A Self-Rescue Guide for the Immortal Sect’s Public Enemy

My upcoming novel, I'll Win My Rival's One True Love by Writing, is gathering follows. The blurb is below.

[Obsessive clingy type x naturally spaced-out, unflappable junior sister]

In her previous life, Cheng Yan was an orphan picked up at the foot of the mountain by the sect leader. Though she was a once-in-a-century sword prodigy, all she wanted was to lie flat and live like a lazy fish, relying on the clingy little tagalong she had picked up, and on each other for survival.

But a scheming enemy drove her out, and when her true origins were revealed, she died by the swords of her fellow disciples.

When she was reborn and opened her eyes, she discovered she had lost her memory.

The good news: The ancient divine sword Chengying has chosen her as its master.

The bad news: She has no cultivation left and is immediately accused of murdering her master, stealing the sword, and slaughtering all eighty-one people in the sect.

But the rumored chief of the Tianshu Bureau protects her before all the cultivators, even at the cost of offending the cultivation world's leading sect, Lingxiao Sect. Cheng Yan is moved, but thoroughly confused.

This person is highly skilled, comes from a prestigious family, and seems aloof and solitary. Yet he tells her everything and protects and indulges her at every turn, speaking as if they were old acquaintances.

Cheng Yan: "? Did we know each other before?"

Shen Yuan: "I'll tell you later... I promise."

He won't say, and Cheng Yan can't be bothered to ask. But she absolutely refuses to lie flat and accept the blame for a crime dumped on her out of nowhere.

So, with a mind now as empty as a blank page and a human-shaped golden finger falling from the sky, she begins her long journey to clear her name.

Everyone calls her a vicious, ruthless fiend who deserves to die.

But no one can stop her from climbing Mount Shu and descending into demonic formations. She kicks traitors and cuts down evil spirits, weathering every assault as she breaks through all obstacles with a single sword. At the Alliance of Immortals, she defeats the head of Lingxiao Sect, shocks the entire assembly, clears her name, and claims the title of the greatest swordswoman alive.

Cheng Zhenren, an innocent lazy fish who accidentally blazed a trail through the entire cultivation world, spreads her hands helplessly. "I really just didn't want to be everyone's scapegoat anymore!"

[One man, one woman, one-on-one romance]

Coming soon:

Su Xiaoyu passes the imperial examination despite her humble origins, determined to serve the realm, but is assigned to the poorly paid, overworked Hanlin Academy. She nearly starves to death at home.

To earn extra money and stay alive, she writes popular fiction under the pen name Lantai Ke, and it unexpectedly becomes a sensation in the capital. But the law forbids government officials from holding side jobs. On the day she is due to submit her manuscript, she panics while fleeing the authorities, crashes into a carriage by the roadside, and falls into the arms of someone enveloped in a faint fragrance.

The next day, rumors spread everywhere: Grand Tutor Xie Yu has been caught in a carriage at night, disheveled and alone with an unfamiliar woman!

Grand Tutor Xie is famed for his peerless literary talent, radiant character, and unmatched beauty. He is the unattainable dream of countless people in the capital. Still unmarried in his twenties, he has even declared that he has no interest in romance.

Who could have guessed that she would ruin his good name at their first meeting, setting the whole city abuzz?

Su Xiaoyu consequently becomes a target of Grand Tutor Xie's ire, losing face before the assembled officials time and again. Everyone at court knows how badly the two get along.

Yet just as her family bookstore is on the brink of bankruptcy, she receives a secret letter from the Grand Tutor's residence, offering help...

After meeting Su Xiaoyu, Xie Yu spends the whole night dreaming of her. He wakes up mortified and furious, and the more he sees her, the more she gets on his nerves.

"Running a side business in plain sight? Investigate her thoroughly!"

When he sees Su Xiaoyu again, she claims to be a fan of Lantai Ke and says she has come to honor their correspondence.

Xie Yu: "A woman of taste, but a liar. Investigate her again!"

When they are ambushed by bandits, she takes his hand and runs with him through the brightly lit streets.

Remembering the warmth in her palm, Xie Yu's heart stirs and he lets out a long sigh. When a diviner from the Bureau of Astronomy and Astrology says that he and Magistrate Su are "made for each other," he can hardly contain his joy.

Later on...

The Grand Tutor Xie, who once swore he would never marry, is getting married!

The news stuns the capital, and everyone speculates about which extraordinary woman has won the heart of this unattainable man.

Is it the mysterious woman he met secretly in a carriage, the elusive writer Lantai Ke, or Magistrate Su, his sworn enemy at the Hanlin Academy? But how can an enemy become a wife?

Xie Yu rubs the soft, warm hand in his, sneering with disdain.

His Xiaoyu is so wonderful that only a fool would let her go.

Theme: Strive onward and never give up.