God in Hiding

[Pre-release: My Junior Sister, Your Tail Is About to Fall Off, details at the end. Please add it to your collection!]

[Beautiful and powerful, yet tragic | Identity revealed | Growth | Mutual salvation]

After Ye Luo died a violent death, she became a ghost constable. She worked diligently but was repeatedly suppressed.

Her fortunes began to change when she investigated a strange case in the human world.

Unfortunately, the mission got off to a bad start: she was first waylaid by an exceptionally handsome male ghost.

This fellow was a real oddity in the ghost realm. He refused to reincarnate and proposed helping Ye Luo catch ghosts and solve the case in exchange for her helping him recover his memories.

He had an unknown past and was full of secrets. How could she trust him? She promptly bound him with a soul-locking rope and put up a spiritual barrier. He smiled brightly, probably drawing little circles around her name in his heart.

The Ghost Lord was always cracking jokes, until Ye Luo finally snapped. "Go reincarnate!"

He asked with utter sincerity, "Can a ghost constable marry a human?"

Ye Luo was so furious that she chopped him in half at the waist on the spot.

Then, scowling, she personally put him back together.

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The case was solved, but Ye Luo accidentally swallowed a fragment of a divine artifact. That thing turned out to be connected to the survival of the six realms. The Heavenly Race ordered her to gather the fragments and seal away the world-destroying evil god. The road to finding them was fraught with danger, but the lazy ghost never left.

His mouth was tougher than his life, but his heart was unbelievably soft.

When someone offended her, he was even more furious than she was.

When she fell into a heart demon, he forced his way into the illusion to find her.

She was always urging him to reincarnate. But when she truly watched him slowly vanish in her arms, she belatedly pressed a hand to her chest. It felt as if a hole had opened there, leaving it hollow and full of wind.

It took Ye Luo 170 years to rise from a nobody of a ghost constable, easily pushed around by anyone, to the highest rank of immortal in the heavens. On her first visit to the Ninth Heaven, she found that the ghost had transformed into a pampered young lord of the White Dragon lineage, and had forgotten her completely.

The mission to collect the fragments was not over. Who would have thought that this "strange" young lord would once again insist on joining her?

The fragments kept burrowing into Ye Luo's body. She began to act strangely and repeatedly lost control, so she could only warn him to stay away.

The sickly young lord paid no heed. Even as his soul was burned by blazing flames, he insisted on holding her in his arms.

Ye Luo: With a remnant soul for a body, why are you still so reckless? How did a sickly dragon become a mad dragon?

But when no one else can approach her as her power runs wild, why is he the only one who can?

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[Reader's Notes]

1. One-on-one romance, happy ending. The romance develops slowly. The male lead is devoted to love and falls for the female lead again and again.

2. The female lead is powerful and grows stronger. The plot takes precedence over the romance. Lots of original worldbuilding, with a small ensemble cast.

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My Junior Sister, Your Tail Is About to Fall Off

[Junior sister who plays the pig to eat the tiger vs. obedient-acting, deranged demon king]

Ji Qingshu died by the sword of the senior brother she trusted most, Rong Li. He stood by the Bone-Melting Cliff, looking as if he were watching a stone fall into the abyss. His face never showed the slightest emotion.

When she opened her eyes again, a hundred years had passed. She had lost all her cultivation, and her face was ruined.

She avoided the demonic cultivators, but couldn't escape the demon clan.

Ji Qingshu fell into the hands of the demon king, infamous for his cruelty and lawlessness. He forced her to swallow a Soul-Devouring Pill and infiltrate Changming Sect to extract the spiritual bone of its leader, Rong Li.

The current sect leader, the foremost immortal of the age, was also the man who had killed her.

How could Ji Qingshu accept being controlled like this? She seized an opportunity to drive a Soul-Binding Nail into the demon king's heart. From then on, their pain was shared and their lives bound together, with no one but her able to undo it.

The demon king was caught completely off guard and flew into a rage. He rushed over, grabbed Ji Qingshu by the throat, and forced her into a corner. His own face flushed red, and her sly, triumphant expression was reflected in his eyes.

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Returning to the immortal sect, Ji Qingshu had only one goal: kill Rong Li.

Once the pride of heaven, she was now an inconspicuous junior sister at Changming Sect.

To outsiders, Ji Qingshu was amiable, gentle, and easy to bully.

In truth, she was cold-hearted and never let anyone take advantage of her.

She wasn't close to many people, but a cold-faced senior brother named Yan Lin paid her special attention.

He taught her swordsmanship on the mountain and looked after her during their training trips down below.

Rong Li had once been just like that. Later, he ran her through with his sword.

She was especially wary of Yan Lin.

Until she discovered that whenever she was injured, Yan Lin beside her would also let out a muffled groan.

One day, Ji Qingshu's sword technique was weak and clumsy.

Yan Lin frowned beside her, then finally stepped forward and placed his hand over hers as she held the sword. "It's so simple. Why can't you learn it?"

He guided her through the movements. A few moves later, the long sword was at his throat, drawing a thin line of blood.

Ji Qingshu looked utterly flustered, as if she were about to burst into tears at any moment, but she didn't move the sword a fraction. "S-Senior Brother, I'm so stupid..."

Her voice quivered with tears. "Actually, the demon king sent me to kill you. You've taught me so much. Could you teach me one more thing: how to kill you?"

Before she could finish speaking, the long sword shattered into several pieces. Yan Lin pressed her against a tree, his cool, restrained mask already torn away, revealing the wildness she knew so well.

His voice was husky and dangerous. He brushed his fingertip over the wound on her neck and pressed down.

"Since you've found me out, I no longer need to hide."

#Why is my enemy's enemy still my enemy?#

#After our lives were bound by the demon king, I learned my aloof senior brother was him#

#Every day: a weak junior sister playing her part × a cold senior brother trying to keep up his act#

Theme: Find life in desperation and keep moving forward