She Has to Sell This Sword Today

A silly, ongoing sweet romance: "Dog Sword Cultivator! Take This Aphrodisiac from the Hehuan Sect!" Blurb at the bottom

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*The whole story has been carefully revised from beginning to end, with changes to both the plot logic and romance. I take no responsibility for pirated copies.

Chuunibyou, silly, and naughty heroine Liang Jingxue x a young general, Li Yanshi, who's sweet on the outside and dark on the inside

Keywords: rivals-to-lovers, secret identities, two equally matched leads, an atypical groveling redemption arc, beating a dog's head in vs. eagerly volunteering to be one, a silly wuxia story

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Liang Jingxue lost her sword on her very first day in the jianghu, when she set out to uncover her origins.

The man who took it was General Li Yanshi of Dingyuan: first-rate looks, first-rate scheming, and the sort who could devour you without spitting out the bones.

Ten days ago, "Assassin Liang" sneaked into the general's residence at night to steal back her sword, swearing to chop off his dog head.

Ten days later, "Bodyguard Liang" was crouching on a roof beam, gnawing on roast chicken and watching her employer, the demon Li, below. She couldn't shake the feeling that something was off.

Li Yanshi congratulated himself: A little beauty trap, and I've got her right where I want her.

But it turned out he was the one who'd fallen for the trap. The day she tricked him into giving up clues about her origins, she faked her death and escaped.

Li Yanshi actually drew his sword and tried to die for love. She was so startled she played dead no longer and popped back up. "Help! My boss really wants to seduce me!"

He was devious and selfish. She played him for all he was worth, but he still gave her her freedom.

The jianghu was full of dangers. When she lost her sight, a knight-errant named Shi Yan gently protected her. Afraid he might be a lecher, she lied with a straight face: "I'm General Dingyuan's fiancee."

Shi Yan just smiled. "I can learn to act like a concubine."

[She claimed Li Yanshi was into men. Shi Yan: "Mm-hmm, you can tell at a glance!"]

[The neighbors warned him: "Keep an eye on your wife. Someone saw her getting awfully close to General Dingyuan."

Shi Yan: "Thank you for the warning." (I'll be more careful next time.)]

She'd kissed the general, then kissed the knight-errant. Smacking her lips, she wondered: Did these two learn to kiss in the same place?

He kissed her in the daytime, then again at night. His heart ached more than his cheeks (Lv Xiucai.jpg): Who cheated on me? And who did I cheat on?

#Icheatedonmyself #Savoringthekisswhilecursingthismouth

[Q: General Li, is it stressful playing N roles by yourself?

Li Yanshi: My qinggong is no joke. The rumors that I run until my legs give out and my back gives out are lies. It's just that sometimes I get jealous when she praises anyone.]

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Li Yanshi: "I hear you've been ruining my reputation all over the place, telling everyone you're my fiancee."

Liang Jingxue: "What's the harm in borrowing your name? Don't be so stingy. If you want, I can make it up to you. I could even put up a public notice."

Li Yanshi: "Put up what? Do you talk to everyone else with that same sarcastic attitude?"

Liang Jingxue: "You get the face you deserve, General."

(See Chapter 60.)

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Li Yanshi (taking off his clothes in a flurry): "Every scar is part of my past. I told you, I'm not a good person, and I'm barely human. If you don't believe me, I'll just have to show you."

Li Yanshi (stopping her lecherous eyes from roaming up and down): "I said look at my scars. Where are you looking?!"

Liang Jingxue (swallowing): "Do you have scars anywhere else? Like on your butt?"

(See Chapter 128.)

******* Reader's Guide and Content Warnings *******

1. One-on-one, both leads are virgins. The male lead is a model of proper conduct and devoted to serving his partner.

2. A happy ending and a silly jianghu adventure, nine parts sweet to one part angst (the man gets the angst). The overall tone is cheerful, with a cast of comedians. The style isn't especially classical, and there are countless original worldbuilding details, including modern elements.

3. The heroine sees men as gay for each other (no BL couples), is lustful but not promiscuous, and never dates the hero's two identities at once. She's extremely strong throughout. Innocent and easy to fool at first, she later becomes a social butterfly who chops people down with gusto.

4. The heroine's growth arc runs alongside the hero's path to self-redemption. No melodramatic scenes of the heroine being abused, and no women competing for men.

Ongoing story: "Dog Sword Cultivator! Take This Aphrodisiac from the Hehuan Sect!" Please add it to your collection.

Upright, heartless sword cultivator who practices the ruthless dao x a little nobody from the Hehuan Sect who's spent five years studying and three years delaying graduation

Blurb:

This is Qing Jiu's third time delaying graduation.

When she transmigrated, the System solemnly promised to send her to a "lie flat sect," where she could graduate without a hitch and return to the modern world.

She hadn't even finished grinning when she found herself at the eighty-eighth induction ceremony for new students of the Hehuan Sect.

Though Qing Jiu had never been in a relationship, she was a stone-cold straight woman with one redeeming quality: she was humble and eager to learn!

Her senior sister taught her how to give someone a smoldering look, and she blinked herself into an eye infection.

Her senior brother taught her how to use music to enchant people, and she practiced the suona all night.

Her junior sister recommended some "sleeping pills." Qing Jiu took the hint, bought calming pills from an alchemy cultivator, and slept for seven days and seven nights.

In her first two final exams, not only did she fail to seduce anyone, she also angered seven high-ranking cultivators and was hunted down.

[Top story on the SpiritNet: A Hehuan Sect cultivator with suspicious behavior has been spotted. Characteristics: suona at her waist, an eye condition. All cultivators should keep their distance.]

With graduation about to be delayed yet again, her master couldn't stand watching anymore and suggested, "Go find a sword cultivator who practices the ruthless dao. They have quotas to meet these days too. Just run once you get what you want."

You've got to take a risk to finish your thesis!

She packed her suona and sleeping pills and left the sect.

And sure enough, she ran into a sword cultivator who had just come out of seclusion.

Qing Jiu: This pressure is so strong. He's at least at the Nascent Soul stage. I'll find someone else.

System: This is the sword cultivator in the entire Nine Provinces Realm who is least likely to kill you.

Qing Jiu flicked her hair. "Fellow cultivator, here I come~"

She put in two drops of eye drops. "Wah, wah, this humble woman has injured her leg all alone in these remote mountains. Please, fellow cultivator, help me."

Sword cultivator (taking two steps back), upright and righteous: "You want to scam me out of my prized sword! Not falling for it!"

She snapped in frustration. "Want to fight?"

Sword cultivator: "I'm coming!"

Every day, the dead sword cultivator practiced his sword with single-minded focus in front of a cliff. Beside him, she rubbed herself against a tree like a flirtatious bear, waving a handkerchief. "Oh, my darling~ Are you hungry~ Come on, howl-hoo, hoo-hey!"

She tried everything she could think of, but the dead sword cultivator remained unmoved.

By chance, Qing Jiu learned that her cultivation wasn't too weak and her seduction arts weren't incomplete. She'd been placed under a restriction: no one would ever truly love her in this life, and only a male cultivator at the Nascent Soul stage who willingly gave himself to her could break it.

Qing Jiu had no choice but to make a deal with the dead sword cultivator. She would risk her life to help him cultivate the ruthless dao, and he would give himself to her to break the restriction, let her graduate, and send her back to the modern world. A win-win.

Once the restriction was lifted,

Uh-oh. The seven cultivators she'd failed to seduce had since become big shots in their respective fields, and they all came in for a kiss.

Qing Jiu cried for help: Hurry, hurry, stab me with your sword so I can go back!

The dead sword cultivator wiped the blood of his love rivals from his blade.

"I'm done cultivating this ruthless dao."

Theme: My fate is mine to command, not Heaven's.