[Two male leads + transmigrate into a book + cultivation + System + top × bottom + funny wish fulfillment + ensemble cast]
[Lu Weichen, top × Shen Tingxue, bottom]
Modern office worker Lu Weichen opens his eyes and finds himself inside an old-school cultivation novel, as a nameless NPC no one remembers.
System mission: Fix the harem plots involving the novel's eight women. Turn them all into pure, wholesome stories, and help the aloof immortal Shen Tingxue cultivate the path of ruthlessness and ascend to immortality.
Lu Weichen thumps his chest and agrees. Rewriting the script is his specialty.
Lu Weichen plans to save Shen Tingxue at a crucial moment and keep him from being poisoned by a deadly toxin.
But the System falters halfway through, and the antidote meant for Shen Tingxue accidentally goes into Lu Weichen's own mouth.
Shen Tingxue's path of ruthlessness crumbles!
Lu Weichen looks at the immortal lord who used to be so aloof and detached, with his heart set on the Dao, but who now watches him with a deep gaze as if constantly pondering something. His heart pounds wildly.
System: Listen, my KPI is getting him to ascend, not making you completely rewrite his path of ruthlessness into a sweet romance!
The fellow disciples watch the usually unapproachable Immortal Lord Shen stick by Lu Weichen all day long, and write three straight days of shocked commentary.
System: Does anyone get it? An NPC who was supposed to purify the plot just ran off with the immortal lord who follows the path of ruthlessness!
Shen Tingxue lowers his eyes and says softly, "Perhaps I need not cultivate this path of ruthlessness after all."
Lu Weichen: So, are you going to say the mission's complete or not?
This is a story about a cannon-fodder character turning his fate around and a dropout from the path of ruthlessness, and an effective example of how the Lingxiao Immortal Sect's reputation as a joke came about.
