After My Obsessive Furnace Partner Started Showering Me with Gifts

The story is 4/5 complete, and I'm wrapping up the blurb~ After it's finished, I'll start a second novel in November, “Taking My Disobedient Shadow Guard by Force.” Please show it some love and add it to your favorites!

[Sunny, impulsive heroine who charges ahead with her eyes shut x dark, twisted, smoldering hero who still knows how to treat a woman]

[A growing moonlight heroine x anyone who gets in the way of the moon being high in the sky gets carried off] SCHE

[Training that scoundrel: gloomy and deranged to the world, but a scheming black lotus who competes for the heroine's affection]

[The male lead's consciousness is the heroine's cultivation vessel, and he spends every day teasing her and begging her to drain him for nourishment.]

[Romance]

In Baiyujing, having no spiritual meridians is an ill omen.

Bai Luoyan, that useless good-for-nothing, had been hiding for years, but she'd finally been arrested.

Bai Luoyan refused to accept it. Why should she be forbidden to live just because she had no spiritual meridians?

Yet, on the brink of death, the broken kitchen knife she'd picked up at random suddenly appeared, shattering a sword cultivator's astonishing sword aura with a single slash!

Through the haze, someone said, “You were a divine sword descended to the mortal realm, and my Dao companion in a past life. That kitchen knife is one of your fragments, capable of driving back ten thousand demons.”

Bai Luoyan: “What nonsense. Then I'll say you owe me three million taels of gold from a past life.”

When she woke, golden light filled the room and nearly blinded her.

Yu Anhuai, the supreme God King of Baiyujing and Grand Diviner whose fate was illuminated by karmic flames, stood before her arrogantly. His looks made even the finest jewels seem dull.

“Three million taels of gold as your betrothal gift. You're my fiancée now.”

Bai Luoyan: ?

Yu Anhuai was a sinister, brutal man who held power over everything. Marrying him would be a death wish.

But he threatened her entire clan, insisting on taking her as his wife.

She seized his throat while he slept, but he didn't even struggle.

“If you hate me so much, why not crush it?” His smiling eyes held a mad, utterly untimely delight and anticipation.

“Then we could be together forever.”

Bai Luoyan fled in despair. It was over: she'd gotten herself involved with a genuine lunatic.

Who could have guessed that after they married, the terrifying man would show a completely different side?

Yu Anhuai was every inch the dignified spouse, yet had the manners of a brothel patron, eagerly offering himself as her cultivation vessel.

Bai Luoyan was busy getting stronger: “You disturb my Dao heart. This man must not be allowed to live!”

Yu Anhuai proudly showed off the marks she'd left on him.

Bai Luoyan was busy exterminating demons: “You frame me as a calamity who brings ruin to men. This man must not be allowed to live!”

He brought down the powerful clans that had harmed her like a mountain collapsing, sparing none who had used her lack of spiritual meridians to threaten her. Yu Anhuai helped her step into the sunlight and become the savior everyone believed in.

Bai Luoyan was busy seizing territory: “You're using me. This man must not be allowed to live!”

Everyone in the world said Yu Anhuai was a demon, but since nobody could beat him, they wanted her to rid them of him.

Bai Luoyan stood in front of Yu Anhuai with her blade raised, then grabbed him by the throat from behind.

Everyone thought she was about to die.

Who could have imagined that the terrifying man would lower his hand and let her do as she pleased?

Bai Luoyan: “Look how well he listens to me. What harm could he possibly do?”

Everyone: ???

Bai Luoyan: All beings are equal. I'll beat up anyone I can't stand.

Yu Anhuai: “What have you done to my poor, helpless, delicate wife? You're asking for death!”

Bai Luoyan: “...”

[Bonus Scene]

Bai Luoyan was teaching cultivators to practice swordsmanship. She patted one young man after another and said approvingly, “You're all doing great!”

The young men trembled, none of them daring to look her in the eye.

She turned around. Yu Anhuai was standing behind her.

His expression was dark and vicious, as if he meant to tear someone limb from limb.

“Don't.” Bai Luoyan slapped him, and he went right back to looking innocent.

That night, he stubbornly held her hand and carefully examined every inch of her skin, cool as frost and snow.

A dim fire smoldered in his eyes, with a hint of grievance and ingratiation.

“Mine are nice too. Please, darling, take pity on me... Take your time and have a good look...”

[Plot Blurb]

Bai Luoyan had no spiritual meridians from birth, a crime punishable by death.

She had to hide and keep out of sight, but she couldn't stand to see other people suffer. She dared to beat up bullies and could rescue a close friend who'd been forcibly taken.

But she always hurt herself ten times more than she hurt her enemies, and often ended up battered and bruised.

People laughed at her. “You're a little girl. Aren't you embarrassed to look like that?”

Bai Luoyan didn't care. “Looking good doesn't matter. Staying alive does.”

Later, she was expelled from the academy and sent home. She often sat outside a bun shop and watched.

The owner praised her. “So virtuous! You'll be a wonderful cook when you grow up. Everyone will praise your skills.”

Bai Luoyan paid no attention. Her eyes were fixed on the minced meat, flecks of which were flying everywhere. “Whether they praise me doesn't matter. Staying alive does.”

The Seven Luminaries clans committed every kind of evil and revered spiritual meridians above all else. But no matter how powerful their meridians were, weren't they just another piece of meat?

If only that knife could be in her hands...

As luck would have it, she really did find a broken kitchen knife later on.

The Grand Diviner said it was a fragment of the Goddess's demon-slaying blade, before which all evil must retreat.

In an instant, she went from an overlooked nobody to a celebrated hero.

She carried out justice on heaven's behalf with no rules and no concern for propriety, and her victories weren't pretty.

But strangely enough, she was always the one who survived to the end.

The cultivators were grateful, though they still muttered: This “divine sword” had no flashy moves at all. She just carried around a broken kitchen knife... Wasn't that a little too ordinary?

Bai Luoyan carried on as she pleased, using one slash after another to set the broken world right. “Who needs flashy moves? Staying alive is what matters.”

Only when she survived would the evil spirits and wicked sects understand what it meant to avoid wrongdoing.

And if anyone couldn't understand that... well, she knew a thing or two about using a knife!

[Map One] Incense Burner of the Fire Suanni & Ancient Divine Temple: Ascend the Altar

[Map Two] The Bai Clan of a Thousand Years: Break the Karmic Barrier

[Map Three] Xuansu Valley of a Hundred Medicines: Slay the Immortal

[Map Four] Cave Heaven of Xiyi: Subdue the Goddess (in progress)

[Reading Guide / Content Warnings]

① BG, both leads' first relationship, happy ending. The romance becomes more prominent after 100,000+ words.

My own take on fantasy, low magic, with gods in the world. Might makes right.

② The story stays in the heroine's point of view. No male lead POV and no switching to a group POV.

③ The heroine is emotionally thick-skinned but has the upper hand in the relationship. She's a little ball of sunshine, but she's not well-read or gentle, and she has a bad temper. She really will slap the male lead!

A lot of emotional angst for the male lead! He's in the weaker position emotionally, very possessive and deeply self-sacrificing, and constantly looking for ways to get the heroine to come around. He loves her from beginning to end and supports her all the way. When things go wrong, he only blames himself for not being good enough. He will never betray or hurt her. The male lead isn't a fast-food chain... He'd definitely prefer cuddles to slaps, but the heroine won't let him cuddle her at first... so a slap can count as a kind of cuddle, I guess...

So pay attention! This story caters to a niche set of tastes! The male lead does not have a one-sided love for the heroine who treats him like wallpaper! It's not a body-double story! It's not a story about the heroine being a homewrecker!

④ They are each other's first love. (The fiancé is a puppet, and the fiancée's engagement is fake too.)

⑤ The heroine only suffers through the struggle to get stronger, not because of the male lead. There's just a little misunderstanding at the start, so don't worry: the male lead behaves himself afterward! (You can tell from the chapter summaries.)

⑥ The male lead is crazy, but not a domineering CEO. He's sly and ingratiating toward the heroine, but with everyone else he either shifts the blame or has them carried off. His personality is awful and mercurial. Only the heroine brings out his human side.

⑦ The heroine's comeback doesn't mean she becomes invincible from the start. She's weak at first and needs the male lead to rescue her.

⑧ The heroine is straightforward, a cheerful and funny ray of sunshine, and becomes a powerhouse in the middle to later part of the story. The fights aren't pretty, and there are scenes of her “ripping out monsters' hearts and guts.”

⑨ There are many minor villains, including evil humans and nonhumans of every age and gender.

Theme: Anyone who follows the justice of the world with their heart as their sword can walk the same path!