[One-on-one romance + goofy comedy + beloved by everyone + overwhelming dimensional advantage + political scheming in the later story]
Her unreliable master kicks Su Ran straight back to her mortal hometown: the General's Mansion, so poor it can barely keep the roof over its head.
She starts off dangling from a tree, suffers the ultimate social death, and then gets told that her whole family are cannon fodder who won't survive past chapter fifty?
Su Ran: “Thanks for asking. I'm the top poison cultivator of the immortal mountain, and I specialize in dealing with anyone who refuses to behave.”
The General's Mansion is poor? She sells one dud pill for fifty thousand, then opens a little teahouse that takes the capital by storm. She counts money until her hands cramp!
A noble lady picks a fight? Her fiancé breaks off the engagement? A princess sent to marry for peace tries to steal her man?
Su Ran's inner monologue: “Mortal arguments are so inefficient. Just crash into them and move on to the next.”
Her older brother gets attacked halfway down the road? She hits back with rotten vegetables and dog poop, straight-up magic attacks.
When faced with all kinds of schemes, she pulls out surprise eggs, stinky talismans, laxative powder… She uses the “local specialties” of the cultivation world to torment the villains until they're crying for their mothers.
The whole court thinks marrying Prince Jing, a sickly man who won't live past twenty, would be like jumping into a fire pit.
Only Su Ran knows that this prince, who acts like a sweet puppy but is actually a schemer, is the biggest rising star in the capital!
Later, once everything in the mortal world is settled, her second senior brother arrives on her master's orders to take Su Ran back to the mountain. Chu Zixu senses a crisis like never before…
The story is really good! It would be even better if the ending was perfect.