Synopsis
[Tags] Cultivation + feel-good power fantasy + System + adorable pets + trope subversion + women's growth + standing up to trash men + silly humor + comedy + episodic short stories
Gu Chan is known in the modern relationship-advice world as the “Trash-Man Crusher,” an expert at dealing with every kind of manipulative jerk and their tricks. One day, she transmigrates to the world of cultivation, only to discover that it's crawling with trash men. Fortunately, all hope isn't lost: she binds herself to the [Trash Man Appraisal System] and picks up an orange cat that can only say “Hungry.”
She thinks it's just a food-loving little pet, but the orange cat turns out to be the incarnation of an ancient Sky-Swallowing Beast. One swat of its paw can teach her about cultivation, and one sniff can detect the stench of a trash man. And so Gu Chan begins her strange new career, doing what she does best in the cultivation world.
The senior brother of the Immortal Sect seems gentle but is secretly a “sleeper trash man”; the young master of the fox clan uses love as an excuse to control others; and a demon general dates several people at once while shamelessly defending himself... Faced with trash men of every stripe, Gu Chan brings out her anti-jerk pill furnace and concocts miraculous remedies for every kind of fool: “Clear-Headed Pills” for people blinded by love, “Courage to Talk Back Pills” to help you stand up to someone face-to-face, and “Trash Man Revealing Pills” to expose every lie.
From Qingyun Sect to Qingqiu in the demon realm, from the demonic lands to the ninth heaven, Gu Chan and her orange cat keep going farther down the road of setting trash men straight. The women they've hurt also find new lives with Gu Chan's help, eventually forming an anti-jerk alliance that commands respect across the Six Realms.
When a way home finally appears before her, Gu Chan hesitates. This world that needs her, these companions who trust her, and that chubby orange cat who keeps stealing her pills have all become bonds she can't bear to leave behind.
