After the Imperial Princess Awakens

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Proud, aloof, career-driven spirit-race heroine x gentle, scheming immortal who plays the pig to eat the tiger

(Arranged marriage to love x secret identity)

As the imperial princess of the spirit race, Kongtong Yue is proud and only has eyes for the immortal Wen Yao. She even exhausts her cultivation to heal his injuries!

Thinking she had won his true heart, she is instead treated coldly by Wen Yao on their wedding day.

Furious, Kongtong Yue throws down her crown and leaves! But then the demon race emerges, and her clan is wiped out as she dies.

Five hundred years later, she unexpectedly revives inside the body of a good-for-nothing cultivator and receives help from the Judge Yan Jinghuan. But why does this man's gaze grow stranger and stranger whenever he looks at her?

As a genius sword immortal, Wen Yao devotes himself to cultivation and treats his wedding to Kongtong Yue as an afterthought. Only after Kongtong Yue dies before his eyes does guilt drive him to descend to the mortal realm, establish the underworld, and exhaust himself to bring her back to life.

At first, he feels that he and Kongtong Yue are married in name only, so there's no need to acknowledge each other. Once he helps her return to the spirit realm, he will ascend to the divine realm, and they can go their separate ways.

But as they spend more time together, his heart can't help but flutter and grow uneasy around her. The memories someone secretly sealed away begin to return as well...

Short scenes:

1. After Yan Jinghuan tricks her into a kiss, Kongtong Yue flees in a panic for the first time.

When they unexpectedly meet again, Yan Jinghuan pins her in a corner, his gentle eyes lowered and his gaze burning with passion. "Why are you avoiding me, Princess?"

Kongtong Yue, embarrassed and angry: "Why did you kiss me?"

Yan Jinghuan, forthright: "Of course, because I love you."

2. After realizing she has feelings for Yan Jinghuan, Kongtong Yue calmly sends a divorce letter to Wen Yao, who is said to be in the immortal domain.

Yan Jinghuan, holding the divorce letter: "Am I cuckolding myself?"

3. When the immortals surround Kongtong Yue, Yan Jinghuan has no choice but to save her as Wen Yao. He still calls her his wife, but in the end she gives him a calm smile and says, "Please mind your manners, Immortal. We're divorced, and besides, my heart belongs to someone else."

A playful look enters his eyes. "Oh? Tell me, who is that person?"

[Reader's guide]

1. The hero has amnesia at the start and forgets the memories of loving the heroine, but after she is reborn, he still can't help falling for her.

2. His secret identity is revealed in Volume Three, and then he pursues his wife!

3. Both leads are sexually inexperienced. One-on-one romance, happy ending.

4. Some ensemble cast elements, with several side couples.

5. Monster-fighting and leveling up. The heroine really is focused on her career!

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#Adorable yet sly, lecherous cat demon x cold, devoted, straightforward righteous sword cultivator#

After a car accident, Ling Jinyou transmigrates into a male-oriented xianxia novel as a cannon-fodder villain, a cat demon. The System's mission is to create obstacles for the Dragon-Slaying Hero.

But after failing the mission again and again, she decides to give up and focus on staying alive. Then she runs into the tragic, powerful second male lead, Ran Ziyu!

Ran Ziyu is a righteous sword cultivator who hates the demon race more than anyone in the whole novel. To protect herself, Ling Jinyou has no choice but to put a curse on him.

Ling Jinyou: "Want to kill me? If you don't want to die, protect me for the rest of your life! Scared now?"

Ran Ziyu: "I'd be delighted."

Ling Jinyou: "???"

One day, an old acquaintance appears and wants to take Ling Jinyou away.

Ling Jinyou: "Ran Ziyu hates the demon race. Shouldn't I leave?"

Ran Ziyu doesn't try to talk her out of it. He simply takes off his shirt after training and washes up in the room.

Ling Jinyou stares at his sharply defined abs and the smooth lines of muscle on his arms, eyes shining and drooling.

Ran Ziyu, expressionless: "Come to think of it, were you planning to leave?"

Ling Jinyou instinctively shakes her head. "No, no. Ooh, that's hot."

Ran Ziyu nods, satisfied, and leaves.

Ling Jinyou's inner monologue: Damn it! Another day ruled by the handsome-man strategy!

Much later, Ran Ziyu defeats the male lead, completes the System's mission, and becomes the leader of the righteous path, with a bright future ahead.

Ling Jinyou doesn't want her demon identity to hold him back, so she finally decides to run away under cover of night.

But after fleeing a thousand miles, a sword aura suddenly tears through the sky. The evil demons scatter as Ran Ziyu arrives, sword in hand and murderous aura all around him. Yet he holds her gently and begs her not to leave in a trembling voice.

Ling Jinyou later hears that, that night, Ran Ziyu lost control of his lightning spirit root. Silver-purple thunder swallowed the vast night sky and nearly flattened the entire sect!

Short scene:

One day, after Ling Jinyou's identity as a member of the demon race is exposed, she says anxiously, "My identity's been exposed. I have to leave today!"

Ran Ziyu studies her soft, dewy lips thoughtfully.

She snaps, "What are you looking at?!"

He says, "I like you, and you still owe me two kisses."

Her face instantly turns red all the way to her neck. "Th-that doesn't count! And I don't like you either!"

Ran Ziyu silently steps closer, wraps an arm around her waist, and bends down to her ear. His voice is low, with an irresistible magnetism. "I didn't hear you. Say that again."

Ling Jinyou swallows hard. Her mind in a whirl, she once again loses her chance to get away.

Reader's guide: One-on-one romance, both leads are sexually inexperienced.

Theme: Take the protection of all living beings as your duty.