I Only Like You When You’re Wounded

As a veteran gacha player of romance games, Ling Miaoyan has always loved seeing her paper-doll characters looking battered.

Those resolute eyes and disheveled appearance stir up both her desire to protect them and her urge to play with them. She's utterly addicted and can't stop herself.

But an accident makes her transmigrate to a world of cultivation.

There are no phones here, and none of the paper-doll characters she loves. Those gorgeous, battle-worn character illustrations are gone. This place is a living hell, and she'd rather be dead.

But after going into the forest to gather herbs one day, she finds a beautiful young man lying on the ground, covered in blood and shivering. She realizes this place is practically paradise!

The cultivation world is full of beauties. They fight over resources and the path to greatness, dueling until they're covered in wounds. She can go into any forest and find a battle-worn beauty.

Ling Miaoyan smiles!

She takes the battle-worn beauties home, tends to them with care, soothes their pain, and encourages them to get back on their feet. Once they've healed, she thoughtfully sends them out of the valley to reunite with their friends, then never pesters them again.

She just paints their most beautiful likenesses, hangs them in her studio, and admires them every day. It makes her feel wonderful.

She devotes herself to these battle-worn beauties, but years later, every last one of them has suffered damage to their Dao hearts and insists that only becoming her Dao companion can soothe them.

Looking at the battlefield of love involving a Sword Saint, a Medicine Emperor, a powerful Mahayana cultivator, a Grandmaster, and more...

Ling Miaoyan bashfully rubs the back of her head, looking apologetic. "I'm sorry! We can't be together. I won't take anyone as my Dao companion."

The Sword Saint, the Medicine Emperor, the powerful Mahayana cultivator, and the Grandmaster all point to the young man nearby, who has cinnabar between his brows, blood staining his white clothes, and is leaning on his sword, swaying as if he might collapse. He looks shattered and breathtakingly beautiful.

"Then what about him?"

The beautiful young man curls his lips into a smile, wipes the blood from the corner of his mouth with his fingertip, and holds the girl tightly around the waist, his possessiveness unmistakable.

"I'm her slave!"

Two hundred years ago, his dantian was destroyed, his body left broken, and he was reduced to a cripple. The people who once held him dear shunned him. He lost everything and couldn't even take revenge. He became someone everyone despised.

Just as he was falling into hell, a pair of gentle hands lifted his face.

"You're so beautiful."

At that moment, he saw a god.

Content warnings:

The heroine likes battle-worn beauties, male or female, but loses interest once they're healed. She only admires their looks and doesn't fall in love with them.

The heroine is a scumbag without realizing it. She just thinks she's saving beautiful people, and treats them entirely like patients.

The men pursue the heroine, and some women have feelings for her that go beyond friendship.

The male lead is always battle-worn because his cultivation technique constantly burns through his lifespan.

The heroine has a golden finger and is ridiculously overpowered.

Theme: Love soothes pain and brings salvation.