After the Princess's Loyal Dog Turned Dark

The full story is complete as of February 13. Thanks to all the lovely readers for supporting the original! My completed novel, A Guide to Faking Your Death as the Immortal World's White Moonlight, is in my author profile. Its blurb is at the very bottom. [Arrogant, ambitious princess & a loyal general who turns dark] Yin Moli was a once-in-a-century military genius of the Great Sheng. He distinguished himself time and again while still young. No one knew that he joined the army and earned his honors just so Princess Yunling would look at him one more time. The young general, exempt from kneeling before the emperor, bowed and submitted only to her. But all he got in return was a single remark from the ill-tempered princess: "What a good dog." * Murong Yunling was the most adored princess of the Great Sheng. She was breathtakingly beautiful and did whatever she pleased. She even intended to fight for the throne. And the beggar boy she had casually saved as a child had grown into a general, becoming her most loyal attack dog. But no matter how much he sacrificed, even offering up his life, she couldn't care less. He was just a dog. She had thousands of them. * When it was time to choose a consort, she ordered him to investigate. His answer was that "none of them are worthy." "Your Highness, I will find the best consort for you." How could those spoiled young noblemen lay a finger on his moonlight? Whenever she so much as glanced at them, jealousy drove him mad. He wanted to kill them. * Later, Murong Yunling was falsely accused of treason. Her father was gravely ill and unconscious, and her elder brother took control of the government and ordered her execution. Yin Moli risked everything to break into the imperial prison and rescue her. But she never expected that her most loyal dog would become a wolf and imprison her in a splendid cage. Yunling flew into a rage and hurled the porcelain cup in her hand at him. The golden chains around her ankles jingled as she moved. "Imprisoning a member of the imperial family is a capital crime!!" "Who gave you the nerve?! How dare you treat me like this!" Yin Moli didn't dodge. The cup struck his forehead, and blood ran down his handsome face. He wasn't angry. He bent down and kissed her soft lips. Her curses turned to sobs, which he swallowed whole. "It was Your Highness who named me Moli." "If Your Highness behaves, I will personally give you anything you want." Reading guide 1. A domineering pursuit trope. The male lead seems like a cool, aloof general, but is actually an extremely possessive maniac. He won't stay so forceful for long. 2. The heroine is a cruel beauty, focused solely on claiming the throne and indifferent to every man. Don't read this if you expect the heroine to meet high moral standards. Completed novel: A Guide to Faking Your Death as the Immortal World's White Moonlight Blurb In the cultivation world, how do you quickly win over the cold-hearted male lead and become his white moonlight? System: I suggest getting pregnant and then faking your death. Shen Jinli: Huh? Are you some kind of old-fashioned, melodramatic fertility System? System: This is the fastest method calculated by this System. The Host can choose measures such as seduction or a fake pregnancy to quickly complete the mission. Shen Jinli: Listen to yourself. Does that sound like something a person would say? 1 The System produced a sexy, alluring outfit with a battle-worn look. "The first male lead is Rong Zhao, the leader of the Xuanji Sect. He's gentle and refined, so he probably won't leave you to die. He should be the easiest to win over." Shen Jinli looked at the indifferent man casually planting a fatal curse on a demonic cultivator. Her eyelid twitched. "Are you sure??" Rong Zhao had seen through the secrets of heaven for nearly a thousand years and hated getting entangled in karmic ties more than anything. When the female cultivator came to him in tears for help, he saw through her clumsy tricks at a glance. "Everyone has their own fate. You must overcome this tribulation yourself." Later, after divining the outcome thousands of times, he still couldn't find even the slightest chance for her to survive. He tossed aside his bloodstained divination compass, madness seeping into his gentle eyes. "If this tribulation has no solution, then I'll change your fate myself!" 2 After finally signing off, the System said sheepishly, "That was a mistake. The second one will definitely be easy to win over!" Seeing that the second male lead had the debuff "afflicted by a love spell," Shen Jinli reluctantly decided to trust it once more. The System teleported her to his cave dwelling and produced several sexy little dresses. "Let's get this over with quickly. We just need to make him fall for you a little, then we'll leave!" Shen Jinli: "?" Shen Jinli: "He's not the male lead of some explicit-content-restricted novel, is he?!" System: ... (looks up at the sky in silence) Xiao Yixian was the supreme sword cultivator, born with a sword bone, yet a demonic cultivator had planted a love spell in him. He killed that demonic cultivator, cultivated the Heartless Dao, and no female cultivator dared approach him again. Until one day, he returned to his cave dwelling to suppress the love spell as it flared up, only to find a beautiful female cultivator there. Shen Jinli, who was thrown out without ceremony: "..." What happened to that love-spell debuff you promised me?! 3 After being tricked by the System several times, Shen Jinli declared that she would choose the next male lead herself. The System's mission panel showed that the Demon King Long Xuan was about to reach a near-death plot point. Shen Jinli: "It's him. This time, I'll be the hero who saves the beauty." Demon King Long Xuan hated humans more than anything. He had never imagined that one day he would be saved by a human. And a frail female cultivator with a low level of cultivation, at that. The nth time she mistook him for a snake and tried to stuff a mouse into his mouth, he finally snapped. "Stop it, human! Are you tired of living?!" But when he discovered that she had once had a partner, His golden eyes narrowed to dangerous slits. He bound her hands and pinned her firmly to the bed. "If you want to cling to the Demon King, how dare you carry another male's stench?" 4 The last male lead was a Buddhist cultivator. Looking at the alluring yet transcendent face in his profile, Shen Jinli exclaimed, "This one's great! This one's really great!" Everyone knew that Xuandu, the Buddhist Son of the Chan Sect, had been born with a Buddha's bones and a clear mind. He was the most compassionate of all the powerful cultivators. Until the day a young woman walked barefoot across the red lotuses blooming in the Buddhist temple and tucked a peony into his hair. "If Buddha won't save me, will you, Master?" "Benefactress, you are too attached to your desires." No one knew that the desire for her he had suppressed while cultivating had caused the pure light of his enlightenment to breed the foulest of inner demons. 5 After faking her death, Shen Jinli lived freely. System: "Host, something terrible has happened!" Shen Jinli was utterly confused. "Didn't I finish the mission?" System: "That's not it. The four male leads have been looking for you. They're fighting at the door!" Theme: Stand on your own, be confident, and grow stronger.