Becoming the Pillar of a Ramshackle Troupe

Please add my upcoming martial arts and political intrigue novel, The Factory Director's Blood-Red Moonlight.

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A person who only wants to slack off has the misfortune of becoming the god of this world, and, to top it off, turning a group of pillars of the cultivation world into bona fide imposters...

Let's congratulate Heaven's favorite and the world's unluckiest person, Chu Yunhuan!

The imposters make a grand spectacle of their incompetence, and if you collect all seven, you can even summon a reclusive demon king!

And yet they're all deeply grateful and having the time of their lives, convinced that their lives have finally become colorful. They stray farther and farther down their own paths of madness...

"Thanks for asking. We just put our skill points in the wrong places!" the imposters explain.

The body-tempering fanatic, Senior Brother, chose mutation over changing his face or his heart, putting on a cultivation-world version of The Incredible Mr. Limpet.

The delicate and graceful Second Senior Sister wields a bizarre magical weapon, sobbing prettily as she unleashes a barrage of shots.

Third Senior Brother, the god of perfume, struts his stuff everywhere, wafting a pungent cloud of pheromones.

Honest and reliable Fourth Senior Brother tosses three copper coins and can only divine that "a horse needs night fodder to grow fat, and a person who doesn't eat will lose weight."

Chu Yunhuan's cheeks twitched twice with rage. "A bunch of pretty ornaments, useless as can be!"

Just then, the impossibly handsome Fifth Senior Brother got a little too excited and half his face suddenly fell off, revealing a pair of tiny mung-bean eyes.

Only the sect leader was deeply impressed with his own ability to recognize talent:

"Dear disciple, show us your divine powers. Our ascension depends on you!"

And all this is because they don't yet know that their pitifully feeble bodies will have to shoulder the responsibility of saving the world...

The imposters are too weak to fend for themselves, and Chu Yunhuan weeps:

I'm a useless bunch of pretty faces, just the sturdiest stalk in the field.

I'm a pillar of a thousand-year-old sect, just the part that's strong on the outside and rotten within.

What? You say I'm just pretending to be competent?

At least I play the sheng. They all play the hulusi!

Well, anyway, a pair of sinister eyes peek out from behind Chu Yunhuan.

Yin Fenghe unexpectedly has a whole collection of secret identities, and thinks she's adapting just fine.

A certain righteous young prodigy:

Good and evil can never coexist! Humans and demons can never live together!

Huh? That was in my previous life?

A certain demon king:

I started with an egg, and cultivation depends on...

Oh no! I can't cultivate at all!

Unluckily used by her as a foot warmer, he can only turn over and expose his belly through tears, offering up his softer side.

A certain leader of the Hehuan Sect:

Our sect's techniques are profound and extensive. My ascension is just around the corner!

Too bad his eyes are gradually clearing, and he's losing some worldly desires (and abilities).

A certain dog:

Hungry! Food! Master, open the door! It's me!

From then on, the female lead devotes herself to her career, while the male lead is absorbed in romance.

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Please note:

1. The male lead is genuinely a eunuch.

2. The setting is based on the Ming Dynasty, but this is a fictional world with no connection to real history.

3. A story about two mad people falling in love. They are devoted to each other in body and soul, with a happy ending.

This is a story about fate.

For twenty-five years, Fu Siwei had always dreamed of becoming a noble and magnanimous wandering hero.

But from the day he entered the palace as a servant, his life held nothing but damp, sunless winters.

After fifteen years of scraping by, he finally tortured his enemy to death.

He escaped the palace, hoping to get away with his life and live as he pleased.

But the shame he could never erase tormented his conflicted and chaotic heart.

The threads of fate only tightened around him, drawing him into a trap that had been set long ago.

In the end, he had no choice but to tear off the disguise of his icy, untainted soul with his own hands and return to that lightless place.

Fortunately, even his bleak life held one small comfort.

A person who existed only in his heart, an ideal he could see but never reach.

He raised his cup to the moon in the sky, wishing it would always be whole.

Though the moon in his sky was blood-red, sharp as a hook.

A terrifyingly absurd sight.

Wenren Jingyue, known by the name Blood Moon, roams the martial world with a chivalrous heart, but doesn't hesitate to break the rules.

With a pen, she spreads scandalous rumors. Some people are alive, yet already dead.

With a blade, she travels a thousand miles to kill one person. Some people die, yet can die again and again.

But this freewheeling woman is burdened with a tremendous responsibility.

Forced to rein in her nature amid the treacherous power struggles at court, she advances cautiously, step by step.

Fortunately, when it comes to love, she can let her mad nature show, acting out one outrageous case of taking what she wants after another.

She says she can always get whatever she wants.

A free-spirited, aloof heroine is also a domineering woman who insists on having her way.

A vengeful soul returned from hell is actually a coward who says one thing and means another.

But still!

Wenren Jingyue is caught up in the political situation and assumes another person's identity to become a low-ranking Embroidered Uniform Guard.

She plots in secret, turns the tides, and loves provoking her superior, nearly killing her own husband by accident.

Bound by fate, Fu Siwei returns to his cage and takes charge of the Eastern Depot.

He can't find himself, loses his lover, and suffers from a touch-starved condition, spending every day slinking around in the shadows.

And so, the four identities between them give rise to another title:

My Lover Is Me!

Theme: Good and evil have their limits, and all living beings are equal.