I Changed the Plot of This Phoenix Novel for the Protagonist

After transmigrating into The Immortal Bride as a disposable handyman, Lin Mo opened his eyes in a woodshed, gnawing on a hard bun. In the original story, the lecherous Wang Laowu was about to find the gravely wounded immortal maiden Chu Qingyi, use his “romance strategy” to reach the pinnacle, and leave Lin Mo as a background character who wouldn’t survive three chapters.

When golden light fell in the east of the village and a black snake roared, Chu Qingyi crashed into a scorched pit with The Essentials of Celestial Master Talismans in hand. Lin Mo shoved Wang Laowu aside and rushed to save the woman and the book on a manure cart: “There’s no such thing as a destined protagonist in the struggle for immortality!”

But the plot refused to cooperate. Wang Laowu blocked the door with an ax, a venomous snake bit Lin Mo’s leg and poisoned him, and the original story’s “rightful lead,” Wang Ye, surrounded him with cultivators and vowed to grind his bones to dust. Gritting his teeth, Lin Mo used his blood essence to draw talismans, fought vicious beasts in a cold pool, and used his crookedly drawn charms to seal the immortal maiden’s dissipating source energy.

“Chu Qingyi, I’m the one you’re destined to be with.”

He went from a woodshed handyman to a rising star, taking on the world of cultivation with a battered old book. He used talismans to drive off powerful foes and gathered spiritual qi in his sea of consciousness, turning the story that should have belonged to Old Man Wang into his own tale of a spectacular comeback. But why did the cool, distant immortal maiden he had “stolen” from the original protagonist keep blushing late at night as she used spiritual energy to suppress the snake venom in his body? This plot seemed to be getting more and more twisted…