The Sword Cultivator Insists on Offering Himself to Me

Also known as: After the Tragic Novel's Female Lead Awakens

[Adorable, Self-Assured Junior Sister × Scheming, Devoted Puppy-Dog Hero]

Mu Qing is a junior sister of the Acacia Sect with poor aptitude. Years of cultivation have gotten her nowhere.

One day, a thing called the No-Open-Ending System suddenly informs her that she is the female lead of an unfinished tragic novel.

In the original story, the male lead, the greatest swordsman of his generation, loses the woman he loves and marries Mu Qing as her substitute, tormenting her body and heart. After killing his wife to prove his Dao, he regrets it and pursues her.

But the story was left unfinished. In the ending, she never forgives the male lead, and just before he kills her to prove his Dao, an unknown villain in black stabs her to death.

She finds the whole thing baffling and doesn't believe a word of it. That is, until the next day, when the greatest swordsman really does ask her master for her hand in marriage.

Realizing she'll become the wife he kills to prove his Dao,

she flees the wedding overnight and heads down the mountain, hoping only to settle in some quiet town and live in peace.

Who could have guessed that after she rescues an injured swordsman along the way,

he would cling to her and insist on repaying her with his hand in marriage?

She is horrified.

Wait, there's no one like you in the book!

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She quickly knocks him out and is just about to make her escape when the No-Open-Ending System suddenly springs back to life and tells her in alarm: The swordsman unconscious in the bed is the unknown villain in black.

Mu Qing: So he's my savior!

The System adds that she is bound to the male lead, and no matter how far she runs, he will find her and force the plot to continue.

Seeing her dream of a quiet retirement go up in smoke, Mu Qing can only cling to the swordsman's leg in tears and pretend she already has a fiance.

A few days later, however, she gets a face-slapping reversal.

To fulfill the System's ultimate goal, finish the plot without leaving it unfinished and achieve a perfect happy ending, she has to choose a new male lead.

Mu Qing looks at the villain, and a thought stirs. Isn't there a perfect candidate right in front of her?

So she makes the villain the male lead.

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One true pairing, both leads are each other's only ones. The female lead grows throughout the story, and the male lead is beautiful, powerful, and tragic.

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After the Crown Prince Is Forced to Marry His Archrival's Little Sister

[Playful, Incredibly Strong Younger Sister × Prim and Proper Crown Prince Who Keeps Himself in Check]

As crown prince, Xie Yanbing has an archrival: the Duke of Wei's legitimate son, who is also his companion in study.

One excels at letters, the other at arms, and together they are renowned throughout the capital. Everyone thinks the young man will become Xie Yanbing's right-hand man, but Xie Yanbing can't stand him. Even when the man was his study companion, Xie Yanbing treated him as his sworn enemy.

Fortunately, the Duke of Wei was ordered to take his whole family to the frontier. Xie Yanbing never saw his study companion again.

Six years later, the frontier army decisively defeats the enemy nation and returns to the capital for rewards. The Duke of Wei's family is among them.

After all these years, Xie Yanbing has become much more composed.

He thinks that even if his archrival hasn't changed a bit, he can still sit down and have a cup of tea with him in peace...

As if!

Looking at the young man hanging upside down outside his window, grinning at him, Xie Yanbing snaps the brush in his hand.

Peacefully? Absolutely not. Once he ascends the throne, he'll send that pest right back to the frontier!

Before he can figure out how to deal with the man, one piece of bad news follows another. The empress summons him to the palace and says his father is going to arrange a marriage for him.

His crown princess is the Duke of Wei's daughter, his archrival's own younger sister.

Xie Yanbing: ...Is there no other eligible woman in the capital?

Xie Yanbing doesn't want his archrival as a brother-in-law, and he doesn't want to see that face every day. The Duke of Wei's children are twins, a boy and a girl.

But he is the crown prince. He can't refuse.

And so, with ten miles of wedding finery and an eight-man bridal sedan,

his archrival's little sister becomes his crown princess.

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Mu Mingyue has a secret: she likes the crown prince.

So after her twin brother became the crown prince's study companion, she tied up her hair, donned a scholar's cap, and took his place, staying by the crown prince's side at all times.

But her good fortune didn't last. The Duke of Wei's family was heading to the frontier to fight. Before leaving the capital, she blocked the crown prince's way and, with a fierce expression, told him he wasn't allowed to marry and had to wait for her to return.

The crown prince didn't agree. She scared him into tears.

Mu Mingyue was beaten for it, too.

Six years later, her father returned to the capital by imperial order. The crown prince had remembered their promise and still hadn't married.

She was delighted. The first thing she did after returning to the capital was go see him. He had grown even more handsome! She liked him even more.

But when he saw her, he was furious.

Mu Mingyue thinks he's angry because she was gone for so many years, but that's all right. She's back now.

They can get married, too!

Theme: Strive hard and let your own brilliance shine.