[Transmigration + Rebirth + Two Female Leads + Canon Couple + Traditional Fantasy + Power Progression + Ensemble Cast + Strongest Female Lead] (Ahem, I can't decide who the male lead should be. If anyone reads this, place your bets in the comments. The most popular choice gets to be the male lead, but the romance will develop slowly.)
Yan Zhen finally got some time off. After finishing her favorite novel, she was browsing an antique street when someone bumped into her. The moment she opened her eyes, she saw a beauty.
The beauty's heart had been pierced through, yet she stood perfectly steady and shattered a sword.
Before Yan Zhen could react, the beauty had the sword at her throat.
Ten seconds later, the cannon-fodder crowd across from her started shouting their lines. Yan Zhen suddenly realized: this was the opening of the novel she'd finished reading yesterday.
Had she transmigrated?
A minute later, Yan Zhen threw her arms around the female lead and left with her. This lousy world had both martial arts and modern technology, but as an ordinary person with no status, Yan Zhen couldn't make it here. A world where the strong preyed on the weak, everyone was equal, and people could cultivate might be better.
Yan Zhen had chosen well. She gained a survival space that had never appeared in the original novel, and shared the female lead's greatest golden finger, the Firmament Pagoda.
So Yan Zhen started following the female lead around like an accessory.
When the female lead was poisoned, Yan Zhen suffered along with her. When the female lead made pills, Yan Zhen put her old skills to work crafting weapons, drawing on her background in weapons research. When the female lead came first in the entrance exam, Yan Zhen came second. When the female lead contracted a divine beast of time, Yan Zhen contracted a divine beast of space.
She managed to make the male lead look like the third wheel.
Male lead: I'm more like the clown here.
