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Qu Jiu served as a covert guard for the Prince of Yong's household for thirteen years. The last time she took action, she killed her master with her own hands. The backlash from their master-servant contract destroyed her cultivation and severed every meridian in her body. After slipping on a rainy night and tumbling all the way down a cliff, Qu Jiu closed her eyes and thought back over her life. She felt no regrets and was ready to wait quietly for death.
Then she was rescued by someone who claimed to be the Demon Lord.
“Pretty face, tender arms, a spring-water sword. What a pity none of those things suit you.” The Demon Lord himself had a gentle, alluring face, but as he pinched her chin, his words grew more and more disdainful. “Even your name is awful. Can't you come up with a new one?”
“I can't change anything else, but my name... Since you found me in the middle of nowhere,” Qu Jiu said weakly, staring up at the sky, “then call me Qu Shiqing.”
Whatever. I don't care anymore.
Xuan Yin, ruler of the Demon Realm, was known throughout the cultivation world as a beautiful lunatic. He was eccentric in his ways, had strange ideas, was unruly by nature, and enjoyed picking up trash wherever he went.
One day, he happened to find a stray System that called itself a transmigration-into-a-book assistant for a Dragon-Aotian protagonist. After learning that he was the villainous boss in a Dragon-Aotian novel, his life became like a runaway horse, galloping straight down an increasingly bizarre path without looking back.
One day, Xuan Yin happened to find a woman beneath a cliff, so badly injured that even ghosts wouldn't recognize her. The System suddenly appeared and told him that this woman was his fated nemesis, destined to pursue him for the rest of his life: Qu Shiqing.
Of course, she wasn't yet the heaven-blessed heroine Qu Shiqing. She was just Qu Jiu, a covert guard who had recently betrayed her master and was covered in wounds.
The Qu Shiqing in the novel was born with a Daoist constitution, beautiful and otherworldly. She would become the leader of the righteous path and the lost daughter of the Tai Xuan Sect's leader, the top sect in the cultivation world. She was also the Dragon-Aotian transmigrator's first wife and greatest cheat. She was the polar opposite of the battered, disfigured woman in front of him.
Xuan Yin studied the woman for a long time, chin in hand. He was curious about his future nemesis, and his fingers were itching after spending too long without going out to pick up trash.
Before the Tai Xuan Sect elders arrived, he decided to reluctantly take this ragged nemesis with him and examine her himself.
There was big news at the Tai Xuan Sect: the sect master's youngest daughter, cherished by the entire sect, turned out to be an impostor.
After a heated discussion that lasted all night, the sect master ordered people to bring back his daughter, lost in the mortal world. Gu Xuanzhi, the Tai Xuan Sect's foremost disciple, led the party himself, accompanied by four elders to show how seriously they took the matter. But when they reached the place indicated by the divination, there wasn't a soul in sight.
The Dragon-Aotian male lead Gu Xuanzhi, who had transmigrated into the book and knew the plot, had come to retrieve her: “?”
Where was my huge, fated wife?!
[A heroine who says, “As long as I stay alive, everything else is whatever,” but secretly works harder than everyone else, with reliable dry humor and an unconventional Phoenix-Aotian spirit × a Demon Lord with a sharp tongue and a good attitude who picks up anything interesting he sees. Though it may not be obvious, they're both beautiful, powerful, and tragic.]
A few things to know before reading:
1. This story also goes by the names “My Coworker Keeps Saying ‘Whatever’ and Then Working Herself to Death. What's Her Deal?”, “My Boss Keeps Bringing Home Trash. Should I Pretend Not to Notice?”, “The Righteous Leader and the Demon Lord Have Gotten This Far. Is There Any Hope for the Cultivation World?”, and “Whatever, Whatever, Whatever.”
2. The tone is still wavering between serious and lighthearted, so the blurb may change before the story begins, but the core premise should stay the same.
3. The blurb was screenshotted and archived on 9/17/24. Please cherish your reputation.
4. More will be added if I think of anything.
Theme: The world is full of tricks and conventions, so learn to live on your own terms
