Abandoning That Cauldron Every Day

[Reborn After Awakening, She Switches to the Heartless Path, Only to Have Her Cultivation Ruined: The Elder of the Hehuan Sect & A Scheming Little Fox Who Only Wants to Share a Night of Passion with the Heroine]

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

The young man lay there as his thin robe slipped from his trembling shoulders. He was utterly alluring.

But Lu Jinyao had no romantic thoughts whatsoever. The moment she walked in, she picked him up and tossed him outside.

As the villainess in this book, in her previous life she had drained the nine-tailed fox of his spiritual energy by taking too much from him, then casually abandoned him once he was spent. When he returned, consumed by darkness, he killed her.

If he was going to kill her, how could she possibly want him?

She had just tossed him out when she turned around and saw the boy who should have been outside lying on the bed.

Lu Jinyao: "I'm seeing things."

Lu Jinyao tried several times, but couldn't get rid of him. She even tried to kill him, but before she could succeed, he appeared by the door again.

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

She gave in. That night, she kept her distance, pretended not to hear his agonized sounds, and held out until dawn.

After that, whenever the plot reached the part where she was supposed to draw on his spiritual energy, the scene would repeat endlessly unless she stayed with him. In her previous life, she had drained his spiritual energy almost every day.

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

She stayed on guard day and night, but still ended up cultivating with him.

When she woke, she met a pair of sinister eyes. His fox tail was wrapped tightly around her waist, as if it meant to strangle her.

Lu Jinyao immediately recognized him as the version who had fallen to darkness in her previous life, and killed him without hesitation.

But everything suddenly returned to the beginning. The young man had damp, foxlike eyes, and his tail unfurled to cling to her once more.

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The night he was sent to Lu Jinyao's room, Yan Qingshan couldn't understand why she wouldn't touch him.

In his previous life, he had clearly told her that she wanted him to be her cultivation furnace.

"She'll drain you dry and then abandon you without a second thought."

At first, Yan Qingshan only approached Lu Jinyao and tried to seduce her because of what his previous-life self had said.

Later, he couldn't help falling for her.

Until he realized that "his own" gaze toward her was gradually becoming just as dark and covetous as his.

He stayed on guard day and night, but "himself" still took over his body and did the thing he had longed for most.

After regaining control of his body, Yan Qingshan tilted his head back, the corners of his eyes red, and taunted "himself" in his heart:

"She's mine now."

[Female lead is not a virgin; male lead is a virgin. Both are reborn, and the male lead's past and present selves are one person.

A save-and-reload story: abandon her once, start over once, and the little fox controls the reloads.

In his previous life, the male lead chased the heroine after losing her.

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

A preview of my upcoming novel, The Villainess in a Brother-Sister Romance

Blurb:

Meng Shuxue was punished by being made to kneel in the ancestral hall.

There, she dug up an immortal object buried beneath the floor.

It was pale and tender, like tofu pudding or pig brain. When she touched it, it felt soft, wrapped in a slick membrane, and rather disgusting.

But she ate it.

She wanted to gain immortal powers and avoid being thrown out of the Meng residence and married off far away, only to die horribly on the road while trying to flee.

After a huge argument with her elder brother, Meng Shuxue had a dream.

In the dream, she was the villainess in a story about a brother and sister. She had been treated with boundless affection as Meng Fuqing's sister, but grew increasingly spoiled and domineering. Only Meng Fuqing could keep her in line.

Later, everyone discovered that she was not the Meng matriarch's biological daughter. When the real heiress of the Meng family was brought home, she gradually took away the affection and attention that had once belonged to Meng Shuxue.

Even Meng Fuqing stopped being as close to her as before and grew increasingly cold.

Unable to bear it, Meng Shuxue did something terrible and nearly killed the real heiress.

Meng Fuqing was furious and never saw her again. The Meng family hurriedly married her off far away.

Unwilling to leave, she fled on the way to her wedding.

But she died on the road back to the Meng residence, trying to find Meng Fuqing.

When Meng Shuxue woke, everything that happened matched her dream.

She remembered the immortal object from her dream, the one that would grant her powers if she ate it. She would eat it and gain immortal powers, and then she could change everything.

So what if she wasn't born to the Meng family? All she wanted was her elder brother.

Meng Shuxue waited eagerly for the day, seven days later, when she would gain her powers.

But then she noticed her stomach gradually growing, as if she were pregnant.

Terrified, she hid in her bedroom and didn't dare see anyone.

That continued until Meng Fuqing came home.

She pulled back the covers, afraid to touch her belly, and asked him fearfully, "Elder brother, what do we do?"

Meng Fuqing stared at her swollen belly and suddenly smiled.

What do they do?

Well, obviously...

Make it disappear.

How could there be another man's child in his sister's belly?

[It's not a real pregnancy.

Dark and twisted, with lots of melodrama. Very melodramatic.

The leads already know from the beginning that they are not related by blood.

The heroine is spoiled, can't endure hardship, throws tantrums, and isn't very bright. Run if this isn't your thing!

The hero supports the heroine unconditionally. Whatever his younger sister does is right.

A preview of my upcoming novel, Widowed, I Was Forced by My Dao Companion's Sword Spirit

Blurb:

Yun Xi was born with an alluring constitution and chosen to be a poison vessel. The plan was for her to marry Immortal Lord Qingheng, then transfer her poison to him during cultivation and kill him.

Once activated, the poison would flare up on the fifteenth of every month. Only cultivation together could suppress it, and it would flare up again on the fifteenth of the following month.

After nine times, the poison would have completely transferred to Qingheng, and he would be doomed to die.

Following instructions, Yun Xi successfully became Qingheng's Dao companion. But they cultivated together only once, on their wedding night. He never touched her again.

With the poison about to flare up, she had to cultivate with him to ease the symptoms.

But Qingheng died alongside the Demon Lord while quelling a demonic uprising. His body and soul were destroyed, leaving behind only his natal sword, named Tan Xue.

Yun Xi became a widow.

But the poison in her body had not yet been completely purged.

Yun Xi had never considered seeking anyone else. She was Qingheng's wife.

If she didn't get rid of the poison, it would torment her to death.

She turned her attention to the natal sword her dead Dao companion had left behind. After agonizing over it for days, she finally took hold of the sword.

Tan Xue was as cold as her dead Dao companion, like untouchable snow atop a mountain. It made her feel ashamed and guilty.

But a sword could only provide temporary relief.

She relied on Tan Xue more and more often, yet still couldn't suppress the poison.

Until one day, Tan Xue grew scorching hot. She was so frightened that she threw it away, only to see a figure appear.

The familiar face was reflected in her eyes, and Yun Xi stared in shock.

It was unmistakably her dead Dao companion!

There wasn't a trace of emotion in his eyes. His voice was cold and indifferent as he told her that he was the sword spirit of this blade, not Immortal Lord Qingheng, who had already died.

He had no memories of her or Qingheng.

Yun Xi didn't dare use a sword that had developed a sword spirit, even though the poison was tormenting her unbearably.

The sword spirit said he could help her, but she immediately refused. "I have a Dao companion."

"That dead Immortal Lord Qingheng?" The sword spirit scoffed. "You'll come begging me sooner or later."

Yun Xi did come to beg him. She truly couldn't take it anymore. The sword spirit's icy fingers gripped her waist, and his husky voice sounded by her ear.

"Weren't you going to remain faithful to your dead Dao companion? Giving up already?"

Yun Xi bit her lip and buried her face against his chest, pretending not to hear.

They had the same face, after all. Being with him... shouldn't count as betraying Qingheng, right?

The sword spirit is the male lead's soul. The male lead isn't dead; he came back as a ghost.

The male lead fell in love with the heroine at first sight. He initially has no memories after becoming a sword spirit, but he remembers later.

Theme: Love yourself.