[Fantasy Romance + Xianxia Alternate World + The Main Cast Team Up to Fight Monsters, Level Up, and Clear Dungeons + Ensemble Cast + Secret Identities + Transmigrate into a Book + System + Villainess]
A mischievous, scheming, and viciously fierce darling of the unorthodox path vs. an apparently simple-minded, kindhearted, and loyal puppy of the orthodox sect
Rumor had it that the Saintess of the Thousand Red Grottoes was not only breathtakingly beautiful, but also possessed unfathomable cultivation. Many people thought she was the untouchable sort of celestial beauty, aloof from worldly concerns.
The cruel truth, however, was that Ye Tao, a novelist in the real world, had died suddenly one day after writing too much. When she woke up, she had entered the brainless, high-martial-arts, low-magic power fantasy she had written, The Years the Righteous Path's Light Kept Me in His Harem. She had become the cannon-fodder character who deceived the male lead with lies, false promises, and feigned affection at the beginning, earned his trust and favor, then sabotaged things at every turn, only to have her identity and true nature exposed by the real heroine and die miserably by the sword.
In other words, the Saintess.
She had planned to defy fate and, figuring that if she couldn't beat them, she might as well join them, slack off and ally herself with the good-guy team. But then she was bound to some System that ordered her to complete her life along the original route.
Fine. All she had to do was stick to the villainess script, right?
Let's see how Ye Tao manages to turn danger into safety and live to a ripe old age!
Along the way, she pretended that all she could do was heal and provide support. One moment, she would feign helping the real heroine with a poison, while actually arranging for a scorpion and a python to raise venomous insects together, leaving the other bugs to make her wounds even worse. The next, she would use a mind-bending powder on the male lead to make him lose his senses and sow discord in the good-guy team. She made one embarrassing spectacle of herself after another in her efforts to do evil.
In the end, she discovered that the big boss everyone had fought all the way to defeat, after laying waste to cities and vanquishing demons, was none other than herself.
Ye Tao: ?
