The Immortal Venerable Is Still Playing the Substitute Today

[Sweet-talking, hard-hearted sword cultivator x Madly devoted, innocent immortal master]

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Shen Tiyue was an utterly ordinary girl from Stonebridge Village. Countless immortals had declared that she was fated never to cultivate immortality.

She didn't care. All she wanted was to spend an ordinary lifetime with her blind husband.

But overnight, her husband was abducted by demons. To avenge him, Shen Tiyue joined a sect and defied fate.

Legend had it that the immortal master of Tianshan Sect was noble and aloof. Ten years ago, he wielded the Lone Radiance sword and slaughtered demons across the land.

The immortal master looked exactly like her blind husband. Though he was cold and distant, his unintentional gestures always reminded Shen Tiyue of her gentle husband.

Then, by chance, Shen Tiyue discovered demonic energy hidden within the immortal master.

Killing someone and then taking their skin was a wicked art known only to demons.

Though their strength was worlds apart, Shen Tiyue still went to confront the exalted immortal master with her sword in hand.

"What did you do to my husband?"

He Qing was a prodigy, proud and ambitious. To pursue a higher realm, he willingly severed his ties to love.

Without desire, there could be no longing. For ten years, he felt no different from how he had before.

Until Shen Tiyue appeared. He Qing fell madly in love with her. Hearing that she had a husband who died young, He Qing deliberately mimicked his every move, hoping to win her affection.

Only when her fierce sword energy came at him did he realize that in Shen Tiyue's heart, he was not worth even a fraction of her husband.

Chains coiled around the girl's neck. He Qing smiled in a deranged way. "I've tried so hard to imitate him. Why... won't you love me?"

"If you won't love me, then die with me."

He didn't know that the blind husband was the love he had cast aside, brought to life as an illusion.

Reader's guide:

1. The male lead is not quite right in the head. He thinks that if he plays the substitute well enough, the heroine will love him.

2. Both leads have lost their memories. The heroine recovers hers first. One-on-one romance, both leads are sexually inexperienced, happy ending.

Coming soon: The Taking

[Looks like a little white rabbit, but is a flirtatious beauty well versed in the art of training men] x [A powerful official who believes a wife is something you take by force]

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Lu Yu held power over the court and ruled with an iron fist for years. When he wanted something, if he couldn't take it, he destroyed it.

Time and again, he advised his friend to focus on politics instead of women.

His friend only smiled. "No one could fail to love my future wife."

During one visit to the Xiao residence, his friend forcefully dragged him along to meet the woman.

Lu Yu scoffed. Even a celestial maiden couldn't catch his eye.

A sudden cry came from behind him. He turned around

A young woman had fallen to the ground like a willow bending in the wind. Her hair was disheveled, and she timidly lifted her fawn-like eyes. "G-greetings, my lord."

Her upturned face was fragile and beautiful.

Lu Yu's gaze darkened, his expression unreadable. "Indeed... no one could fail to love her."

So what if she was his friend's fiancee?

The young official had once again found himself wanting to take something by force.

Xiao Huixin had never been content to take second place. Her father thought her too scheming to be a good example for other women, so he turned to raising her elder sister and ignored her.

Even her marriage was carelessly arranged by her father, who promised her to a poor scholar in his service.

She accepted in silence.

Until the day she heard that an important guest was coming.

Lu Yu was powerful and influential, with absolute control over the court. Even her father had to bow and scrape before him.

From a distance, Xiao Huixin saw the young man surrounded by a crowd. His pride was plain in the way he raised his eyes.

She would find herself a good marriage.

She put on the delicate, tender look men loved and, right in front of her future husband, enticed Lu Yu with a pitiful show of vulnerability.

The young man watched her with amused eyes, looking down at her without turning away.

Xiao Huixin bit her red lip and hid helplessly behind her future husband. She heard him comforting her, while the gaze above her grew more and more brazen.

Ever since she was a child, she had known that good things could only be won by fighting and taking.

A husband was no different.

Theme: Even in the depths of adversity, never give up hope of living.