I Became a Rich Woman by Binding a Cultivation System

Genius alchemist heroine x the whole sect's beloved senior brother hero

Sharp-tongued miser x lovestruck innocent

Xia Ling transmigrates.

The good news: she's become the heiress of a wealthy family.

The bad news: she's the cannon-fodder biological daughter, doomed to die under the oppression of the fake heiress.

The even worse news: according to the plot, she's about to be brutally face-slapped and killed by the fake heiress on the battlefield between immortals and demons.

Xia Ling: Heaven, if you're going to kill me, could you at least make it quick?

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But...

Knowing the plot, Xia Ling has no intention of getting mixed up in this mess about the fake and real heiress.

She's finally transmigrated to the cultivation world, and she's even got a cultivation System.

As the real heiress who knows the plot, she owes it to herself to fight for eternal life.

Xia Ling: Why fight for someone's favor when we could cultivate and make money, guys?

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Later on,

Xia Ling realizes that working hard and improving herself really does pay off.

The ancient alchemy inheritance, the extinct seeds, the lost recipes, and the championship of the alchemy competition that belonged to the fake heiress in the original plot are all hers now.

As for the fake heiress's terrible love interests from the plot...

The young lord of the city is overbearing. "Woman, you know, I'm not interested in anyone else. But you're different."

A high-ranking demon cultivator raises an eyebrow. "I am willing to give up my wild ways for you."

The demon clan's prince is sunny and cheerful. "Big Sister, I'm not like them. I only know how to care for you."

Xia Ling: H-help! Someone save me!

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Later still,

Senior Brother Wen Ting, the fair and impartial one, stands outside Xia Ling's room, blushing as he holds out a bouquet of roses he bought for ten spirit stones.

"I heard girls all like these..."

Xia Ling thanks him profusely and invites both the roses and Senior Brother inside.

How could she not invite him in? Half the cultivators on the mountain have come to watch!

"Junior Sister, you... you're as beautiful as these flowers."

Xia Ling: Wait, these roses... are plastic!

Senior Brother, you've been conned!

1. My own take on cultivation. Cultivation levels: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Spirit Division, Body Integration, Tribulation Crossing, Mahayana; grades: Human, Yellow, Black, Earth, Heaven.

2. Includes forum-style sections.

A preview of my upcoming novel, Her Highness the Princess

Many years later, someone asks Xiao Rui a question: "How does one become a good princess of the Great Qi?"

Xiao Rui looks utterly perplexed. "You just... be one?"

Xiao Rui has been showered with love since birth. On the day she was born, her father conquered the previous dynasty's capital and earned the right to call himself emperor. She was elevated from the daughter of a rebel leader to a princess.

When she turned one, her father officially named her full brother crown prince. That meant she could do as she pleased in this reign, and enjoy the next one too.

By the time Xiao Rui turns fourteen, she has never known a moment's worry. But on an otherwise ordinary day when she's fourteen, her elders suddenly tell her she must choose a consort.

At last, Xiao Rui has a problem. Her head aches, and she looks innocently at her elders, hoping they'll make the decision for her as they always have.

The Emperor: "I think Prince Louis, with his blond hair and blue eyes, would be a fine choice. He's from Persia and has lived in the capital for several years."

The Empress: "Sweetheart, what do you think of your uncle's only son, your cousin, the general of the Cavalry Guard?"

The Crown Prince: "The heir of the Earl of Renping, successor to a thousand-year-old clan and my Junior Lecturer in the Left Secretariat, is still unmarried."

Xiao Rui feels that her troubles haven't been resolved. They've only multiplied. Who should she choose to make every elder happy?

The Emperor hears about Xiao Rui's problem and quietly offers her an idea. "If you want everyone to be happy, the only solution is to choose all three candidates."

He changes tack. "But even a princess can't have three consorts, and the ministers would make a fuss. How about choosing one as your principal husband and keeping the other two as lovers? Do your father a favor and pick my candidate as your principal husband. I have excellent taste. A prince would surely make a virtuous and gentle husband."

Xiao Rui's eyes widen. "Huh...?"

The Empress and Crown Prince: "Don't teach the child bad ideas!"

Notes:

1. A sweet, fluffy story whose main plot is Xiao Rui choosing a consort.

2. The male lead hasn't been decided yet. I'll choose based on Xiao Rui's chemistry with the potential love interests after the story starts. One-on-one romance, and she won't choose all three.

3. The setting borrows from multiple dynasties, using whichever systems fit.

4. The heroine is a naturally strong but rather silly girl.

5. Updates daily at 9 p.m. after the novel launches.

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