The Five Gluttons

[This was my first work, and the early chapters are a mess. It's a huge pit that's hard to fill. I've contacted my editor to remove it from premium. Read at your own risk.]

Fantasy title in my author page: The Martial Arts Peak Has a Problem, a Lovecraftian cultivation story with a female lead

Ning Xiao, heir to the Prince of Xiao, was once the most spoiled young scion in the capital.

One day at school, she saw a second-generation rich kid she despised leading a group of boys in bullying a sickly, pitiful child.

Unable to stand by while injustice was done, she charged over in a fit of righteous anger and punched the instigator until he was crying for his parents.

She became famous after that fight! But on the way to and from school, she began to notice a shadow out of the corner of her eye, following at a distance like a tail she couldn't shake.

Later, the little demon ran around causing trouble in the name of punishing evil and promoting good. Even her grandfather couldn't take it anymore and sent her up the mountain to cultivate in the middle of the night.

Life in seclusion was dull. Though the little princess remained haughty, she had no choice but to take up swords and learn martial arts.

Then her grandfather suddenly died, and she realized there was something suspicious about the cause...

In a single night, she saw how treacherous people's hearts could be. From then on, she hid her sharpness, lay low in the mountains, and swore to personally avenge her family!

She used herself as bait in the case of the wasteland. Trapped in prison, she was rescued by a mysterious youth wearing a sinister Nuo mask.

He was Lian Shanyi, one of the four deputy ministers of the Department of Justice and the head of the Sparrow Hall. Rumor had it that he was cruel and eccentric, his movements ghostlike, with the blood of countless demons on his hands and a heart too cold to care about anyone.

This cold-faced god of death acted like a grinning fool around her. The incongruity made her wary. Yet one day, when she looked up, his figure seemed strangely familiar.

Later, at the brink of death, an enemy pierced her heart and sent her plunging off a cliff. Someone desperately seized her and pulled her back into his arms.

Her return from the brink left him panicked and disoriented. When his mask slipped, she was stunned to see his face. It was someone she had known in the capital!

Ning Xiao stared in disbelief, memories surging back. How had the shy, sickly boy from years ago become the black-clad demon standing before her?

"You... Yin?"

At her words, he grabbed her fingertips and sneered darkly. "Sis, don't lump me in with that useless waste!"

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From the day she learned the two men shared one body but had separate spirits, Ning Xiao was put through one ordeal after another.

Unable to withstand the man's tearful, retreating advances, she hesitated, and by then he'd already pulled half her clothes off. Feeling guilty, she had no choice but to wrap the jade slip recording the scene in spiritual energy.

The next day, just as expected...

You Ling barged in with a grand show of force and slapped the jade slip onto the table in front of her. "Did you think that shutting off my 'little eye' would make me not know?"

Ning Xiao's eyes darted around guiltily. "I didn't..."

You Ling gave a vicious snort. "Hah! You know damn well whether you did or not!" He grabbed her face and kissed her hard. As she sat there stunned, he bit her lip, then turned and walked away.

Ning Xiao was furious too. She shouted, "You bastard!!!"

The next morning, she woke to find that the bastard beside her had turned into someone wearing a worried frown.

You Yin: "Senior Sister, how could he bite you like that? Does it hurt? If it were me, I would never let my sister hurt..."

His voice was gentle and considerate, but the fingertip rubbing hard against her lip revealed just how foul his mood was.

His rubbing made the split in her lip sting. Ning Xiao shuddered. This one wasn't any easier to deal with than the other!

Fantasy cultivation, not xianxia | low martial arts, low magic | Original title: Five Foods

One woman and two men, female-led romance, both male leads have only been with the female lead, happy ending

The heroine is worldly and rather innocent at first, but is forced to grow later. The plot follows both the younger generation and the entanglements of the older generation; all of it together makes up the complete story of Five Foods. The man who appears out of nowhere is her childhood friend, and her childhood friend is also her junior brother. The two male leads are different versions of the same person.

A fictional cultivation system based on Taoism, with seven ranks: Light and Ease, Spiritual Clarity, Soaring Through the Clouds, Self-Mastery, Egolessness, Spirit Travel, and the Great Void/Heavenly Dao

Upcoming in my author page: The Martial Arts Peak Has a Problem, a Lovecraftian cultivation story with a female lead

A real ghost man x an aloof beauty

Theme: "Life is like a journey through the wilderness, and I too am a traveler."