[Wuxia Crossover] Sparse Shadows Slant Across

A comprehensive martial arts harem-genre story written purely for my own enjoyment.

The plot-to-romance ratio is about 6:4.

I won't sign a contract, and the whole novel is free to read.

Mei Shuying: I'm in a martial arts world. I just finished sleeping with Lu Xiaofeng, Chu Liuxiang is waiting outside, Fu Hongxue is on his way with a saber, and in three months I'll have a sword duel with Ximen Chuixue where victory or defeat is tied to life or death. What should I do next? Asking online, and I'm in a real hurry.

The original male protagonist, Mei Shuying, is a half-baked miracle doctor and a swordsman (he only draws his sword to save people). His combat ability fluctuates wildly (he has a debuff), and his lightness skill is superb (but he isn't good at hiding himself).

The setting combines The Border Town Prodigal, The Legend of Lu Xiaofeng, The Legend of Chu Liuxiang, The Sentimental Swordsman, Ruthless Sword, and The Peerless Twins. The plot will mainly focus on original events and factions I've created by combining elements from the source material. Mei Shuying will take a relatively small part in the original plots, though other characters may follow some of those plots in the background.

Mei Shuying has transmigrated, but his memories from before transmigrating are hazy. He only finished reading The Legend of Lu Xiaofeng and The Legend of Chu Liuxiang. He only knows Li Xunhuan by name from The Sentimental Swordsman, Ruthless Sword, and hasn't read The Peerless Twins or The Border Town Prodigal at all, nor does he know their characters. (He does know Hua Wuque and Xiao Yuer from The Peerless Twins, but they haven't been born yet at this point in the story.)

The protagonist is attracted to both men and women. Some original female characters and a very small number of female characters from the source material will fall for him. Some characters will have one-sided crushes on him, and he has dated other people (men), but the ending is 1v1. The supporting character list includes those with explicit romantic feelings for the protagonist: Chu Liuxiang, Ji Bingyan, Lu Xiaofeng, Ximen Chuixue, Ye Kai, Fu Hongxue, Jiang Feng, and two hidden characters (revealing their names would basically count as a spoiler).

I won't reveal who ends up with the protagonist, because anyone reading for that would find that the two of them spend less than 50% of the story together.

I'd rather write about Mei Shuying meeting different people in the jianghu.

Although the protagonist is fairly upright and law-abiding, he isn't purely good, for certain reasons.

May contain morally questionable behavior.

This contains lots of things I personally like. If that's not your thing, just click X.

Sparse shadows slant across clear, shallow water.

Mei Shuying has a pair of beautiful eyes. Everyone who sees them remembers them forever, and once they've seen them, they can't stop thinking about them. That's why he, unwillingly forced into a life of romantic entanglements, finds this so troublesome.

Besides, is having a pair of eyes like that really a good thing?

Neither the sudden, recurring pain in his eyes nor the suffering caused to people he firmly rejects is something Mei Shuying wants to see.

Theme: Sparse shadows slant across clear, shallow water; a faint fragrance drifts beneath the moon at dusk.