Chapter 1

Chapter 1

The night was deep, but within the Chongyao Sect, it was brightly lit. Several flying swords tore through the night, suddenly plunging into the thick forest, and the whole mountain was in uproar.

With the sound of water trickling, a slender figure slowly walked into the lake. Moonlight softly landed on her pale cheeks. Sensing the auras that had slipped into the forest, Lu Yuanyin slightly raised her head. The blinding sword light left bright specks in her eyes.

She frowned slightly and unconsciously looked down at the lake under her feet. Water flowed gently. She crouched and carefully washed the lingering traces from her fingers.

After a moment, she bent down to pick up the longsword by the shore, intending to leave, but felt a soreness in her waist, as if every bone and muscle in her body were being crushed. She couldn't help but gasp, a glistening layer of watery light swimming in her beautiful eyes.

A cool night breeze ruffled her messy robe. Lu Yuanyin gazed at her reflection and instinctively pulled her collar together to cover the tangled, ambiguous marks on her neck and chest.

Her skin was fair, so marks were easy to leave. Even though his spiritual power was sealed, that man still had immense brute strength. Every time his fingertips touched, they left a purple bruise. After a night of indulgence, the sight was truly miserable.

As she moved, the sensations she had tried to forget surged back. Lu Yuanyin pressed her red lips together and tried her best to ignore the strange feeling below, walking up the mountain awkwardly.

This was her first time engaging in dual cultivation—absorbing a man's essence.

It wasn't the wonderful pleasure others had described.

Thinking of that seemingly endless, frightening, almost overwhelming sensation, Lu Yuanyin tightened her grip on the sword. She almost thought she'd die under that man's hands.

Those liars …

Dazed, she looked at the forest shrouded in mist around her. The darkness around her grew thicker. A cool night breeze swept through the valley, making tree shadows dance. Twisting branches swayed in the wind, like clawed monsters in the pitch-black night.

She could still hear his controlled, suppressed gasps, accompanied by scorching heat that brushed against her ears, burning her so that she couldn't help but tremble.

Her long lashes fluttered. Lu Yuanyin shook her head, trying to dispel that strange feeling.

Walking absentmindedly up the mountain, she heard a familiar, excited exclamation from a young girl in the distance. Frowning, she saw several white-robed disciples sitting on the ground, watching with envy as a girl wobbled on a flying sword in the air. Someone couldn't help exclaiming, "Junior sister is still so impressive! She learned sword flight so quickly!"

"Sword flight is nothing. Come on, this is our junior sister!"

"Speaking of which, I haven't seen that trash in days. Has she gone to pester Master again? I've never seen a female cultivator so shameless! I think she'd just strip Master's clothes off! Truly a product of that kind of place..."

As the person spoke, the disciples let out disdainful snickers, full of contempt and mockery.

Hearing this, Lu Yuanyin paused. Through the gaps in the leaves, she saw the undisguised, intense malice on the disciples' faces.

She had forgotten it was the Chongyao Sect's annual Stargazing Banquet. All sect disciples would return to the mountain. Naturally, Lu Sisi and the others, who'd been traveling outside, also hurried back when they got the news.

Gripping her sword, Lu Yuanyin was about to turn away when she saw a petite figure leap off the flying sword, landing lightly on a branch, the silver bells in her hair jingling.

The young girl pouted and cast a reproachful glance at the young man, "Don't talk about A Yin like that! She'd be sad if she heard!"

Hearing Lu Sisi's words, the leading young man said helplessly, "She's so thick-skinned, what would she feel?"

"You're too kind. That's why that trash dares to treat you like that. If I were you, I'd teach her a lesson!"

Lu Sisi snorted lightly and reversed her sword, "A Yin just hasn't been taught properly. Her parents died young, and she grew up in that kind of place. She doesn't know right from wrong…"

The girl's tone was concerned, her expression innocent, her words full of tolerance and protection for her cousin. But as she spoke, the disgust on the disciples' faces grew deeper.

Lu Yuanyin felt a chill run down her spine.

To her, Lu Sisi was practically a nightmare.

Even now, she still couldn't believe she was just a stepping stone in Lu Sisi's magnificent life.

She was just a cannon fodder female supporting character in a morally twisted smut novel, *The Overbearing Demon Lord's Deep Affection: Don't Escape, My Little Fiery Wife*. A vicious, beautiful vase meant to highlight how pure, cute, naive, and sweet the heroine was!

She was the greedy and ruthless childhood friend and fiancée of the overbearing Demon Lord Gu Lingqiu, the greedy and vicious little disciple of the aloof master, Immortal Lord Changye, the junior sister in the sect who turned completely dark out of jealousy toward the heroine—causing trouble everywhere, being pretentious, and utterly useless except for her face.

And the heroine was her cousin, Lu Sisi of the Chongyao Sect.

Lu Yuanyin felt she was treated somewhat unjustly.

Ever since she met Lu Sisi, bad luck had followed her like a shadow. Even drinking cold water made her choke. Walking on the road, she'd get accidentally injured by sparring sword cultivators and end up wrapped like a mummy for half a month.

She had done her best to avoid it.

In that cliché novel, as the heroine, Lu Sisi had countless admirers. Almost every male creature fell head over heels for her.

She was forced to navigate among various male supporting characters, going through all kinds of intense, forced love and dramatic love-hate entanglements, creating chaos for everyone, especially Lu Yuanyin, her vicious female counterpart.

Lu Yuanyin felt like crying.

She and Lu Sisi were cousins. The first time she met Lu Sisi, she was implicated—Lu Sisi's enemies massacred the entire Lu family, leaving her an orphan.

She wandered for a long time before an old woman at Hehuan Sect took her in.

But a few years later, she met Lu Sisi again. The spirit beasts Lu Sisi provoked trampled Hehuan Sect flat. The old woman vanished, and hundreds of her sect mates died under the beasts' claws. She lost her home again.

Just when she thought things couldn't get worse, she was picked up—badly injured—by Lu Sisi and brought to Chongyao Sect, becoming a disciple of Immortal Lord Changye. And so began her short, miserable life.

The people around her died one by one because of Lu Sisi. Lu Sisi would only cower in someone's arms crying, her innocent face showing fear and helplessness. But the next time, she'd still be reckless and cause trouble everywhere!

Of course, Lu Sisi had protectors, so she was safe, but those around her suffered—especially Lu Yuanyin. She was implicated to the point of having her meridians shattered and her cultivation level dropped.

Even so, if Lu Yuanyin showed the slightest dissatisfaction with Lu Sisi, those around her would accuse her of being vicious and mean—ungrateful to her savior!

No matter where she went, she faced inexplicable, overwhelming malice and abuse.

Over time, her psyche twisted completely. She openly targeted Lu Sisi, but Lu Sisi's admirers always slapped her down.

Drowned in bitterness, she abandoned her down-and-out fiancé for power, trying to climb into her master's bed using her beauty and old connections. Little did she know that poor young man would become the future, noble Demon Lord.

As she kept courting death, her childhood friend gave up on her completely, her master cast her aside like trash, and her fellow disciples hated her to the bone.

In the end, she died by her own schemes, pierced by thousands of swords, dead instantly.

Lu Sisi stood mournfully before her corpse, took a lifetime's worth of spiritual pills and spirit stones from her storage pouch, and said she wouldn't forgive her for her malice.

But for the sake of their sisterhood, she was willing to let bygones be bygones and be good sisters in the next life.

Then, right beside her corpse, she and that bastard man performed a forced love scene.

Thinking of all those precious pills and treasures falling into the hands of that bitch and the other bastards, Lu Yuanyin nearly rose from the dead in anger!

Everyone celebrated her death, cursing that she had it coming. Only the old woman, who'd been missing for a long time, suddenly appeared to avenge her. But she was no match for the male supporting characters and died with her at the foot of Chongyao Mountain.

After her death, with no more obstacles from her, Lu Sisi and Gu Lingqiu went through all kinds of cliché plots, finally confirming their feelings for each other and starting a shamelessly happy sex life.

As those corny, melodramatic plotlines flooded into her sea of consciousness like a tide, Lu Yuanyin looked at Lu Sisi and the others sitting cross-legged on the ground, feeling an inexplicable sense of absurdity.

And at the very end of that story, she learned that the beginning of all this tragedy was a scheme personally set up by Immortal Lord Changye—a plot to rebuild Lu Sisi's spiritual roots.

Lu Sisi’s current talent was built on the blood and bones of her whole family.

The person Lu Yuanyin trusted the most was the very culprit who had brought her to this state.

Her parents were once the most celebrated alchemy masters of their generation. When her mother was pregnant, she was ambushed and suffered severe damage to her vitality, resulting in Lu Yuanyin being born extremely weak with shattered spiritual roots.

For her sake, her parents devoted themselves to alchemy, spending years in painstaking research, and finally refined a spiritual pill that could reconstruct spiritual roots.

But it was that very spiritual pill that led to the massacre of the entire Lu family and many disciples of the Hehuan Sect at the hands of Immortal Lord Changye.

Lu Yuanyin no longer knew what to say or what to do.

Within the Chongyao Sect, Immortal Lord Changye was the only one who never spoke harshly to her. He taught her spells, celebrated her birthday, gifted her a sword, and searched the whole universe for a cauldron to give her.

Until last month, Immortal Lord Changye was still the person she cherished most. She was grateful for his guidance and companionship.

But she never imagined that her fall to this state was entirely his doing.

The fiancé she had trusted and depended on with her whole heart turned a blind eye to her, coldly watching her be killed by others.

She inherited her parents’ talent in alchemy, and most of the sect’s disciples consumed spiritual pills she had refined. She felt she had never wronged anyone, yet they treated her with coldness and harsh words, eventually joining forces to slay her beneath Chongyao Mountain, and personally killed her grandmother.

Lu Yuanyin tightened her grip on the longsword in her hand, her heart a tumult of emotions. She remembered all this because she was ambushed by sect members and accidentally ingested Thousand Night Powder.

When the Thousand Night Powder drove her to the breaking point and her meridians reversed, she remembered everything from the book and desperately fled Chongyao Mountain.

At that time, her hatred was overwhelming. Recalling the plot from the book, she resolutely headed to the nearby Bozhou Mountain.

The first male cultivator Lu Yuanyin drained energy from was Lu Sisi’s

longtime white moonlight, Huan Chen.

She learned from the book that Huan Chen would be severely injured during his tribulation and was hiding in Bozhou Mountain to heal. Lu Yuanyin found him first and, while he was vulnerable and defenseless, sealed his meridians and spiritual power, locked him in a cave beneath Chongyao Mountain, and humiliated him repeatedly.

Lu Yuanyin deliberately ignored those chaotic memories. She took a deep breath, intending to leave the place first, when she heard one of the female cultivators quietly ask, "Si Si, how is Senior Huan Chen’s injury?"

Lu Yuanyin’s footsteps halted. She raised her head sharply and heard Lu Sisi whisper, "A bit better. Master said luckily we treated him in time, otherwise his foundation would have been destroyed. But he still needs a good period of rest."

Lu Yuanyin’s eyes narrowed. She stared at them in disbelief.

For a moment, silence filled her ears.

She watched Lu Sisi and the others discussing Huan Chen’s condition with concern, her expression growing increasingly bewildered. Since Huan Chen had already been rescued by Lu Sisi and the others, who exactly was the person she had locked in the cave…

As if sensing her presence, Lu Sisi among the group looked up with some confusion. Lu Yuanyin quickly hid behind a tree, avoiding her eyes. She stared blankly at the longsword in her hand, her thoughts a mess, her head throbbing.

In that book, Huan Chen was barely described. Lu Yuanyin had never seen his appearance either. She only knew he had some dragon blood, impressive cultivation, and would later become one of the female lead’s strong supporters. He had once suffered a severe injury that turned his hair white overnight.

Thus, when she saw the white-haired man in the mountain, she had no doubt and immediately took him away from Bozhou Mountain…

Lu Yuanyin carefully recalled the events of the past few days. The male cultivator she had repeatedly drained energy from had a cold, handsome face. His features were sharper than most, with white hair, red eyes, two horns growing from his forehead, and a small red demonic mark beneath his eye.

And during her draining, she had seen that he possessed two terrifyingly large phalluses…

At the time, she thought Huan Chen just had some dragon blood, so he might look different, so she didn't suspect a thing and even cursed him for it.

Lu Yuanyin’s heart leaped. She mentally compared his traits with the characters from the book. Then she couldn't help but twitch her brow again.

In that smutty novel, the only character with so many matching features was the mad tyrant who ruled the spirit beast clan…

Huo Wuyan.

A madman known for his ruthless and volatile nature, who single-handedly massacred countless cultivators, and nearly destroying the thousand-year foundation of the cultivation world.

Thinking about what had happened these past days, Lu Yuanyin fell silent for a moment.

She hated Lu Sisi, and by association, she also hated her white moonlight.

Lu Yuanyin usually devoted herself to alchemy. She rarely interacted with others and seldom lost her temper. But after hiding Huo Wuyan away, she vented almost all her malice onto him, including mockery and insults.

Even before she came back, she had grabbed his arm and said maliciously, "Your technique is terrible."

"Now you’re like a beast in heat… It’s disgusting."

"…"

Lu Yuanyin felt darkness closing in on her vision again and again.

Author’s note:

Starting a new story~

All readers who leave comments on the first three chapters will receive a little red envelope. Mwah~