Lin Qing transmigrated and became a thousand-year-old snake spirit, a doomed cannon-fodder supporting character in a melodramatic novel who was about to be exorcised.
So she gave up and decided to plant grapes, brew wine, and wait to die.
Then one day, she found seven gourds growing on a vine, an old man living nearby, and her drunken pangolin-spirit friend beside her. She took one look and realized: This wasn't some melodramatic novel, it was Calabash Brothers!
She was the one who got beaten to death!
Just as despair set in, she discovered that her friend had ascended to immortality, there were eight gourds, and the old man had a wife.
...Oh. She'd scared herself for nothing.
She promptly went down the mountain to clear her head. Huh? Was this West Lake???
After a terrible misunderstanding, a peerlessly beautiful snake woman in white chased her and beat her up.
Stumbling back to her cave, she returned to her true form. OMG, you scared me! Turns out I'm a green snake.
The System blared: “Key character Bai Suzhen detected. Sis-Protector System bound. Your first and foremost goal in this life is to protect Bai Suzhen. If you stray from that path, your soul will be annihilated.”
Lin Qing instantly hit Confirm. As a beauty determined to protect all the wonderful things in the world that were like her, she finally understood why she'd come here: to make sure Fahai's tower never gets built, and to make sure her tribulation never comes.
But there was a hidden line in the System's instructions that she hadn't seen:
“Fate cannot be defied. Forcibly rewriting it comes at an equivalent cost.”
Bai Suzhen's Leifeng Pagoda was gone. Lin Qing's Leifeng Pagoda was just beginning, with the first brick...
Very nice! Come on more!
The writing is very good, the plot is interesting, and there are cute bad jokes.