? Author Post: Why I Rewrote The Pervert’s Ascension

[MidnightCultivator]

Hello readers — both old and new!


I wanted to take a moment to formally explain why The Pervert’s Ascension has been rewritten from the ground up, and why you’ll notice major structural changes to earlier chapters and worldbuilding going forward.

So… Why the Rewrite?​

The original version, while packed with the same erotic tension and cultivation strategy many of you enjoyed, unintentionally followed the tone and structure of a sect-based story, despite naming the core power structure as a clan.


In traditional cultivation lore, clans and sects operate very differently:

• A clan is based on bloodlines, family ties, marriages, and internal politics.
• A sect functions like a school — with disciples, outer/inner courts, and merit-based rise.

But my original narrative (particularly from Chapters 1–20) blurred those lines. Despite naming the Azure Dragon Clan as a clan, the internal structure behaved more like a sect — with "inner courts," "disciples," and detached elders. That mistake undermined the emotional and political impact I wanted to build through family-based power dynamics, legacy, and betrayal.

? What’s Different in the Rewrite?​

• Accurate Clan Dynamics: All major characters are now related through blood or marriage. Hierarchies reflect real-world family structures in cultivation fiction.
• Location & Lifestyle Corrections: Characters now live in family courtyards, not sect-style dormitories or pavilions.
• Emotional Leverage: Family guilt, maternal obligation, inheritance pressure, and marriage status now play huge roles in how power and seduction are negotiated.
• Plot Anchoring: Ling Tian’s schemes now feel more grounded in personal betrayal, inheritance tension, and calculated familial manipulation — not just random sexual conquest.

? But the Essence Remains...​

Ling Tian is still cunning, lewd, and endlessly ambitious.
The seduction, manipulation, and ruthless games of power remain the spine of this story — they’re just now happening in a more believable, culturally-consistent setting.

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Thank you to everyone who supported the original version. I hope this rewrite offers stronger immersion, smarter worldbuilding, and even more satisfying erotic tension.


If you’re returning to the story, I recommend starting from Chapter 1 — you’ll immediately notice the improvements in tone, pacing, and logic.


Feel free to ask questions or leave feedback. I’m always listening.


— Midnight Cultivator

 

[blackcrowcrowd]

Hello readers — both old and new!

What if I'm neither

 

[MidnightCultivator]

What if I'm neither

Hello neither too

 

[Rookieqw]

Not a reader, but thank you for your efforts. You are awesome.

 

[MidnightCultivator]

Not a reader, but thank you for your efforts. You are awesome.

Thank you, you are always welcomed to try it. My story is not just focus on the cultivation but also on the deep nighttime scenes which I keep on seeing in anime, manga, novel like night comes and then there is morning. I was frustrated that no one wrote what happens during the night that is why I took the pen to write myself. So if you are into erotic type then you may like it once there enough chapters. I see that you are quite an old member of this site so wanted to know can I upload a really detailed step by step normal sexual scene chapter?

 

[blackcrowcrowd]

Hmm... Tell us what's unique about your story (other than night scenes) and I might become one of your readers.

 

[Rookieqw]

I see that you are quite an old member of this site so wanted to know can I upload a really detailed step by step normal sexual scene chapter?

Can't help you here. Sexual content is not my forte.

 

[MidnightCultivator]

Can't help you here. Sexual content is not my forte.

sure, no problem.

Hmm... Tell us what's unique about your story (other than night scenes) and I might become one of your readers.

Mysterious eyes and black blood maybe, mc rely on actual planning, deception, and negotiation to move forward at least in first arc. Will give him golden fingers only for survival not for female conquest, it is purely on his plans, manipulations etc.
Or you could try the Immersive Audio overview of the novel chapter on YouTube if you have time. It is like someone else reads the novel lines and then do deep discussions for you. I liked it but since it is of my novel so I can't really say if it is good or not for readers. So, if anyone has time do try the audio overview of chapters on YouTube and give your feedback. I have posted the links:

 

[Dec]

Why does this read like GPT slop. Even typical emotes and bolded-up random bits are here.
This makes me want to avoid the story.

 

[Assurbanipal_II]

Why does this read like GPT slop. Even typical emotes and bolded-up random bits are here.
This makes me want to avoid the story.

There are many posters like this here~. It is curious~.

 

[Dec]

There are many posters like this here~. It is curious~.

I'd say it's more sad than anything. Basic skills are being replaced by machines

 

[Assurbanipal_II]

I'd say it's more sad than anything. Basic skills are being replaced by machines

Maybe they are trying to bot story publishing to generate income~.

 

[Tempokai]

This is what "bad faith" of the Sartre looks like in writing. This user needs to perform his "authorness", but he doesn't know how real authors sound. Because of the tips/norms/LLM suggestions saying that the politeness and being absolute snob is the default of the "authorness" in the eyes of percieved society. Only way he can perform that authorness is through those norms, completely disregarding the reality, where the authenticity is first, not "authorness" of the individual.

Humans have a sixth sense for checking authenticity. Even if the receiving end was some idiot with the dyslexia who doesn't know about LLMs read it, he would read that and be suspicious of that user. That boils down to two problems: misplaced audience and misplaced tone.

Audience of this forum does not care about you. Cold advertising does not work in this place, full of authors and veteran readers who walked Webnovel Realm around three times. They know when the story is good and is not, and when it's interesting enough to check it out. What you brought here is nothing but inauthentic experience through tone.

Everyone with more than two braincells can see the ButlerGPT. Everyone had interacted with it, and everyone at least tried to make a blurb with it. When some no name comes out and copy and pastes their justification of why they're rewriting a story, they don't see you, the writer, but the other, The Butler.

And so, every misplaced point coagulates into CRINGE. A story no one knows in this forum + inauthentic writing + failed attempt at advertising becomes pure, unadulterated cringe. It's the cringe that can be roasted with Sartre, for fuck sake.

If you want to advertise your story, don't be a Butler. Be yourself, even if you don't know grammar, rhetoric, logic, and so on. Readers don't want to see "bad faith" author, they want authentic author who is in other side of the page, making the page after page for their enjoyment, not a mechanical factory where there's Butler doing everything, while author in Administrative Sector writing prompts, forgetting that storytelling is all about connection, not money or YT advertising.

Do better.

 

[Dec]

Looked at the story out of curiosity. It reeks of The Butler.
Also this;

Yeah. Not touching it, even with a 10-foot pole.

 

[Assurbanipal_II]

This is what "bad faith" of the Sartre looks like in writing. This user needs to perform his "authorness", but he doesn't know how real authors sound. Because of the tips/norms/LLM suggestions saying that the politeness and being absolute snob is the default of the "authorness" in the eyes of percieved society. Only way he can perform that authorness is through those norms, completely disregarding the reality, where the authenticity is first, not "authorness" of the individual.

Humans have a sixth sense for checking authenticity. Even if the receiving end was some idiot with the dyslexia who doesn't know about LLMs read it, he would read that and be suspicious of that user. That boils down to two problems: misplaced audience and misplaced tone.

Audience of this forum does not care about you. Cold advertising does not work in this place, full of authors and veteran readers who walked Webnovel Realm around three times. They know when the story is good and is not, and when it's interesting enough to check it out. What you brought here is nothing but inauthentic experience through tone.

Everyone with more than two braincells can see the ButlerGPT. Everyone had interacted with it, and everyone at least tried to make a blurb with it. When some no name comes out and copy and pastes their justification of why they're rewriting a story, they don't see you, the writer, but the other, The Butler.

And so, every misplaced point coagulates into CRINGE. A story no one knows in this forum + inauthentic writing + failed attempt at advertising becomes pure, unadulterated cringe. It's the cringe that can be roasted with Sartre, for fuck sake.

If you want to advertise your story, don't be a Butler. Be yourself, even if you don't know grammar, rhetoric, logic, and so on. Readers don't want to see "bad faith" author, they want authentic author who is in other side of the page, making the page after page for their enjoyment, not a mechanical factory where there's Butler doing everything, while author in Administrative Sector writing prompts, forgetting that storytelling is all about connection, not money or YT advertising.

Do better.

The hero of our times~.

 

[MidnightCultivator]

MidnightCultivator (The Author. Yes, with a Butler.)
? Response to “The ButlerGPT” accusations and rewrite purpose

Alright, let’s address the jade elephant in the room.

Some of you have raised a valid, if sharp-edged, critique:

> “This sounds like ButlerGPT. Why should we care?”
“It reeks of artificial polish. Where’s the real author?”
“This isn’t authenticity. This is auto-generated cringe.”



Let me speak plainly.

Yes — I do work with AI. I work with a tool. A consistent, repeatable, extremely powerful tool — one that has helped me restructure a first version of the novel with 233-chapter, 500k+ word novel from scratch because I cared more about internal consistency and worldbuilding than riding early hype.

If that makes me the master and ChatGPT the butler, so be it. I’m not offended — in fact, I’ll take it. Because in this household, the butler doesn’t write the novel. I do. He just sharpens the knives. And trust me — they're sharp.


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? Why This Rewrite Was Worth It

The second version of The Pervert’s Ascension had a solid base — readers liked the pacing, the tone, the blend of perversion and strategy.
But the foundation was cracked.

The story claimed to be clan-based, but behaved like a sect drama:

Inner/outer court references

Disciples instead of sons and cousins

Pavilion this, hall that — no real familial structure

Emotional leverage built on hierarchy, not blood


I rewrote it not to chase algorithmic polish — but because I wanted a true, logical cultivation clan. One where:

Every seduction has social cost

Every bloodline name matters

Every inheritance creates tension

And MC’s manipulation isn’t just sexual, it’s dynastic


And yes, I structured it with care.
Yes, I let the “butler” remind me where I was being inconsistent.
Yes, I used formatting rules to stay focused.

Because this time, I didn’t want to write a 500-chapter novel that starts strong and ends like 80% of the cultivation genre: a power trip that forgets its own roots.


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? Me + GPT = Discipline + Feedback

If I’m the master, GPT is my editor-in-residence.
A brainstorming partner that never sleeps.
A mirror that reflects not just my vision, but my blind spots.

I don’t copy-paste garbage and call it literature.
I test, rewrite, revise, and cut.
I guide the story. I live in this world. Every aunt, every herb shelf, every lewd glance — that’s me.

But yes — GPT helped me be more consistent.
Yes — it helped me think like a reader.
Yes — it kept me accountable to a world I claimed to respect.

That’s not “fake.” That’s craft.


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? And What Makes The Pervert’s Ascension Unique?

A clan-based perversion novel where erotic tension matters politically

No “free” dual-cultivation or fanservice — just cold, strategic seduction

A protagonist who climbs not through plot armor or golden fingers, but manipulation, deception, and long-game schemes

Erotic scenes that change power structures, not just stimulate


So yes — it has spice.
But it also has structure.
Thanks to feedback. And yes, thanks to “the Butler.”

—

You want raw? Fine. I’m the author. I have a butler. And together, we’re writing something sharper, sexier.

So instead of shouting at the teapot, read the damn tea leaves.

— MidnightCultivator
Storyteller. Strategist. Not your sect master.


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Fully written by butlerGpt

 

[Tempokai]

This is enough for your story to be delisted from this website, period. And, the content guidelines of this website clearly say that:

There are no edits at all. I don't see any conscious human involvement in this piece of a chapter I just saw, therefore under the guidelines it will be delisted. Thank you for your confirmation, dear Butler.

 

[MidnightCultivator]

This is what "bad faith" of the Sartre looks like in writing. This user needs to perform his "authorness", but he doesn't know how real authors sound. Because of the tips/norms/LLM suggestions saying that the politeness and being absolute snob is the default of the "authorness" in the eyes of percieved society. Only way he can perform that authorness is through those norms, completely disregarding the reality, where the authenticity is first, not "authorness" of the individual.

Humans have a sixth sense for checking authenticity. Even if the receiving end was some idiot with the dyslexia who doesn't know about LLMs read it, he would read that and be suspicious of that user. That boils down to two problems: misplaced audience and misplaced tone.

Audience of this forum does not care about you. Cold advertising does not work in this place, full of authors and veteran readers who walked Webnovel Realm around three times. They know when the story is good and is not, and when it's interesting enough to check it out. What you brought here is nothing but inauthentic experience through tone.

Everyone with more than two braincells can see the ButlerGPT. Everyone had interacted with it, and everyone at least tried to make a blurb with it. When some no name comes out and copy and pastes their justification of why they're rewriting a story, they don't see you, the writer, but the other, The Butler.

And so, every misplaced point coagulates into CRINGE. A story no one knows in this forum + inauthentic writing + failed attempt at advertising becomes pure, unadulterated cringe. It's the cringe that can be roasted with Sartre, for fuck sake.

If you want to advertise your story, don't be a Butler. Be yourself, even if you don't know grammar, rhetoric, logic, and so on. Readers don't want to see "bad faith" author, they want authentic author who is in other side of the page, making the page after page for their enjoyment, not a mechanical factory where there's Butler doing everything, while author in Administrative Sector writing prompts, forgetting that storytelling is all about connection, not money or YT advertising.

Do better.

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This is enough for your story to be delisted from this website, period. And, the content guidelines of this website clearly say that:
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There are no edits at all. I don't see any conscious human involvement in this piece of a chapter I just saw, therefore under the guidelines it will be delisted. Thank you for your confirmation, dear Butler.

I mean why would you write your self when you have ai to write, you provide what you want and it writes it and if you find something that doesn't fits you tell it to edit it. That's how the ai work or do you prefer me to ask the ai to provide plans and i write every thing myself?
Ai don't think themselves they act based on training data they are trained on which basically comes from humans, it's just that they are better at grammar or do you prefer those old days translation which did not make any sense. I still remember how frustrating it was with random translations.

 

[Enkiari]

You should probably write forum posts yourself.
Aint no way a real person writes/talks this way in a forum.

 

[MidnightCultivator]

You should probably write forum posts yourself.
Aint no way a real person writes/talks this way in a forum.

Well the butlerGpt is better than me in writing and i am just lazy to write all these things myself.