The Cultivation World’s Number One Romance Cultivator

Chao Qianxi is a love cultivator.

She cultivates the art of passing through a field of flowers without a single leaf clinging to her.

She believes in loving freely without giving in to lust, and pursues the Great Way of Love, experiencing all the bitterness of life through love until she reaches the point where feeling everything means no longer being ruled by feelings.

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While traveling the path of cultivation, she was once gravely injured and blinded. So she grabbed a male cultivator with a Water Spirit Root and used him to replenish her own energy.

Once she had mostly recovered, she got dressed and went their separate ways.

After all, it had only been a fleeting encounter, and he had been compensated. That was the end of it.

Who would have thought that she had actually provoked someone she could not afford to cross?

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Chao Qianxi was a good-for-nothing with terrible talent in the cultivation world, and she was poor, too.

She dreamed of eating, drinking, having fun, and coasting through life. It really was one of her great goals.

As the only pillar of her family, she had to earn money to support them and find spiritual medicine for her gravely ill younger brother.

Until one day, she learned from someone else that her younger brother was not ill at all. He was attending an elite academy, where he had risen above the rest and was living in glory.

Only then did she realize how wretched her life had been. She was an orphan who had been adopted.

Her Spirit Root had been cut out when she was young, and everyone around her had been using her.

Her life had been a complete mess.

At last, one day, she found the family she had lost years ago. They were powerful figures in the cultivation world.

On the day she was welcomed back into the family, her powerful grandfather smiled and told her, "My dear granddaughter, congratulations on returning to our big family!"

He spoke earnestly: "You are the thirty-sixth legitimate heir of the foremost immortal sect in the land."

Chao Qianxi stared at him in astonishment. "You... you mean I'm the heir?!"

"That's right. You'll hold a position that commands everyone's attention in the cultivation world. Every cultivator will have to show you respect, and you'll have more wealth than you can count."

"We never told you because we wanted to temper your character and let you grow up to stand on your own. You really did live up to our expectations. You've done very well."

"I'm old now, and there are many things I can no longer manage, even if I want to. So now, I have something important to tell you."

Chao Qianxi paused, barely containing her excitement. Could it be that he was about to name her the next head of the family and pass down the family business?

"Our family has gone bankrupt. We're buried in debt, and everyone's cursing us. We can only start a marriage alliance and betroth you to the head of the Spirit Clan. Don't worry, he's rich. If you don't like him, once he helps you settle the debts, you can always dump him."

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Her smile froze. This was bad. They were coming for her!

She cursed and complained inwardly: What the hell? They're bringing arranged marriages and marrying off women to pay off debts into the cultivation world? Is something wrong with their heads?

She rubbed her temples with a headache and let out a breath. "Call off the marriage."

Her grandfather was a coward. He fidgeted and stammered, "Why didn't you say so sooner? The wedding date is already set, and we've accepted quite a few betrothal gifts. I can't afford to offend him. Why don't you go discuss it with that Sword Saint yourself?"

Now that she was the leader of a sect, calling off the engagement was no difficult matter. She simply sent a letter breaking it off and returned the gifts the way they had come.

She figured the Sea Clan's palace lord was a sword cultivator, surely a righteous and proper sort of person. He certainly wouldn't like a partner who spent her days carousing and was so flirtatious.

So she spent every day chasing romance and drinking, having such a good time that she forgot the world around her.

One day, as she lingered in a pleasure house, a former lover somehow found her. He swept aside the beaded, perfumed curtain, his face dark as he pulled her to her feet. Holding back his anger, he produced a red sheet covered in black writing and enunciated every word: "You promised me this yourself. What do you mean by going back on your word now?"

She recognized the man and remembered making that promise, but she had never taken it seriously. Neither had anyone else. This lovesick Sword Saint, however, had thrown himself into the role.

Under the shocked stares of everyone present, she was silent for a moment, then smiled and used the thirty-six stratagems, choosing to play dumb and make a quick escape. "Oh, dear! The Sword Saint is drunk. Don't take him seriously, everyone! Eat and drink your fill. It's on me."

But the man before her refused to let it go. He even pushed aside the male attendant sitting beside her and took the seat at her side, wearing a meaningful smile. "Do I look like a drunkard to you?"

As soon as he finished speaking, whispers broke out around them, and rumors began to spread.

Character setup

A drama-loving heroine x a harem of four jealous men:

Her warm, sunny childhood friend, like the older brother next door;

The deep-scheming young lord of the demon realm;

Her sworn enemy, the sinister ruler of the bizarre realm;

And the aloof, untouchable Sword Lord, driven to obsession after being teased by her, yet unable to win her heart.

Coming soon

● Coming soon in my author profile: "The Cannon Fodder Side Character's Main-Character Treatment"

● Heng Shu x Guan Xi. See my author profile for details.

Can a brilliant, beautiful side character with an impeccable plan really only lose to a heroine blessed with all the Heavenly Dao's fortune?

A supporting character's role, a protagonist's entire life.

Alternate title: [After Sworn Enemies Were Bound by a Romance System]

Additional notes

1. Plot-driven [leveling up and fighting monsters / satisfying face-slapping / a good-for-nothing's comeback / melodramatic cultivation / gender reversal].

Personal setting: Love cultivators are highly charming and adored by everyone. The male supporting characters also have romantic storylines.

(Some additional notes are in the author's comments on the first chapter.)

2. The male supporting characters have romantic storylines, but nothing goes beyond that. Both the male and female leads are sexually inexperienced.

The male lead is cool and reserved, not aloof. His cool reserve is a protective mask, not his true nature.

3. I require the male lead and male supporting characters to uphold gentlemanly standards throughout the story. The heroine can do as she pleases.

4. Any changes to the story are revisions and typo corrections.

Theme: Living life well matters more than anything else