[A demon seed who knows nothing of love x The beloved senior sister of an immortal sect]
Ji Hanxue was born a demon seed. When she was young, because of her mother, she was imprisoned within a small area in the far north for three hundred years.
Confused and lost, she couldn't understand why her mother had confined her there, so she infiltrated an immortal sect to seek answers.
As a demon seed hiding in an immortal sect, Ji Hanxue was cautious at every turn. Still, someone tried to provoke her. Just as she was about to break her seal and retaliate with demonic energy, Jiang Ruomei lazily swung her sword and came to her rescue.
Ji Hanxue asked her name, and she said she was called Jiang Ruomei.
Ji Hanxue had heard of her. She was the legendary genius of the sword path. At the time, hoping to learn more, Ji Hanxue struck up a friendship with her...
Later, rumors spread through the immortal realm that Jiang Ruomei had died after her master carved out her spiritual marrow and replaced her bones. Hearing the news far away in the northern lands, Ji Hanxue fully succumbed to demonic corruption and became the world's sole Demon Venerable.
The Demon Venerable returned to the Cangxuan Sect, tore her master's body to pieces, took Jiang Ruomei's corpse, and buried her in the northern lands, in the plum grove planted for her.
From then on, the people of the immortal sects trembled at the mention of Ji Hanxue.
The only thing the rumors said about her, the violent Demon Venerable, was that she had once had a beloved in the immortal sects: the revered sword-path genius of the Cangxuan Sect.
At the beginning of winter's end in some year, the red plums were in bloom.
In the grove where her beloved was buried, Ji Hanxue found a little white fox who looked like her.
After a long hesitation, she lifted it as if she were crying, then stroked and squeezed it. A smile touched her lips as she said, "You look just like her."
The little white fox gazed up at her in confusion, trying to wriggle free from her grasp.
Little white fox: Wait, is she treating me like a substitute?
A sharp pain shot through its hind leg, and in the end it gave up struggling and lay in her arms.
After Ji Hanxue saved her, Jiang Ruomei was fed by her every day and realized that she seemed to have become her own substitute.
She had wanted to struggle at first, but gave up and let Ji Hanxue do as she pleased. Being a substitute was fine, she supposed...
Jiang Ruomei: [giving up]
One night, the demonic energy inside Ji Hanxue surged out. Holding the little white fox in a daze, she shed tears. "I miss her."
But she didn't know that the little white fox was Jiang Ruomei herself.
The little white fox returned to her original form. A fingertip brushed across Ji Hanxue's cheek as she asked curiously, "Are you thinking of her?"
"But I'm her."
Ji Hanxue bit her lip and told her, "I've always known."
* One-on-one romance, both leads' first and only partners, happy ending
* Imaginary setting, lots of original worldbuilding
Seeking readers for my upcoming novel QVQ
The Ministers Want Me to Win Over the Empress Dowager
Blurb:
[Mad Empress Dowager x Alluring Eldest Princess]
As the only surviving heir of the Great Wei Dynasty, the eldest princess, Jun Zhaoyan, was the hope of all the ministers from a young age and was named Crown Princess.
But above her was a step-empress, appointed by the late empress herself. After the late emperor died, the step-empress ruled from behind the curtain and took control of Great Wei.
The ministers waited and waited until the eldest princess finally came of age. They began sending handsome men to her, openly and discreetly urging her to seize power and win over the Empress Dowager.
Late at night,
Jun Zhaoyan climbed over several palace walls to reach Kunning Palace. She took the memorial from the person inside, sat on the desk, and lifted their chin. "Mother Empress, they want me to win you over."
"Is that so?" The person in the hall looked up at her, then seized her hand and pinned it behind her back. "I'd like to see which of us wins over the other."
* Both leads' first and only partners, one-on-one romance
Theme: Keep hope alive, even in adversity
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Is the female lead cultivating the path of selfless dedication, the kind where she sacrifices herself for others? It's another cultivation novel where the protagonist is tortured. To be honest, I don't see what's so great about this kind of dedication. In the end, she's either killed by hypocritical, scheming people or by demonic forces.
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Thank heavens, thank earth, and thank you for your tireless work!
Great, great, tastes amazing!
I'm really looking forward to the rest of the story, but it would be even better if they could change the word "disciple" [glasses].
"Changsun Lan was already at the end of her offensive..." (A little bug fix for the author!) At the end of its strength?