After My Husband Pierced My Heart with His Sword, I Unlocked Guide Skills

#Sentinel-and-guide cultivation + cyber AI + anomalous containment world#

[Blurb]

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Nine years after her spiritual meridians were destroyed, Yue Jianqing, a collateral member of one of the lower five sects, was sent as a substitute bride. Alone, she climbed the main peak of Mingjing Sect, the foremost of the upper five sects, to the wedding hall.

The young sect leader, Yan Jueling, was praised by the ten sects as “a gentleman of upright character, honest even when unobserved.” He refused to perform the wedding rites, claiming he had to hurry to the front lines to handle military affairs, and did not enter the bridal chamber for a year.

Later, someone dragged Yue Jianqing by the hair, a sword pressed to her throat, and she met the husband she had never seen before at a frontline encampment.

Yan Jueling stared at her face and gave a soft laugh.

“Using a Yue family woman to control me?”

“Dream on.”

Without hesitation, he ran her through with his sword.

2.

Rumors spread among the ten sects that the young madam of Mingjing Sect had been wounded by a villain, her heart meridian pierced, and had been saved by the young sect leader. Since then, the two had become inseparable. Everyone who saw them sighed that they were a model couple, perfectly harmonious and an example to the righteous path.

The night the news reached Mingjing Sect, rebels stormed the forbidden grounds to steal the defensive map. Yue Jianqing saw with her own eyes as a villain, armed with a long spear, broke through the main peak and charged into the rear mountain, carrying dozens of the dead men's heads on the spear.

The intruder removed his hood, revealing the young sect leader's deathly pale face. His eyes suddenly grew unfocused.

Yue Jianqing endured the shock of a rank-crossing mental-domain inducement, picked up the mask he had knocked away, and turned to run.

In an instant, someone caught her by the wrist.

Yue Jianqing turned around with a pitiful look, covering her lips coquettishly. “Husband, why are you here? You frightened me.”

Yan Jueling's eyes were dark. With one hand, he pulled the blade from his chest and pressed it into her palm. With the other, he wiped away the trace of blood at the corner of her mouth from the backlash.

“Careful, madam. The backlash will give you a headache. It's my fault for waking up too soon.” He tightened his grip on her wrist and plunged the blade into his own chest. “If you're still angry, would you like to stab me again?”

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[Reading Guide]

1. A seemingly pure but secretly dark and obsessive guide x a fallen-from-grace gentlemanly god of war. A cultivation-world Mr. and Mrs. Smith, with a record of a twisted romance between a powerful manipulator and a possessive controller.

2. A female lead who grows through mental powers. Her combat ability is low and she plays it safe at first, but she becomes the one and only top-tier powerhouse later. She isn't a traditionally kind and virtuous character, and often swings between chaotic neutral and chaotic good. Both her career and romance are driven by self-interest and suspicion, so readers with high moral standards should proceed with caution.

3. The leads are a deeply compatible pair of madwoman and madman, but both ghosts have strong ghostly ethics. Their sick relationship only hurts each other, and no innocent working stiff gets killed off by the plot because of their romance.

4. My own worldbuilding. The female and male leads are natives of the cultivation world; transmigrators are important supporting characters.

Theme: “I want the freedom to be myself, and the courage to be myself.”, Lin Yutang, My Wish