Li Yulan transmigrates into a novel about a pampered darling and opens her eyes to a dead end.
In the original story, she falls hopelessly in love with her senior fellow disciple, grows jealous of her junior sister, and eventually runs out of value amid the protagonists' torturous romance, making a miserable exit. Having worked herself to death in her previous life, Li Yulan says: “Anyone who wants the lovesick heroine's role can have it. I'm clocking out on time.”
So while the main cast turns a misunderstanding into a tragic romance, she practices scientific farming in the Hundred Herbs Garden, doubling the yield of spiritual herbs. While they risk their lives for each other in secret realms, she happily scavenges around the outskirts, and ancient inheritances come knocking on their own. While they scheme and compete for attention, she's already built a cross-continent supply chain for pills and is quietly making a fortune.
The senior fellow disciple mocks her for lacking ambition? Sorry, her performance goal is ascension. The junior sister brags about how everyone dotes on her? Li Yulan has enough spirit stones to buy an entire mountain. The original plot desperately tries to drag her into the story, but she remains unshakable, focused solely on completing her own “cultivation KPIs”: cultivate, scavenge for treasures, build up resources, and then... clock out on time and enjoy eternal, carefree life.
Years later, war breaks out between the immortals and demons, and Heaven and Earth are overturned. The lovesick characters finally realize, at the heart of the battlefield, what love and the greater good mean.
Meanwhile, Li Yulan, who finished building her fortune long ago, is somewhere no one can see, steeping a pot of tea and leisurely reading the final page of her guide to ascension.
In a nutshell: Refuse the rat race, stay away from lovesick fools. This laid-back NPC's ultimate goal is to retire on time in the immortal realm.
