Author's Note

Hello everyone! 👋

Welcome to Beneath a Borrowed Moon.

This is actually my first original work, so I'm both excited and terrified to be posting it. Most of the stories I've written before were fanfictions, but this time I wanted to challenge myself and create my own world, my own characters, my own cultivation system, and my own chaos.

To be completely honest, this story started as one idea and then slowly became ten different ideas stitched together.

I love cultivation novels. I love transmigration stories. I love Omegaverse. I love face-slapping. I love mecha. I love magical beasts. I love horror. I love political drama. I love ridiculous misunderstandings that somehow spiral into disasters. And I especially love reading long Chinese web novels on Novel Updates and other translated sites.

At some point my brain looked at all those things and said:

"What if we put ALL OF THEM in the same story?"

And that is how this book was born.

This world is beautiful on the surface, but underneath it is cruel, dangerous, and sometimes genuinely horrifying. There will be comedy, romance, cultivation, mecha battles, magical beasts, political scheming, found family, and probably far too many people making terrible decisions.

There will also be cooking.

A lot of cooking.

Our protagonist may be dealing with ancient gods, dragons, cultivation politics, and the possible end of the world, but that does not mean he is going to stop thinking about food.

I should probably also mention that I'm not an expert on cultivation, cooking, politics, babies, noble society, or mecha engineering. Most of what I know comes from reading, research, documentaries, random internet rabbit holes, and years of consuming way too many novels.

So if I occasionally make mistakes, please be patient with me. I'm learning as I go.

Most importantly, I hope you enjoy the journey.

Thank you for giving my first original story a chance. Every read, vote, comment, and bit of support means more than you know.

I hope you'll stay with Yuebai as he stumbles through cultivation, noble politics, terrifying secrets, suspiciously attractive men, and a world that keeps getting stranger the longer he survives in it.

See you in Chapter One.

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