A Straight-Laced Sword Cultivator Reborn as a Beauty's Furnace Cauldron, and Livestreamed

Two male leads + adored by everyone + a battlefield of romantic rivals + a groveling redemption arc + snarky livestream comments and forum posts

Yun Qi, a powerful cultivator at the Tribulation Transcendence stage, failed to ascend and was struck dead by lightning. When he opened his eyes again, he discovered he had transmigrated into the incense burner of a storybook called "The Ashes of the Cauldron: Three Venerables Share One Incense Burner".

You've got to be kidding. Yun Qi spent three thousand years cultivating with a single-minded devotion to the Dao, and finally reached the Tribulation Transcendence stage. How could he possibly have transmigrated into a cauldron, unable to cultivate the Dao?!

Then the System punished him, and the cauldron breath within him erupted into a violent frenzy, leaving him utterly helpless.

A stream of strange golden characters drifted before Yun Qi's eyes. They were called “bullet comments.”

The comments said that in "The Ashes of the Cauldron", anyone who broke character would be punished. And his character was that of an unparalleled human cauldron whose constitution constantly gave off an exotic fragrance…

Worse still, this story had played out eighteen times. In the first seventeen, the human cauldron had ended up as a bride for the Three Venerables, and not once had he succeeded in ascending…

Yun Qi: “…”

Thanks for asking. I just transmigrated, and I want to die.

But a sword cultivator's Dao heart would rather break than bend.

Yun Qi decided to cleanse his marrow and reshape his bones, changing his cauldron constitution and fighting for a chance to ascend.

Later, Yun Qi discovered he wasn't the only one punished for breaking character.

The Three Venerables each offered him their most precious possession.

Shen Wei, the Sword Venerable, knelt prostrate outside his courtyard in the dead of night.

Xie Wang, the Demon Venerable, carved the deepest wound into his own chest.

Gu Zhui, the Demon Emperor, became a prisoner of his own deception.

Yun Qi said, “Sorry, I don't want any of that. Just stay away from me.”

* The livestream comments and forum posts serve a purpose, distinguishing between worlds of different dimensions.

* Yun Qi is not the constitution-based kind of universally adored protagonist. His past and present lives are both relevant.

* Things get a little angsty early on. Yun Qi's transformation into a human cauldron was engineered from the start, so his retaliation is weak at first. He'll be fine once he regains his memories.