt of lightning struck, aiming straight for Ye Zhuyan's life.

Shen Lizhi gave her life to save him. The dark lightning pierced her heart, killing her on the spot and annihilating her soul.

Yet Ye Zhuyan looked at her shattered body and smiled indifferently. "I hate fools most of all. Good riddance."

Shen Lizhi let go of everything. Her boat had already passed a thousand mountains.

When she awoke again, the Demon Venerable was prostrate before her, respectfully saying, "We welcome the Demon God back to her throne. May I ask, my lord, did you find someone in this world who looks most like Mr. Lin Zhiqing during your journey?"

"I did. His eyes are the most alike." Shen Lizhi's lips curled up. "But a substitute is just a substitute. Once I'm bored of him, naturally I'll discard him."

So there was another person who was her true love all along.

Good, good. She only had to gouge out his eyes.

Shen Lizhi breathed a sigh of relief.

Synopsis dated October 26, 2023, screenshot saved.

Theme: Love is like the morning sun.