In This Circle, It’s Called “Following”

*Main story complete

For a long time, Yu Qing lived like a wicked female side character, as if her only purpose in life were to make her stepsister look outstanding and kind.

After getting a second chance at life, she suddenly figured it out. If she was destined never to receive love, then getting money instead sounded pretty good.

Dad: She’s in a bad mood, so we won’t throw you a birthday party this year.

Yu Qing: That’s fine. Just give me the cash equivalent.

Brother: She really likes your bracelet.

Yu Qing: I like your house even more.

Fiance: She needs me right now.

Yu Qing: You can go, but you’ll have to compensate me first.

After raking in a huge sum, the first thing Yu Qing did was seek out the childhood friend who’d been kicked out of his home: the unlucky Jiang Xinghe, who’d died even earlier than she had.

Young Master Jiang: ...If I understand you correctly, are you saying you want to keep me?

Yu Qing: Be civilized. In our circles, we call it “being kept.”

Young Master Jiang, who was still in those circles three days ago: ...

Note: The heroine is only taking back the money she is owed. She does nothing illegal, and her relationship with the hero is healthy and positive.

Blurb:

Gui Mingyue transmigrates into a cultivation novel as a rogue cultivator of the Dual Cultivation Path.

Only by dual cultivating with the most powerful cultivation partner can she tear through the void and return to the real world.

Now, who in the whole novel could possibly be more powerful than the male lead?

When she arrives, the male lead, Mo Qinghong, has just had his spiritual root shattered by his sect and been thrown into Ten Thousand Withered Ravine.

According to the original story, Mo Qinghong will have to scrape by at the bottom of the ravine for years before he finds an immortal herb that can restore his spiritual root. After that, he’ll rise to power and crush his enemies.

But...

The moment he falls off the cliff, Gui Mingyue, who knows the plot, carries him home.

She brings the immortal herb home with him, too.

Restoring Mo Qinghong’s spiritual root will take time, so Gui Mingyue makes a deal with him. She’ll take him on as her disciple and help him recover and cultivate. In return, he’ll be her cultivation partner.

They hit it off, and spend twenty years getting up to all sorts of things.

At last, Gui Mingyue breaks through in her cultivation and successfully tears through the void to return to... No, she fails.

Instead of reaching the real world, she lands a hundred years after the main story ends. She’s been poisoned with a love toxin that can only be cured with the body of her cheap disciple, and all her power has been wiped out.

Gui Mingyue: T_T

She knows the drill. Starting over is no big deal.

But...

A hundred years ago, as she tore through the void, she got carried away and told the male lead everything: that she was a transmigrator and the real reason she’d been dual cultivating with him.

Remembering his reddened eyes, filled with resentment, back then, and looking now at the cold, aloof ruler of the cultivation world before her, Gui Mingyue realizes she has a serious problem.

#The master thinks it was mutually beneficial; the disciple thinks she seduced him and abandoned him

#The story should have started a hundred years later

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