After the Aloof Beauty Became Everyone's Least Favorite

The complete manuscript is written, currently 110,000 words. Things are going badly, and I'm struggling to write. Note from 2024.8.27

◆◆◆Warning: If you're a reader who can't stand a non-virgin character, don't come in. There are too many potential triggers to list. The first three chapters contain a concentrated dose of major triggers, so proceed with caution! ◆◆◆

Some people can never be truly tamed, even when they are in hell.

[Young Master Ning, renowned throughout the Nine Continents, is the most beautiful person in the world. His beauty is beyond compare, inspiring obsession and longing.]

For the first thirty years of Ning Wuqi's life, everything went smoothly, giving him a lively, carefree personality. Gifted with exceptional foundations and extraordinary comprehension, he was at the top of the Talents Ranking before turning thirty.

Such a prodigy was naturally proud and unyielding.

Then, in a single day, his sect was destroyed, his cultivation crippled, and he was subjected to castration. The agile sword cultivator was bound by layers of restrictions, unable to seek death, and disciplined into becoming a fragile concubine.

For the next seventeen years, this once-beloved genius suffered every kind of humiliation.

Ning Wuqi was once a genius sword cultivator, adored by all in the cultivation world and followed by countless people.

Now Ning Wuqi is a wretched thing anyone can bully. His followers have only increased in number, though their nature has changed.

People are both obsessed with him and contemptuous of him. They covet his body, yet look down on him for his wretched fall into the dust.

The powerful senior who guided him in cultivation claimed to admire his talent, yet personally crushed his pride and cast him into the abyss.

The daughter of the revered lord who loved him repeatedly reopened his wounds and tore away his dignity.

His former admirers were overjoyed to see the moon fall from the heavens into the mortal world. They put on an act of devotion while treating him cruelly.

A friend of his master, a powerful cultivator only half a step from ascension, kept trying to find a trace of Ning Wuqi's master in him. But after his fall, his temperament had changed so much that he was no longer the Ning Wuqi of old, and the powerful cultivator always found him unpleasant.

"You are not worthy of being her disciple."

With no way to live and no way to die, Ning Wuqi forced himself to endure for seventeen years. At last, after fulfilling a long-held wish, he shattered in a single night.

[It is said that Ning Wuqi forcibly opened the Ghost City of Desperate Straits and released a hundred thousand vengeful spirits. Heaven punished him, and both his body and soul were destroyed.]

Ironically, when news of his death spread, those people all became lovesick, deluding themselves that they could bring him back to life.

The original top's crematorium arc, from his perspective

As an Immortal Venerable on the verge of ascension, Xiao Jin had only two concerns: that his family would retain its glory after his ascension, and a wager with a friend to create the most beautiful person in the world.

During an unexpected journey, he encountered a beauty rarely seen in this world. The child was an excellent prospect, surpassing countless beauties even without being polished, but that wasn't enough. He wanted the most beautiful person in the world, one who surpassed every other beauty.

And so he began a long, careful scheme.

He helped the child embark on the path of cultivation and saved him several times. The child was grateful, and whenever he saw Xiao Jin, his smile was especially sweet.

Later, when the time came to close the net, the child fell into misfortune. Xiao Jin saved him again, but this time he didn't simply turn and leave. Instead, he brought him back to the Xiao family.

The beauty was caught in his trap, and the gentle, dependable senior finally revealed his true, sinister nature. Using the cruelest methods, he crushed the child's pride and sculpted him into a beauty unparalleled beneath the heavens.

From then on, cultivators seeking the world's most beautiful person came in an endless stream. People arrived bearing treasures, all just to catch a glimpse of his beauty.

Thus, Xiao Jin acquired the resources to preserve the Xiao family's legacy, as well as the most beautiful person in the world.

Later, he fell deeper and deeper. He no longer wanted to torment the beauty and decided to become his cultivation partner, sharing the path to eternal life.

Becoming the revered lord's consort was an honor beyond the reach of most people, yet the beauty would rather have his soul scattered than forgive him.

The power of heavenly punishment was terrifying. Even someone like him, only half a step from ascension, could not escape unscathed.

He did everything in his power to save him, but the person who had once loved and depended on him never came back.

The final top's perspective

Chu Ying was a mortal with no spiritual root, yet he was emperor. Relying on the lessons in governance he had learned in modern civilization in his previous life, he ruled for over twenty years, became a wise emperor, and set out on the path of attaining sainthood through merit.

But he encountered a problem on the road to sainthood. No matter what he did, he couldn't get past that last hurdle, and he had no solution.

Until he found a gravely wounded, stunningly beautiful man.

Compared with this beauty, every beauty he had seen in either life paled in comparison.

Yet the beauty was also the most lowly eunuch in the world. The flawless jade was blemished, and he was unwilling even to face his own mutilation.

After accidentally learning of the beauty's heartbreaking past, Chu Ying suddenly realized that this man might be the breakthrough he needed to attain sainthood. So he helped him along the way.

No matter how beautiful he was, the beauty was still just a stepping stone for Chu Ying's rise to the top. At most... once he had achieved his goal, he could give the beauty a title and make him his wife.

He was ambitious, determined to carve out a bloody path to cultivation. In pursuit of his ideals, he would kill any god or Buddha who stood in his way.

At first, he kept the beauty in the palace and helped him for his own sake. Later, he helped the beauty as well as himself. After that, he fell deeper and deeper, until he could no longer think of the beauty as a tool for attaining sainthood.

Snow fell that day. The beauty stood beneath the eaves, gazing silently beyond the courtyard wall. Chu Ying followed his gaze and saw a red plum branch reaching in from outside, blooming with vivid intensity. It was full of vitality, so different from the beauty's gloomy and lifeless air.

Chu Ying's heart jolted. Suddenly, he wanted to hold the man in his arms, protect him, and help him return to where he truly belonged: the boundless world beyond.

* The top is a virgin, the bottom is not. They end up together one-on-one, and it's sort of a happy ending (at least it's not a tragedy).

* The top doesn't change. The scum top isn't redeemed; this is a crematorium arc, the kind where his ashes are scattered! He's thoroughly dead! A happy ending only becomes possible after he's reincarnated and gets a fresh start!

The original top and the final top are reincarnations of each other, sharing the same soul. The original top is a beneficiary of the oppressive ruling class in a feudal society and can't understand the suffering of the lower classes. Only after reincarnating and being exposed to modern ideas of equality does he realize what he did wrong.

* The bottom comes from a male brothel and belongs to an oppressed class. He is forced to have sex with others against his will. He has mental health issues and a deep-seated obsession. He already loved the top before his downfall, and loves him so much that he would rather drag him down to die together, so he still ends up with the top.

* Readers who are sensitive to triggers are advised not to read this. If you can't accept it, please just move on. Let's spare each other, and thank you!

* This is a low-to-mid magic cultivation world, not a traditional cultivation setting. Not everyone is evil, but the overall environment is deeply oppressive, a society where the powerful prey on the weak!

* Most of the story is angsty and oppressive. This is not a conventional crematorium arc, so if you're looking for a feel-good or sweet story, there's no need to click in and waste your time.

* The cover shows the same face in different states. It's a knife.

* Strongly devoted to the bottom. Call him your wife, ship him with anyone, but the top and bottom roles cannot be reversed.

Theme: Even in hell, keep your heart turned toward the light. Never bow to power, and never give up easily.