The Bitter Little Melon I Picked Up Has Been Given a Bad Rap

[No romance + cultivation + ensemble cast + subverting tropes + mutual healing + five-person team]

Chu Xun is always surrounded by a group of people. They eat together in the dining hall, advance their cultivation at the training grounds, and kill rivals and hunt for treasure in secret realms.

But everyone says the people around her have terrible reputations.

Terrible reputations? I think you’re the ones with bad eyesight.

To her, they’re all kind-hearted little bitter melons.

If this were an old-school cultivation novel, her companions would be the supporting characters destined for tragic endings.

The fiancée in the “chasing your wife to the crematorium” trope has her engagement broken off and is shunned by everyone. The fake heiress in the “real and fake heiress” trope is poisoned, ruining her cultivation. The haughty, arrogant young lady has her spiritual root ripped out and her entire family wiped out. The one who hates scheming and flees far away dies on the road home.

Chu Xun has picked up her little bitter melons one by one, so she won’t let anyone hurt them.

Huh? Why are all the people waiting outside to take revenge looking for me?