My Arch-Enemy Can't Possibly Die Like This

Teng Xiang had slept beneath the sea for two hundred years. When she awoke, she had forgotten everything. She remembered only one nemesis, a man named Chen Suxue. Just thinking of him made her blood boil. She had to find him, force him to tell her who she was, and then kill him. It was raining the day she finally found Chen Suxue. Someone pointed to a grave and told her he had been dead for two hundred years. "Daoist Lord Guiheng was the greatest swordsman of his age. He spent his life slaying demons and saving the world. Every year on the anniversary of his death, countless people climb the mountain to pay their respects. Have you come to pay your respects too?" Teng Xiang snapped, "Who said I came to pay my respects? Don't flatter yourself." How could her nemesis have died just like that? She practiced a forbidden technique to reverse time. She would go back two hundred years. But the technique went wrong, and she returned to a time three hundred years in the past. At least she still found Chen Suxue. The day they finally met, she looked at him and couldn't control herself. She snapped his neck with her bare hands. Too bad he didn't die. . Chen Suxue: Even though Teng Xiang is arrogant, domineering, mean, and as venomous as a poisoned blade, and she's killed me three times in a row, I was lucky enough to survive every time. I think something is bound to happen between us. A foul-tempered, sharp-tongued, tsundere heroine X a scheming, love-struck flirt of a male lead Original title: Teng Xiang Reader's guide: 1. My own take on the setting, including the world and cultivation ranks. 2. Romance, everyday life, boss fights, and a relationship-focused story. It's not long, probably under 200,000 words. 3. Neither lead is perfect. The heroine is always trying to kill the hero and has done so many times, and the hero isn't a good person either. 4. Slow burn, slow burn, slow burn, with some flashbacks. 5. Plain writing, plain writing, plain writing! Upcoming novel: She Can't Really Want to Kill Me Sixteen-year-old Kui Xi transmigrated with a body afflicted by congenital heart disease into a cultivation world that defied every scientific principle. Danger lurked everywhere. On her first day after transmigrating, she ran into a green-faced, fanged ghost. Her heart condition flared up, and she fainted in tears. Life was hard for Kui Xi every day after that. The medicine she'd brought with her was almost gone, and she thought she would die in this strange, frightening world. Then, just when all seemed lost, she met a good person. He was a cultivator named Wen Ruyu, young, gentle, and quiet, with a shy nature and little to say. But he saved her and fed her a pill, making her nearly stopped heart beat again. Adrift in this world, she could only seek his protection under the pretense of repaying him, and try to survive. She began clumsily practicing cultivation. He never mocked her for being slow, and always took time to guide her. Though he didn't have much money, he spent it on clothes for her so she could fit in. When they traveled and trained, he kept her behind him and never let anyone bully her. Kui Xi also discovered that she had an ability no one else possessed: she could see people's souls. When Wen Ruyu found out, he smiled faintly and said, "That's wonderful. From now on, you'll be able to tell ghosts and demons apart at a glance." Falling in love with him was easy. Kui Xi watched as he cut through the seas with a single stroke, gradually making a name for himself in the cultivation world. Later, he proudly told her that he was strong enough to find an immortal herb and cure her completely. He stroked her hair, kissed her forehead, and said with reddening ears, "Wait for me to come back." But Kui Xi waited a long time, and he never came back. When she saw him again, he was the ruler of the Ten Eastern Provinces, powerful and cold, able to command the cultivators of all ten provinces to fight. Kui Xi stood in the crowd and looked up at him, then covered her mouth and burst into tears. That wasn't Wen Ruyu. She could see it. The real Wen Ruyu's soul had been beautiful and pure. How could it be that filthy black? Kui Xi decided to avenge Wen Ruyu. But she was so weak. How could she possibly get revenge for him? == Blurb dated 2024.6.13 Premise began 2023.12.12; blurb revised 2.24 and 3.10. Cover art used with permission from Yi Xu. Theme: Change your fate and stay true to yourself.