After Flirting With Professor Chen, I Can Only Get a Happy Ending

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A thousand-year-old little love demon who feeds on desire vs. a seductive, glamorous brothel star (temporary identity). Blurb at the very end.

A gentle medical professor with a strong inner core saves an ambitious young woman who has lost her dreams and confidence.

Cheng Yihuan, 26, owner of an advertising company, online ID: Little Sweet Potato.

Chen Shoumo, 30, medical PhD, online ID: Saline Soil.

When Cheng Yihuan was a sophomore, she made a pen pal who was a first-year graduate student. Over the next two years, she fell for this older sister, whose pen name was SM. SM told her they would meet in Tannis in the fall. If Cheng still liked her then, they would have a romantic date in the maple forest.

Cheng Yihuan missed their date. The day she received her acceptance letter from Tannis Law School, her fate was completely rewritten.

Her father went to prison, and with no family to turn to and debts piling up, she gave up her studies and chose to stay in Fengcheng to save her shattered family.

Four years later.

She saw a picture of Tannis's maple forest on social media. It stirred up the regrets of her youth. From then on, the online friend called Saline Soil became the second person to make her heart flutter.

Little Sweet Potato: [Picture]

Little Sweet Potato: [See this woman? She's gorgeous, and she studied medicine just like you. She seems really impressive, too. I heard she's published several well-known papers. Universities here and abroad are all fighting to recruit her.]

Saline Soil: [I can't tell. What's so gorgeous about her?]

Later, with Cheng Yihuan pinned against a mirror, Professor Chen asked her earnestly through their reflection, "Take a good look and tell me, what's so gorgeous about her?"

The next day, Cheng Yihuan sent her a message, weak and exhausted.

Little Sweet Potato: [Are you a professor or a beast?]

Saline Soil: [I'm your SM big sister.]

Blurb 2

When Chen Shoumo was a first-year graduate student, she saw a photo on the university forum of Cheng Yihuan after winning a debate competition. She was all smiles, confident, youthful, and beautiful. Later, Chen successfully became Cheng Yihuan's pen pal.

Over two years, she made Cheng Yihuan fall for her and encouraged her to apply successfully to the graduate program at Tannis Law School. That same year, they agreed to meet during the start of the school year in Tannis.

But Cheng Yihuan never came.

During the first four years of her doctoral studies, Chen went to the maple forest every year to take a picture.

Later, the young woman who had stood her up was finally lured out by the maple forest.

Cheng Yihuan asked her online if autumn in Tannis was beautiful. Cheng Yihuan asked if heartbreak made a sound. Cheng Yihuan asked who could save her...

Although Cheng Yihuan had forgotten her SM big sister, Little Sweet Potato found Saline Soil.

Cheng Yihuan said she didn't deserve to enjoy Tannis's maple forest with her SM big sister. Cheng Yihuan said a little sweet potato planted in saline soil would never bear fruit.

Chen Shoumo was furious.

She was going to show Cheng Yihuan through her actions:

Saline soil can only grow little sweet potatoes.

A thousand-year-old little love demon who feeds on desire vs. a seductive, glamorous brothel star who loves money and lust (temporary identity)

Blurb 1:

Fan Qingci gave herself up to a brothel to gather rare treasures for a heavenly lake.

That night, she was advertised as the brothel's star, with her virginity up for sale.

Incense burned and candles flickered in her room. Dressed in sheer silk, she reclined alluringly, waiting for her wealthy patron to arrive. After a long while, there was still no sound outside. The candlelight on the table merely wavered, and a strange gust blew the bed curtains open. Before she could react, something stirred outside the window. When she moved her sleeve away from her face and looked out, she saw through the thin gauze a man standing outside in a satin robe, his back straight. But with broad shoulders and a slim waist, and hair as dark as ink, he looked nothing like the doddering old man her fellow courtesans had described.

The man suddenly turned around and reached the bedside in an instant.

Before she could react, the pink-faced man’s golden eyes flashed. She fainted before she could make out his features.

When she woke, she found him lying on his side facing her. Close enough to touch, the person had skin as white as jade and delicate features. Something seemed off. This was clearly a beautiful woman.

She later discovered that this little demon was none other than the kitten she had raised in her palace for a thousand days. While she was away from the mountain, it had escaped the divine temple. The little beast had become a lovely young woman, but it still hadn't outgrown its habit of burrowing under the covers.

After that, the woman came to her every night, offering gold and silver in exchange for her affection. During this trip to the mortal world, Fan Qingci's heart had quietly fallen for her. Just as she let go of her reservations and prepared to accept their relationship, the little demon left her waiting through thirty sleepless nights, then never appeared again.

Years passed. When they met again, the little love demon had grown into a graceful young woman, with bright, beautiful eyes. But Fan Qingci could no longer look upon her with affection.

"Qingci."

"You little beast! By seniority, you should address me as Divine Venerable. By age, I'll even allow you to call me Great-Grandma. That's already generous of me. How dare you address me like that!"

Blurb 2:

Xu Jinhuan cultivated for three hundred years in a pitch-black, sealed cave. After her mother finally allowed her to leave, she set off to seek the pleasures of the mortal world. By nightfall, she had found herself a hearty meal.

Perhaps she had eaten too much, because she fell asleep on a woman's bed. The next morning, the woman kicked her out of bed. Though she had only just entered the human world, she could understand what the woman was saying.

"I was just hungry, so I came to you for a little something to tide me over."

The woman was beautiful, but her delicate brows were drawn together and she looked fierce. "A little something? Every part of me is worth a fortune, and you call me a little something?"

"I didn't touch anything you were planning to sell."

She knew this was a brothel, and she knew what kind of business brothels did. Her mother loved to come to places like this to feed. She said the men here were lecherous and the women greedy. Their desires were the purest, and feeding on them brought the least backlash.

Her mother had said that those overwhelmed by desire during cultivation were not to be eaten. She should seek simple fare until she broke through. This woman had few distracting thoughts and was only greedy for money, making her a rare delicacy during her solitary cultivation.

Later, things changed. One particular flavor began to bring her constant backlash. She didn't understand when she was young, but eventually realized that this flavor was desire, the hardest of all to control. Her cultivation had not yet broken through, so she didn't dare disobey her mother's teachings. From then on, she stopped seeking the woman out.

Later, she tasted every pleasure the world had to offer, yet none compared to Madam Fan. On the day she broke through, she went to the brothel full of joy to find her, only to discover the building had collapsed and the place was abandoned. There was no trace of her anywhere in the city.

When they met again, she was the Dragon Maiden with the highest standing in the Divine Realm, and by age, she was a full 9,900 years older than Xu Jinhuan...

Reader's Guide: Divine Realm, Demon Realm, Mortal Realm, and Demon Realm (gods, demons, and mortals coexist peacefully)

About cultivation: Some aspects are author-created.

Theme: Sow with care and wait for a good harvest.