The Cannon Fodder Furnace Tripod Is Forced to Capture the Demon

The blurb for my upcoming novel, After Humiliating the Gloomy Marquis, is below. If you're interested, you can save it to your collection in the author's profile.

Only after doing the unspeakable with her nemesis, Jing Qianheng, did Jiang Zhishui discover that she was a furnace cauldron used by the world-ending demon to absorb cultivation.

Jing Qianheng, a prince of Jin, was narrow-minded, sickly, and frail. He came to the immortal sect to seek a master, and he and Jiang Zhishui couldn't stand each other.

Before long, civil strife broke out in Jin. After returning home, he was framed by villains and died a horrific sacrificial death.

Jiang Zhishui, a laid-back female cultivator from the immortal sect, had offended this haughty prince. She didn't think much of him, but couldn't help sighing when she heard of his tragic death.

A few years later, her own life took a turn for the worse. A violent, tyrannical world-ending demon suddenly appeared and chose her as his furnace-cauldron bride.

On their wedding night, they shared a warm bed beneath the hibiscus curtains.

The next morning, her skin was covered in mottled red marks. She soaked in a bathtub, her waist aching, leaving the maids who served her gasping in shock.

But after that night, the demon rarely appeared before her. Why? Wasn't he supposed to use her as a furnace cauldron to cultivate?

Not long afterward, she died in an accident.

That was her first life. Jiang Zhishui never learned what the world-ending demon looked like before she died.

But that didn't matter. There was a more pressing problem now.

She had accidentally become intimate with the sickly Jing Qianheng. He had always looked down on her, and after she wore him out all night, he vomited blood in a furious rage and wanted to tear her flesh with his teeth.

Whether he liked it or not, Jiang Zhishui had no choice but to take responsibility for him.

However, while carrying out a System mission, she was struck by lightning and transported to another time and place.

In that world, the world-ending demon had become a widower, wasting away as he guarded his wife's coffin.

Why does this demon look so familiar?

Jiang Zhishui: "...Jing Qianheng?!"

Meanwhile, the young Jing Qianheng, who had been secretly following her, was also transported to the same world.

After putting the pieces together, Jiang Zhishui was horrified: Had she really done the unspeakable with the same person twice?

Reading Guide:

1. A laid-back heroine with terrible luck x a gloomy hero with a fragile air

2. Romance-focused, happy ending, one-on-one

3. The hero has a secret crush on the heroine

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Ning Rukui, with only three years left to live, takes a fancy to a young gentleman she sees rescuing a child on the street. She sends someone to inquire and learns he is the young Marquis Xie, who is reportedly about to become engaged.

A graceful young man, free-spirited and charming, strikingly handsome, and top-tier husband material in both family background and talent.

Relying on her brother, the Regent King's, power, Ning Rukui successfully marries into the marquis's household.

After their wedding, the uncooperative Xie Jingqing is given an aphrodisiac and sent to Ning Rukui's room.

That night, the bed curtains sway. Xie Jingqing's eyes are shattered with despair. Even as passion surges through him, he refuses to say a single gentle word. His eyes hold nothing but loathing as he grits his teeth and says, "You think this will get you what you want? Don't even dream of it! I will never... love you."

Ning Rukui never expected him to love her. Time was short, and having him at all was already good enough.

Later, political turmoil shook the court, and the Ning family was brought down in a single day.

Acting on an imperial order, Xie Jingqing went to arrest the Ning siblings, but when he arrived, they had already vanished.

Some said that the domineering Marchioness, unable to bear the shock of being betrayed by her own husband, had jumped into a river and died long ago.

The emperor wanted to reward Xie Jingqing for suppressing the rebels by granting him the Tutor's daughter as a wife, but he politely declined.

Rumors spread in the countryside that the young Marquis Xie had been so badly humiliated by that wicked woman that he was traumatized and no longer dared to marry.

Five years later, Xie Jingqing was sent to defend the border. A child wandered into the camp, and the child's mother hurried over to find them.

It was Ning Rukui, who had escaped and was supposed to be dead. She knelt in the hall below, tearfully confessing how much she had missed him. His guards stood outside the camp, listening as their usually kind and generous Marquis Xie said in a voice cold as ice, "Good. You married someone else and had a child, but you still think of me. Very good. Then... stay here tonight."

Theme: Where there's a will, there's a way