The Villainess's Self-Cultivation

Xu Mingyao was a single-for-life academic who went straight from her bachelor's to her doctorate, but she transmigrated into a romance novel as a lovesick fool.

The male lead was the Divine Emperor, noble in status and as beautiful as jade. The female lead was descended from an ancient High God, exalted in rank and peerlessly beautiful.

The two descended to the mortal world to undergo a trial, fell into a passionate and heartrending romance, and saved the Divine Realm and the Spirit Realm along the way.

The original owner was a lowly, wretched mortal, though undeniably beautiful, who had been forced into marriage without ever truly becoming the wife. Her outrageous schemes included, but were not limited to:

Poisoning and assassinating the female lead, framing the second female lead who was infatuated with the male lead, and becoming a pawn for the Demon Realm to use against the Divine and Spirit Realms.

Luckily, she took a sword meant for the male lead and paid off some of her crimes. In the end, she was sentenced to suffer in the mortal world for all eternity.

Xu Mingyao: -_-|| What the heck...

Now that she's in a cultivation world, she has to work hard at cultivation and attain enlightenment to become an immortal. Otherwise, she'd be letting down the blessing of the transmigration gods.

As a single-for-life academic, love and studying are the least of her worries.

So she tears up her cannon-fodder script, studies hard, works diligently at cultivation, and sets off on the path to immortality.

But as she continues cultivating, something starts to feel off. Especially that guy. He's such a shameless flirt, always trying to seduce her.

Sure, he's dashing, as beautiful as an immortal, and blessed with an extraordinary bearing.

How shameful. She's actually a little tempted...

But can a woman who's been single for ten thousand years really be seduced? Absolutely not!

Men will only slow down her path to immortality!

Later, Xu Mingyao's merits are complete, and she ascends to become a High God. Memories sealed away for many years come flooding back.

It turns out her trial was one of life and death. The most important thing to her was stolen, and that person cast her down into the dust, then strutted around triumphantly atop her bones.

It is said that when the young and arrogant Emperor Longze wanted to choose a wife he fancied for himself, he scorned the woman his father had chosen. On their wedding night, he used a military campaign as an excuse to lead his troops far away beyond the heavens, and did not return home for a thousand years.

During that time, he had countless women by his side, as well as a childhood sweetheart, and even had a child. He also let his childhood sweetheart and the servants in his residence humiliate his wife.

In a fit of rage, his wife divorced him and returned to her family, never forgiving him for the rest of her life, until she died.

Xu Mingyao exclaimed that she was a role model for us all!

Emperor Longze: "..."

PS:

1. The early chapters mainly focus on the female lead cultivating and undergoing her trial, with relatively little romance.

2. The female lead and the second male lead are each other's trials of love, and they were once married. The male lead and second male lead both have to win back their wives.

Theme: There is always more to learn. Keep improving every day.