After working herself to death from overtime, modern-day office worker Lin Yan transmigrates into a cultivation novel as a nameless servant with the same name, one who doesn’t survive past chapter three. With five mismatched spiritual roots and the lowest cultivation level, she faces bullying from outer-sect thugs and the leering gaze of a sinister steward. Even Mo Yuan, the future villain who will destroy the world, is currently just a “good-for-nothing” boy anyone can push around.
Holding the novel’s plot in her hands, Lin Yan knows that lying flat means certain death. To stay alive, she secretly draws spiritual energy from discarded medicinal herbs to level up, while putting her workplace survival skills to use: she acts meek to avoid trouble when provoked, and quietly helps the villain when he’s in a tight spot. With moves that seem almost like she can see the future, she narrowly escapes death time and again.
But who could have guessed that the broken jade pendant she picked up on a whim concealed a mystery, or that the villain boy she casually helped would come to see her in a new light? As the once-good-for-nothing demon lord gradually reveals his edge, and the original plot keeps veering off course because of her, Lin Yan suddenly realizes that she may have turned her cannon-fodder role in a cultivation story into a triumphant comeback tale. And why is the villain she’s been “protecting” looking at her in such a strange way?
They all remained silent.