Raised by the Emperor's Son, Born to the Immortal Way

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[The main story is told in third person.]

The Great Sheng Dynasty, which ruled the Central Continent for a thousand years, fell at the hands of a single child.

Born with an immortal physique and destined from birth to be Crown Prince, he seized a thousand years of the dynasty's dragon fortune the moment he was born. The great edifice collapsed in the blink of an eye.

The Rong imperial clan was wiped out.

Everyone said Rong Beichu was incredibly lucky to have survived, despite bringing about the deaths of his entire clan and the fall of his country. He was even taken in and raised in the hidden domain of the leader of the Five Continents' immortal sects.

But they didn't know that Rong Beichu, the supposedly hard-to-kill one, had left seclusion and taken an interest in a young girl at Kunwu Sect.

The girl's reputation was terrible. She was the true daughter whom the Tongyin Li clan had taken back in, and she was said to envy and frame the highborn, sect leader's chosen disciple who had taken her place. She was also said to covet the refined gentleman who had been betrothed to the false daughter since childhood.

Yet in the haunted house in the locust woods, Rong Beichu clearly saw the girl, with a different soul inside her, devour the evil ghosts hunting her and absorb them into her body.

Rong Beichu found it amusing. Using threats and promises alike, he lured the girl, who was trying hard to learn how to be a person, to his side.

After that, the worlds of humans, ghosts, and demons were swept up in turbulent change. After enduring countless dangers in the Mortal Realm, the girl united the world of ghosts in a human body.

***Female Lead's POV Version***

You are a soul-curse doll wanted by the authorities.

But after falling through a rift created by space-time magic, you transmigrate into the only living "Li Yin Maiden" among the immortal sects of the Five Continents: a miserable true daughter who spent sixteen years in a mountain village.

The good news: You have become a human with all five senses.

The bad news: You have the identity of an evil true daughter, but in this life, you want to turn over a new leaf.

Wanwan: "...Fine, then."

You can reform yourself twice over.

You also need to investigate the mystery surrounding the original body's death.

Fake daughters, fiances, love polygons, bring them all on. Let's see them show their true colors.

I can't exactly help becoming everyone's darling, can I?

When faced with demons and ghosts, I kindly advise them to turn over a new leaf, too.

I treat all my dear big brothers and sisters equally.

I'm such a good person!

But

You made one enormous mistake

Rong Beichu's motives are unclear, and his loyalties are suspect. He secretly steers you, step by step, toward the heights.

He cuts your hair, does your sect assignments, makes your daily candies, and buys the dream dress you've always wanted...

His feelings gradually change, while you remain completely oblivious, wrapped up in the warmth of being cared for like a human child.

So, by the time you finally realize that his "fatherly love" has changed into something else...

He is like the most cunning hunter in the jungle, using his natural, unpolished acting skills to quietly tempt and coax you into learning about the most beautiful feeling humans can experience.

That feeling is called "love."

Your practice partner:

Himself.

[Sweet, innocent-on-the-surface darling of all x aloof, refined, and unruly father figure]

[Ghost Realm's Lord, determined to turn over a new leaf x the self-conquering prince of a fallen kingdom]

"A guide to enjoying this story, and a plea to add it to your favorites"

1. One-on-one romance, both leads' first time, happy ending, sweet story with two strong leads.

2. A mountain of original worldbuilding. The cultivation stages are Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Deity Transformation, and Tribulation Transcendence.

3. The female lead is not the Ghost Lord at first. Her powerhouse aura gradually emerges, and she slowly turns into a sweet girl (?).

4. This novel includes everyday life as everyone's darling, Mortal Realm story arcs, role-playing, and more. Once the complete Mortal Realm arc has been posted, the author's note at the end will explain the rules of the Mortal Realm "game."

5. The blurb was revised on January 28, 2024. Cover art authorized by Fu Zei and Wuxu.

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[Pure and gullible white moonlight x world-weary, scheming aloof beauty]

[Sweet on the outside, dark on the inside x one who waits for his beloved]

After accidentally transmigrating into a xianxia novel with a bad ending, Luo Qingran becomes the original story's doomed white moonlight heroine, described in her character profile as "the Grand Secretary's daughter."

So here's the question.

The author ate the outline, the plot has fallen into a pit, and the world-ending route has already been written in advance. The white moonlight heroine's ending has long been set...

Can she still survive???

Step one to staying alive...

System: "Host, you must show off your charm and win over the four male leads of the original story, so they'll protect your life."

And they are...

A sinister prince ignored by the imperial clan, a sweet and naive rich second-generation heir from a cultivation family, a rebellious genius sword cultivator who left his clan, and a mysterious, rakish young nobleman.

Luo Qingran: "...Thanks for asking, but no. So this lousy novel is a multiple love-interest story after all."

System: "All right, if Host isn't interested in any of these four, Host can focus on winning over the fifth person."

Luo Qingran still said no: "I'm this beautiful. I'm best off on my own."

The System brought out its trump card: "Attention! Attention! If you fail to win over the fifth person, the difficulty of changing your destined death will increase by 100%!"

Luo Qingran: "…"

I'm definitely winning this man over!

Who is he?

The aloof beauty in the background of the original story, Taishi Yuruo.

How does Host plan to win him over?

Well... I'll turn into a pig first.

At the end of winter in the two hundredth year of Shencang, Beiyou was defeated and ceded territory to sue for peace.

While ill, the heir apparent Taishi Yuruo received an imperial decree and became a stand-in for the second prince of Beiyou, sent as a hostage to Tailang.

"The once-glorious Mingguang has fallen just like that!"

A ruined man. A fallen genius. An orphan.

Taishi Yuruo thought he would spend the rest of his life enduring ridicule and political scheming.

He felt nothing but weariness toward the world, drifting along its edges.

For someone who doesn't want to live, dying is truly easy.

But Taishi Yuruo never imagined that one day he would risk everything to persuade a young woman to live.

His cold, indifferent heart fell into the mortal world.

Color came to Taishi Yuruo's world.

Laughter and anger, joy and sorrow.

All were gifts.

She was the one who came after him first. She said she was the one who fell in love first.

But when she staged her death and left in misery, she left him not a single message.

During the years he searched for Luo Qingran, Taishi Yuruo repeatedly warned himself: This woman may seem naive and easy to fool, but she is glib, and not a single word she said about loving him can be trusted.

Once he caught her, he would never let her go.

But when that day finally came, Taishi Yuruo's eyes instantly turned red.

He could only bury his face in Luo Qingran's hair, his voice choked with sobs.

"Tingting, don't go..."

"Don't leave me again."

In this life, Luo Qingran entered the Dao, broke with the Dao, and changed her Dao.

All to pursue justice and make good on a promise.

She had always thought she was like duckweed on the water, destined to die an unnatural death sooner or later.

Yet no matter how flawless her secret identity was, Taishi Yuruo always recognized her at first sight.

*

Fine. Live on.

If you live, I'll live too.

Even if survival means facing death again and again.

Even if we are covered in scars.

Whoever seeks to kill me, I will make sure they die first.

Theme: The human heart is most precious when it is bright and pure.