My Lady, I Cultivate the Heartless Dao

Tu Xiaoqian was a rogue immortal, born without emotions and regarded by his fellow immortals as a heartless monster.

One day, after stabbing some scummy male immortal, he was cast by the Celestial Emperor into the prison of reincarnation to suffer through a hundred lifetimes. To win his freedom, he had to earn the love of the universally adored male lead in each life.

And so...

[The More Children, the More Blessings: A Cultivation Reincarnation]

Prison Warden: "Follow the red string of fate. You'll have to bear a pile of babies with the male lead, who's cultivating the path of heartlessness. Then he'll run you through with his sword and cruelly abandon you. You and your children will become the biggest stepping stones on his path to enlightenment! More children, more blessings, right? The more children you have, the more love you'll collect. Got it?"

Tu Xiaoqian nodded emphatically. "Got it!"

Then...

The beautiful young woman tilted the handsome youth's chin, gazing into his reddened eyes as he begged for her love. She patted his waist and breathed flirtatiously into his ear. "Senior Brother, give me another baby. The more babies we have, the more I'll love you."

The Prison Warden went mad. "You're supposed to have the babies, not the male lead! If his Dao heart falls apart, who's going to ascend to immortality?"

Tu Xiaoqian: "Me!"

[The Empress Reincarnation, Where Tears Are Worth the Most]

Prison Warden: "You're the childhood sweetheart and empress of an emperor. You do everything you can to support your husband, but he never stops suspecting you. The emperor torments you a thousand times over, but you love him as though he were your first love. At last, ten years after you die full of resentment, the emperor finally understands your true heart and sheds a single tear at your grave. Tears shed from genuine emotion are the truest proof of his love for you!"

Tu Xiaoqian suddenly understood. "So! I need to make him cry for me?"

And so...

On the new emperor's wedding night, with their precious time together slipping away, just as the emperor was getting carried away, the empress suddenly shoved him down. Tu Xiaoqian held up a bottle in front of him. "Your Majesty, how about a little cry?"

The emperor flew into a rage, swept out, and swore never to set foot in the empress's chambers again. Yet later, on one silent night after another, he would fall to his knees beside the young woman's bed, heartbroken, and beg her for forgiveness. He listened as she impatiently ordered him around and coaxed him insincerely: "Once you've shed a thousand tears, I'll love you again."

The Prison Warden pounded the floor. "Damn it! You're supposed to move him to tears, not torment him until he cries!"

[The Human-Demon Romance Reincarnation, With a Substitute]

Prison Warden: "You're the human apprentice the Fox Lord of Qingqiu brought home. You cultivate for five hundred years just to attain immortality and stay by his side forever, but he only sees you as a substitute. Only after you cut out your heart to revive his moonlight-white beloved does he finally realize you're his true love. Is there any love story more moving than willingly giving up your heart?"

Tu Xiaoqian's eyes filled with tears. "There isn't!"

And so...

On a silent moonlit night, the young woman wound her fingers through the youth's long silver hair. She rubbed the great fox demon's soft ears like she was soothing a child, and laughed softly. "Master, are you really willing to cut out your heart to save me? But even if you save me, I won't love you. I want to spend eternity with the person I love. You're just a substitute. Are you still willing?"

The Prison Warden broke down. "This is madness, madness! I must be going crazy! Who's the substitute here? Who's supposed to give up their heart?!"

[In a Nutshell]

This is a game of love: the beloved rises to the top, while the admirer kneels and becomes a prisoner.

Take the male leads down their own melodramatic roads of love, and leave them nowhere to go!

[Reading Guide]

Quick transmigration through reincarnations. Almost every life is a crematorium romance. Three lives are planned for now.

I mainly wanted to indulge my own taste for angsty stories where men suffer. It's a pretty wild ride, with a focus on enjoying handsome men and having fun. It's a straight romance, though a few worlds include male pregnancy. The heroine is mentally tough, and has a somewhat clueless, adorable quality that makes her unknowingly irresistible to everyone.

The only two things I can guarantee are: the men are all chaste, and the happy ending never changes.

Theme: People suffer from three thousand afflictions in life, but lovesickness alone has no cure.