[Wuxia Crossover] I Reach the BE Harem Showdown by Faking My Death

Completed work: "[Wuxia Crossover] I Achieved Happy Endings with My Beauty"

Coming soon: "[Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio] What Do I Do After Getting Hooked on Being a Widow?" and "Three Sentences That Made My Elder Brother Castrate Himself for Me". Their blurbs are at the end.

[Blurb]

In a chaotic age, her entire family is slaughtered.

Thanks to her astonishing beauty, Jiang Lanbi escapes death time and again.

Even the Evil King, who had originally treated her as a pawn, willingly dies by her hand.

To exact her revenge, she makes a pact with the Longevity Sutra.

If she can win over her targets, she will be cured of her chronic illness and break through the void.

Who could have guessed that on the day she fakes her death, famous young heroes from across the martial world would come running to her, each vying to die with her?

Wait!

Young hero, you're not one of my targets. Why are you running over here?

[Blurb 1] "[Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio] What Do I Do After Getting Hooked on Being a Widow?"

Sang Qiao is the richest widow in town. Her late husband left her a vast fortune.

A scholar on his way to the capital to take the imperial exams falls ill at her doorstep.

Kindhearted Sang Qiao takes him in and saves him.

Who could have known that late one night, the handsome scholar would shed his human skin and come to her bedside, holding a bloody human heart and saying tenderly:

"Qiao, your skin is so beautiful. Could I borrow it?"

It turns out he's the Painted Skin Ghost, who skins people and eats their hearts.

At the critical moment, a flash of white light makes the Painted Skin Ghost vanish into ashes.

A remarkably handsome man appears before her.

He says he's Ao Lie, the Third Crown Prince of the Dragon Palace in the Western Sea. Framed by a villain, he was transformed into a white horse, and since she rescued him, he's come to repay her kindness.

In the end, he even offers himself to her.

Faced with the Little White Dragon offering himself on a platter,

Sang Qiao is just about to spit out a refusal when the words catch in her throat.

Looking at the Dragon Palace's dazzling trove of treasures,

she blushes, props her chin in her hands, gazes at him, and calls, "Dear husband~"

Ao Lie: ...

A year later, on Guanyin's orders, the Little White Dragon must escort the monk Sanzang to the Western Paradise to seek the scriptures.

Little White Dragon: My dear, I'll be back in no time. When I return, we'll continue being a loving couple.

Sang Qiao gives him a sidelong glance. "Hmph! I'm only cut out to be a widow, never a discarded wife!"

Looking at the fortune her second husband left behind in the Dragon Palace, Sang Qiao beams with delight.

Being a widow is much freer and happier than being a wife.

She's determined to become the richest merchant in the world.

Whether they're gods, demons, or humans, she's going to make money off all of them!

Halfway through the journey to fetch the scriptures, the Little White Dragon returns to see his wife, only to find a little green snake coiled around her feet.

Little Green Snake: What you have, I have too.

Little White Dragon: Insolent snake demon, stay away from my wife!

Little Green Snake: You have two, and so do I. I can give her the same pleasure you do.

The Little White Dragon is so furious he nearly bursts a blood vessel. "You insolent scoundrel! Take my sword!"

[Blurb 2] "Three Sentences That Made My Elder Brother Castrate Himself for Me"

Li Zhu has been breathtakingly beautiful since childhood.

Her mother, once a famous courtesan, held her in her arms and said, "My Li Zhu will grow up to be peerlessly beautiful and exalted in status. She won't follow in my footsteps."

And just as she predicted,

first, the Fan Yang Li clan adopted her as their daughter; then the emperor fell in love with her at first sight and brought her into the imperial harem.

On the day the imperial decree arrived, her elder brother, who had always borne the weight of his family's expectations, suddenly castrated himself so he could stay by her side forever.

She thought that after entering the palace, all she'd have to do was compete for the emperor's favor.

But the emperor was frail, and the imperial relatives were watching like hawks.

She thought to herself,

she had to find a way to secure her own future.

Xiao Sanlang braved death time and again and earned military honors, all so that one day he could marry the little Taoist nun he loved.

But when he returned, he received devastating news:

their secret romance had been exposed, and the abbess had already put the little Taoist nun to death.

He wished he were dead.

But then the lonely little Taoist nun from back then transformed into the Empress Dowager, who now ruled behind the curtain...

Notes:

1. The elder brother is not biologically related to the heroine, and he really does castrate himself.

2. The male lead changes from arc to arc. The heroine won't devote herself to just one man, and she has ambitions of her own.

3. The heroine is not a virgin, but the male lead is.

Theme: Refusing to submit to fate