[The Hook]
When a doomed cannon-fodder mentor refuses to follow the plot, the rules of the entire cultivation world have to be rewritten for her.
[Synopsis]
Shen Weilan, a modern billionaire CEO, dies from overwork and wakes up inside a cultivation novel as a doomed villainous mentor destined to be abandoned by everyone and die by the sword.
On the first day she’s bound to the “Plot Maintenance System,” it orders her to take a hidden weapon for the heroine. She smiles. “I refuse.”
The System strikes her with heavenly punishment. She turns the lightning into a power generator.
The sect sends troops to hunt her down. She takes her loyal disciple and sharp-tongued best friend and defects from the sect instead.
The original male lead comes to cause trouble. She hires three hundred food-delivery riders to form a great array, pins him to the ground, and makes him scan a code to pay damages.
Since the cultivation world is locked into a rigid class system with resources monopolized by the powerful, she’ll use modern business models to crush it from above:
Her spiritual-herb milk tea sparks huge queues, flying-sword delivery revolutionizes logistics, magic treasure blind boxes bankrupt high-ranking cultivators, her spirit-stone money market fund attracts trillions in capital, and the November 11 shopping festival sends the whole cultivation world on a spending spree.
When the System and the original novel’s main cast join forces to bring down a heavenly tribulation and try to erase her from existence
Shen Weilan stands beneath the thunderclouds, pulls out a financial report, and smiles.
“Heavenly Dao, seventy percent of the spiritual energy you use comes from my mines. Now, let’s talk about an acquisition.”
[What to Expect]
· A refreshing subversion of the genre: the cannon-fodder refuses to play along, using capital to defeat magic and business to overturn fate
· Modern ideas overwhelm the past: milk tea, food delivery, blind boxes, money market funds, and the November 11 shopping festival. The cultivation world’s natives can only cry, “That’s just unfair!”
· Everyone dotes on everyone: the loyal disciple is a powerhouse.
Come on, you can do it.
It's pretty good. Highly recommended.