Raising a Jiao

[Don't bother me if you read pirated copies]

After finishing the novel she'd followed for three years, Qi Jiulian flew into helpless rage at her screen.

You damn author, how could you kill Lou Yu!

Lou Yu was the third male lead, far more popular than the leads. His true form was a one-of-a-kind jiao, yet the author wrote him as a lovesick fool who adored the heroine, gave her everything, and ultimately died after cutting out his own heart to save her.

Furious, she typed up a thousand-word rant, but before she could post it, she transmigrated into the story.

Qi Jiulian: I'll fix your lousy plot right away.

She began coming up with all sorts of ways to keep Lou Yu away from the heroine and cure him of his lovesickness.

When Lou Yu tried to take a hit for the heroine, she shoved the heroine out of the way. When he tried to dig out his demon core to save her, Qi Jiulian grabbed the heroine and ran.

After all that, Qi Jiulian finally saw him get over his lovesickness and set his sights on success. Relieved, she happily made plans to go out with someone else.

But before she could leave, something cold wrapped around her. A black-scaled jiao tail coiled tightly around her ankle.

Someone embraced her from behind, leaning close to her ear. His eyes were full of madness and possessiveness. "Where do you think you're going?"

His jiao tail wound around her. "You've already become normal!"

Lou Yu tightened his tail and shut the door. "I was only pretending for you. See? I fooled you."

Lou Yu's whole life had been controlled by the plot. Reborn into a new life, when the plot told him to save the heroine, he picked up a knife and wanted to kill them both. But a young woman threw herself into his arms.

Her eyes were full of him, overflowing with joy. She charged into his dark, muddy world without hesitation.

But he wasn't satisfied with that tiny touch. He greedily wanted more.

Night after night, as he yearned for her, all he could think about was locking her by his side and taking whatever he wanted from her.

He only pretended to be normal for her. How else could he lure her to his side?

Lou Yu used every ounce of tenderness and cruelty he had in him, asking only that his sun shine on him alone forever.

1. One-on-one, both leads' first time, happy ending.

2. The male lead is genuinely lovesick. He falls for the heroine first, after convincing himself to do so.

3. The male lead has nothing much to do with the heroine in the book.

A preview of my next book, After My Nemesis's Heart Was Taken

Blurb: The day I cut out Wen Xingqiao's heart, I saw him cry for the first time.

The man who'd been at odds with me for three years gripped my hand tightly and glared at me as if he wanted to devour me.

Unfortunately, he was about to die.

After infiltrating the Immortal Alliance for three years, I discovered that the target I'd been searching for was none other than Wen Xingqiao, the "senior brother" I'd clashed with as soon as I joined the alliance.

There was too much history between us to tell in three days and three nights. He'd even nearly discovered that I was really a disciple of the Hehuan Sect.

I should have been happy to learn he was my target, but I couldn't bring myself to feel glad.

How strange. Why was that?

My master ordered me to cut out Wen Xingqiao's Seven-Orifices Exquisite Heart and bring it back to the Hehuan Sect once his cultivation reached the Nascent Soul stage.

Wen Xingqiao had already reached the late Golden Core stage, but he couldn't break through. I had no choice but to step in and give him a hand.

I used a secret art on him, tricking him into losing himself in it.

As we were caught up in the moment, he saw the Hehuan Sect sigils on my body. He pressed his hand against them, his voice strained. "Ran Tong, so you really are a demoness of the Hehuan Sect."

I gave him half my cultivation to help him advance to the Nascent Soul stage. Then I plunged a knife into his chest.

He caught my hand. The Immortal Alliance's favored genius actually shed tears. "You want my heart too?"

I didn't answer. I pulled his hand away and cut open his chest.

I saw the Seven-Orifices Exquisite Heart my master wanted, crystalline and brilliant as the stars.

I took it.

I never imagined Wen Xingqiao would survive.

By then, I had been sentenced to the demon prison. The demons were in turmoil, trying to break through the barrier and escape.

He appeared amid a crowd of Immortal Alliance cultivators. In the blink of an eye, he wiped out every demon responsible for the disturbance, then fixed his icy gaze on me.

His eyes were as if he wanted to grind my bones to dust.

I stared in shock as he approached. Demonic blood rained behind him, yet not a speck of dust touched him.

"Why are you looking at me like that? Did you think I was completely dead?"

He took me away.

I was stunned to see the very same room where I'd taken his heart, recreated down to every detail.

He closed in on me step by step, just as I'd done to him that day. He pinned me down and pressed a dagger to my heart.

"My heart is with you. Will you give it back to me now?"

Ten years later, Wen Xingqiao couldn't describe how he felt when he finally caught Ran Tong. Unable to control himself, he held her over the heart and breathed softly.

"Or," he stroked the sigil on her body, trembling with excitement, "use the Hehuan Sect secret art you used that night on me again."

Completed novel: How to Humiliate a Cold Daoist Lord

Blurb: [Deliberately seduces him, then runs off, while he gets hooked and wants her to seduce him again, only to find she's gone]

Bei Su woke up in her coffin. Sealed away for a hundred years, the evil god found upon waking that her natal artifact was damaged and needed a vessel to repair it.

But the artifact was picky. It wouldn't accept anyone unattractive or untalented. After much deliberation, it chose the Daoist Lord with a Golden Lotus body.

A Golden Lotus could give birth to all things, making him the perfect vessel.

On the night of the full moon, when he was at his weakest, Bei Su successfully abducted him and took him to the Demon Realm.

No matter how she tried to refine him, he never made a sound. He still maintained his lofty air. Watching him only made Bei Su want to defile that Golden Lotus even more.

Beneath the moonlight, the man's fair skin burned red, and a tear slid from the corner of his eye.

She smiled nonchalantly. "Why are you crying? It'll be over soon."

But she couldn't succeed in one go. She would have to refine him several times before she could turn him completely into her vessel.

She never expected things to go wrong.

Cheng Jing was a Daoist Lord revered by thousands, just one step away from ascension, but a woman took his chastity.

Her scent filled the dark, lightless hall. Cheng Jing endured her taunts, waiting only for the child in his belly to be born so he could kill them both.

But she died first, right in front of him.

On the day he was supposed to undergo his tribulation, cultivators from across the cultivation world gathered at the Daoist Sect to witness this lord ascend to immortality.

But he never appeared.

The Daoist Lord they revered had borne a child for an evil god, buried her with his own hands, then returned to face his tribulation.

Cheng Jing didn't want to admit he'd been tamed.

Every night he closed his eyes, he dreamed of her. She kissed his lips and whispered in his ear.

But when he woke, all that remained was himself, immersed in the memory of her teasing.

He forced himself to forget the humiliation she'd brought him, until he sensed her presence at the recruitment ceremony. She hadn't died at all, and she'd forgotten him.

Ah...

Cheng Jing raised a hand to conceal the madness in his eyes and chuckled.

Was it his turn to tease her now?

*

At the ceremony, the cultivators watched in shock as the Daoist Lord took a woman as his disciple. Later, when someone went to ask her what it was like to become the Daoist Lord's first disciple, they couldn't find her anywhere.

Bei Su, who had faked her death and lost her memories, now sat on a lotus dais with her out-of-control "master" in front of her.

Cheng Jing radiated her evil aura from within. The deep red demon mark between his brows made him look bewitching, but his words were full of hatred.

"Want to die in front of me again?"

Extra scene:

After recovering her memories, Bei Su never intended to take responsibility for Cheng Jing. She picked up her repaired artifact and was about to leave.

But Cheng Jing sat quietly on the lotus dais, hair hanging loose, with only a ribbon tied around his waist that would come undone with one tug. His eyes, glistening as if with mist, turned toward her.

Bei Su: Damn it, this lotus really knows how to seduce people.

Fake death, amnesia, male pregnancy, and a lofty beauty brought down from his pedestal.

The heroine forces the hero to submit in the beginning. Later, the hero seduces the heroine.

The male lead becomes pregnant.

Not gender reversal or a matriarchal setting. The heroine's true form is a snake.

A preview of my next book, Abandoning That Cauldron Day After Day

[An awakened Hehuan Sect elder who switches to the Heartless Dao, only to have her cultivation broken, and a scheming little fox who only wants to share a night of passion with the heroine]

The Hehuan Sect caught a nine-tailed fox, cleaned him up, and presented him to Elder Lu Jinyao as a cultivation cauldron.

The young man lay there, his thin robe slipping from his trembling shoulders. He was very alluring.

But Lu Jinyao had no romantic thoughts at all. She entered the room, picked him up, and threw him right back out.

As the villain of this story, in her previous life she'd drained this nine-tailed fox of his spiritual energy by taking too much from him, then casually abandoned him. When he returned, corrupted by hatred, he killed her.

If he was going to kill her anyway, why keep him around?

She'd just thrown him out when she turned around and saw the young man lying on the bed, even though he should have been outside.

Lu Jinyao: Am I seeing things?

Lu Jinyao tried several times to throw him out, and even tried to kill him, but she couldn't succeed. He would just appear by the door again.

So if she didn't follow the plot, it started over, huh?

She gave in. That night, she stayed far away from him, pretended not to hear his pained sounds, and waited until dawn.

After that, every time the plot called for her to absorb his spiritual energy, the scene would repeat endlessly unless she stayed with him. In her previous life, she'd absorbed his spiritual energy almost every day.

Lu Jinyao: The more fun it was in my previous life, the more infuriating it is now.

She was on her guard every day, but still miscalculated and ended up cultivating with him.

When she awoke, she met a pair of sinister eyes. Demonic energy surrounded him, and his fox tail was wrapped tightly around her waist as if he wanted to strangle her.

Lu Jinyao immediately recognized him as the version of himself who had turned evil in her previous life, and killed him without hesitation.

But everything suddenly returned to the beginning. The young fox's eyes were damp, and his tail spread wide before wrapping around her clingily.

[The heroine is not a virgin, the hero is. Both are reborn, and the male lead's past and present selves are one and the same.

A save-and-reload story: abandon him once, start over once, and the little fox controls when to reload.

In his previous life, the male lead chased the heroine to win her back.

In this life, the little fox and his previous-life self fight over her, both scheming.]

Completed novel in my collection: Seducing the Fox

Theme: Love yourself