[Four-Person Group] [No CP] [Female-Led] [Strong Female Lead] [Plot-Driven] [Transmigrate Into a Book]
After seven lives marked by endless misfortune, despite having no luck at all, and even dying violently, Shen Lan has always suspected she never finished drinking the Meng Po Soup. In her eighth life, she is born in the modern era of declining cultivation. As a child, her parents die unjustly, leaving her an orphan fostered by relatives who look down on her. Growing up, she first works as a hired thug for gangsters, getting used and exploited while scrambling to earn a living. After climbing out of juvenile detention, she becomes a martial arts instructor. Then, after staying up all night reading cultivation novels, she closes and opens her eyes from exhaustion, only to transmigrate into a book. She becomes an orphan the author mentions in passing to highlight how difficult it is to ascend to immortality, a child who dies while climbing toward the immortal sect.
Shen Lan thinks over the original story's naive, sweet heroine and her tragic romance, then looks at the innocent white lotus heroine trotting over to feed her. Suddenly, everything is clear. With her luck, even staying up late to read novels can give her a heart attack. She needs to find a powerful backer to cling to.
A female-led story with no golden finger and no male lead, though there will be a bit of a sapphic vibe. An ensemble cast where everyone has a role, and nobody is purely stupid. The heroine is chaotic neutral and no saint, with dual blades and a lightning spirit root, slashing immortals on the execution platform and severing worldly ties below. The author started out writing modules and favors plot-heavy interpretation, analysis, and mystery-solving. If you want a brainless, doted-on-by-everyone story where righteous and villainous characters alike lose their minds and simp, please look for another great story.
