I Arrived When the Empress Was in Decline

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After Shi Wantang died in an explosion in the modern world, she transmigrated into a cultivation novel about a female emperor.

She was a deranged senior disciple who, in a world where love between women was taboo, forced the future female emperor to become her fiancée.

The only way to escape being dismembered was to cultivate to the Deification and Body Integration realms and return to the modern world.

Shi Wantang: "???"

Break off the engagement! Take spirit pills! Repair my spiritual roots!

Deification and Body Integration, here I come!

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At the engagement-breaking, however, the future female emperor claimed she was pregnant with Shi Wantang's child and demanded she take responsibility.

When Male Simp Number One tried to ambush her,

the future female emperor struck back with a vicious slash.

The simp: "The hatred of having your wife stolen is irreconcilable. Shi Wantang, just you wait!"

When Male Simp Number Two provoked her,

the future female emperor gave him a cold look, and he was rewarded with the Ten Great Tortures.

Shi Wantang: "Damn it, my hatred score has doubled."

When Male Simp Number Three turned into a wicked flood dragon and tried to devour her,

the future female emperor stepped in, cut open its stomach, refined its core, and greatly boosted Shi Wantang's power.

Shi Wantang: "Uh..."

Something had definitely gone wrong.

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To lower her hatred score and keep her head down until her strength was established,

Shi Wantang picked up a disfigured female cultivator as a cultivation partner.

Though the woman was ugly, she was kind, giving Shi Wantang spirit medicines and magic artifacts. She was a hundred times better than the future female emperor, who did nothing but exploit her all day.

Until one night, her cultivation partner suffered qi deviation and crawled into her arms, eyes red, like a fierce but pitiful beast.

Shi Wantang: "?"

Her cultivation partner: "Choose one. Do you want me, or your fiancée?"

Shi Wantang brushed aside her messy hair and kissed the scars on her face. "Good girl. I want you."

The next morning, as she watched the woman in her arms gradually reveal the face of the female emperor, Shi Wantang fell into deep thought.

Had she taken advantage of the female emperor while she was at her lowest?

[Play the pig to eat the tiger, then fall in love and become fiercely direct about it, gong x ruthless and fiercely protective, sharp-tongued but soft-hearted, sensitive and easily addicted, imperial shou]

--The best time to love someone is when you first meet. The next best time is now.

[Blunt gong x prickly shou]

[One-on-one, each other's first love, mutual taming, women having children with women]

[Also known as: After Spoiling the Female Emperor's Future, We Got Our Happy Ending]

[Equal parts plot and romance]

[Cultivation + Cthulhu-inspired world]

[The plot unfolds alongside the romance]

Thesis: The best time to love someone is when you first meet. The next best time is now.