[Strong heroine / lighthearted / subverts tropes / ensemble cast / slow burn / not mindless wish fulfillment / plot twists]
Prospective college student Lu Wuqiong is kidnapped and gravely injured. She enters a tangled mirror world, where her soul inhabits the body of a cannon-fodder villainess from a cultivation clan.
She witnesses the previous Host fail and get erased. The heroine is capricious and refuses to follow the plot, while the hero teeters on the brink of awakening and could go berserk at any moment.
And the damn System is utterly unreliable, treating her as a mere cannon-fodder tool.
Everyone is a schemer, each hiding a trove of secrets.
Lu Wuqiong learns skills, takes the sect entrance exams, gathers underlings, and faces all manner of covert and open schemes, striving to become a schemer armed with a whole arsenal of skills.
The fog before her grows ever thicker, and all the mysteries unexpectedly point back to her.
