The Right Way to Turn an Explicit Story Into a Pure Romance

A new story is in the works: [Taming the Mad Dog Tyrant] [A Torturous Romance, but the Male Lead Is the One Who Suffers]. Please add it to your collections!

Revising in progress, and the story is nearly complete.

Zhu Qiu wakes up in the body of a female cultivator from the Hehuan Sect, infamous throughout the entire cultivation world.

Unfortunately, she is an utterly ordinary good-for-nothing who likes to lie flat, with neither great cultivation nor powerful connections.

Luckily, her adoptive master dotes on her and gives her a top-tier cultivation furnace as a husband from the start.

His name is Lou Weixue. Dressed in white as bright as snow, he is peerlessly handsome, broad-shouldered, narrow-waisted, and long-legged. His black hair is tipped with white, like a drift of snow atop dark wood. This cultivation furnace is the very picture of domestic virtue: he handles all the housework by day and diligently serves as her cultivation furnace at night. Apart from his sharp tongue, he is practically perfect.

Zhu Qiu is very pleased: He can do the housework and help me cultivate at night. I could lie flat and enjoy this heavenly life forever!

Until one day, she goes down the mountain and sees a wanted portrait put up by the Xuanyue Palace.

That Sword Master, with the moon hanging high above him and the elegance of an orchid and jade tree, looks exactly like her devoted househusband?!

Only later does she discover that this world is the setting of an erotic novel.

Lou Weixue is the male lead, while she is merely a minor character in the background. Not only has she treated the male lead as a cultivation furnace, she has also worked him like a pack animal, committing every kind of mistake, both forgivable and unforgivable.

Zhu Qiu: "...Oh no, this is coming for me. Best to run first."

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Sword Master Lou Weixue is profoundly powerful, proud, and haughty. He is the greatest expert of his age, the only one capable of ascending to immortality. He has always believed in the Heartless Dao, convinced that love would only slow down his sword.

Until he is ambushed and gravely wounded, ending up at the Hehuan Sect as the little demoness's "cultivation furnace."

He thinks he is about to lose his chastity and suffer a lifetime of humiliation. But just as his clothes are halfway off, Zhu Qiu reaches out and pulls them back up, even straightening his collar.

Lou Weixue: ?

Zhu Qiu: "What a figure... No, get dressed. Who'll cook for me if you catch a chill?"

At first, he thinks it is only a temporary arrangement. But gradually, he begins to feel that...

Though she is lazy and caustic, and orders people around without the slightest courtesy, she... treats him rather well.

Perhaps becoming her true husband would not be so bad after all.

But when he regains his cultivation, prepares betrothal gifts despite everyone's objections, and rushes back to the Hehuan Sect, she has already vanished without a trace.

When he finally finds her, she is busy laughing and joking with a male courtesan from a musical house.

Burning with jealousy, the Sword Master smashes the door with a single slash, sweeps in wearing a bright red wedding robe, and sends the courtesan flying with a wave of his sleeve.

Lou Weixue advances step by dangerous step, possessive and obsessive, trapping her in his arms. He lowers his head into the crook of her neck, his lips brushing against her with longing. "My lady, you were so hard to find. I've come to claim my place, unless you mean to abandon your husband?"

Zhu Qiu: "Didn't you say love would slow down your sword?"

"It would. That's why I have to marry you first. My sword is faster than ever now."

Zhu Qiu: What on earth is wrong with the male lead?!

A lazy female cultivator who is always ready to lie flat x a Sword Master who is sharper-tongued than his sword and wins himself over

Reader's Guide:

1. One-on-one romance, both leads have only ever been with each other, happy ending.

2. A sweet little romance. The male lead is the strongest fighter around and listens to his wife.

Blurb for the upcoming story [Taming the Mad Dog Tyrant]

Tan Fuzhen dies in a fire that consumes the imperial harem.

In her previous life, she was married into the palace in someone else's place. She met the emperor just once before a palace coup broke out. Imprisoned in the harem, she wasted away for years and never left that man-eating palace alive.

When she opens her eyes again, she is back in a poor thatched hut with a leaky roof, before any of it has happened.

Tan Fuzhen does not want to die. She does not want to be a helpless fish at others' mercy ever again. This time, she will carve out a way to survive for herself and take revenge on every person who used and betrayed her in her previous life.

She remembers the new emperor who led an army to kill the sovereign, arriving through a river of blood. Yin Yan, the tyrant of the future, stood beside the legitimate daughter of the prime minister, adorned in a phoenix crown on the day of the coup. How glorious they had looked.

But that mighty new emperor is now only a dying slave kept in a cage in the marketplace.

This time, she buys him first and brings him home.

She teaches him to read and instructs him in etiquette and strategy, hiding calculation behind gentle words.

"Remember, I saved you, so I am your master. You must be a loyal dog and tear into every enemy I have."

Three years later, a grand procession of carriages stretches for miles and causes a stir throughout the city. It has come all the way from the capital to bring home the young nobleman who has been living among commoners.

Tan Fuzhen watches him leave, then follows the memories of her previous life to rescue the Dowager Lady of the Prime Minister's household from danger. With a change of fortune, she becomes the adopted daughter of the prime minister.

To climb higher, she accepts a marriage proposal. On her wedding day, she waits with a smile for her husband to come fetch her. But halfway along the road, the bridal sedan is suddenly stopped by mounted soldiers.

The now powerful and battle-hardened Prince of Wujing rides in and abducts the bride in full view of everyone.

Tan Fuzhen lifts the curtain of the sedan and meets his deep, dark eyes, as unfathomable as the sea. The frail slave boy who once fought wild dogs for scraps has grown into the tall and imposing Prince of Wujing, and his heart and eyes are filled with her alone.

The proud young man softens his voice before her, showing his canine teeth as he breaks into a radiant smile. But the words he speaks are enough to make one's blood run cold:

"I've come to marry you."

"Don't worry. Anyone who stands in my way will meet a gruesome end. I won't give you to anyone."

"Whatever you want, I'll give it to you. I can be your blade or your dog. I only want to devote myself to you."

"Don't leave me, Master."

Later, he fights on the battlefield for Tan Fuzhen, willingly bearing infamy and staining his hands with blood, no matter the cost.

As the fire turns the imperial palace crimson, Yin Yan cuts off the emperor's head and kneels on one knee, offering up the imperial jade seal and the military tallies with both hands. His eyes brim with adoration and love.

"I offer you the empire as my betrothal gift, and you alone, my sovereign."

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Only after Tan Fuzhen takes the seat of power does she understand: she has raised a mad dog who does not care if he lives or dies.

1. A scheming female lead who seems sweet but is ruthless underneath x an obsessive, loyal dog of a male lead. In both lifetimes, he loves only her.

2. The male lead is a true mad dog who only wags his tail for the female lead.

3. This story has a happy ending.

Theme: Overcome difficulties and live life with optimism