It's Not Good to Go Crazy Over Your Dark Moonlight Master

A practice piece, not very well written.

Jian Xiyin was once the gentlest tyrant in the cultivation game From Zero to Found a Sect.

She broke the sword of a sword cultivator disciple, saying he had to temper his sword bones to achieve the Great Dao. She pushed a furious young man into the Ten Thousand Demons Pit, then opened her arms to him at the bottom of the abyss. She tricked her merman disciple into crying tears of blood, then praised his tears as beautiful as stars.

After she and her sect became the best under heaven and she had cleared every storyline, Jian Xiyin abandoned the game and ran away.

She never expected that, after transmigrating a thousand years into the future, she would lose all her cultivation and abilities and become the new sect leader of a tiny, rundown sect. Meanwhile, all her former disciples had grown into famous powerhouses. Now she not only has the responsibility of restoring her sect to glory, but also has to evade the pursuit of her former disciples, who are determined to search every inch of the land for her.

She may have treated them terribly back then, but hadn't they put that behind them? How can she get her obsessive disciples to put down their weapons? Maybe she should do them wrong all over again?

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“Didn't Master say you would only dote on me?” The Demon Lord crushed the soul-devouring parasite.

“Does Master still want my merman pearl?” The fallen merman's tentacles wound around her waist.

“How many more people are you going to deceive with that face...” The Sword Venerable pointed his sword at her throat, but his hand trembled so badly he could barely hold it.

Jian Xiyin smiled at them all. “Good, Master's favorite is...”

Before she could finish, several binding spells locked around her ankles at once.

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Note: 1. The female lead is gentle but secretly ruthless, and lies and manipulates people with ease.

2. A Mary Sue, adored by all. Every disciple is unhinged, and the male love interests aren't limited to the few mentioned in the blurb.

3. The female lead has purely mental abilities and gains no combat power, but she becomes incredibly powerful later on, and no one can beat her.

4. The female lead had no morals when playing the game, but all the male leads are chaste.

5. The female lead doesn't try to keep everyone happy. She does as she pleases and rewards whoever performs best.

Qi Refining - Foundation Establishment - Golden Core - Nascent Soul - Spirit Transformation - Great Ascension - Tribulation Transcendence - Ascension

Coming soon: The Ministers Beneath Her Skirts and the Ladder to Heaven (Reborn)

A calculating imperial consort X an ambitious, power-hungry minister

In her previous life, after entering the palace, Zhuang Fuyao spent her days treading carefully, yet she was still crushed to dust in the struggle for power.

Reborn into a new life, she finally understood: in this place that devours people, power is the only way forward.

She adopts a prince, determined to raise the wolf cub into a fierce tiger, even if she ends up raising a tiger that turns on her.

She seduces a powerful minister, using his influence to climb the ranks and his schemes to plot her own, even if it means inviting a wolf into her home.

She asks the young prince she adopted, “Do you want to be emperor? Whether you do or not, I want to be empress dowager.”

But even after becoming empress dowager, Zhuang Fuyao is still not satisfied.

She wants to stand above all others, not be The Outcast beneath just one person.

She wants Heaven's Mandate to be hers.

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Xiao Fan has a white moonlight in his heart: gentle, generous, and well-read.

He had planned to deal with the dangers around him and then ask for her hand, but she entered the palace, so he could only give up on the idea.

He never expected the moon to leap into his arms of her own accord. Only then did he discover that the moon he had longed for was steeped in the poison of ambition and scheming.

He had meant to pluck the bright moon into his arms, but instead became the eternal night that lifted it up.

Note: 1. The female lead ultimately becomes emperor.

2. Both the male and female leads are creatures of power. They will conspire for their own benefit, and turn against and betray each other for it, too.

3. The female lead is sexually experienced, while the male lead is chaste. She will use her looks and body to her advantage. As an imperial consort, she will sleep with the emperor.

4. There are a few palace intrigue scenes in the early chapters.

5. This is essentially a romance set in an imaginary version of China's five thousand years of history, without serious historical research.

Theme: Seek common ground while setting aside differences, and live together in harmony.