After Picking Up a Young Dragon-Proud Hero

A cute, stubbornly contrary girl vs. a loyal puppy of a man who's a jealous, scheming green tea

After Gui dies, she transmigrates into a cultivation world and picks up a down-and-out young boy from the start.

The poor boy is actually a destined hero. He'll fight monsters and level up, with one lucky opportunity after another. Gui has no idea, and is busy worrying about how to feed the sweet, clingy child at her side.

Along the way, Gui expressionlessly kicks away the golden finger old man, roasts the egg of an ancient divine beast, and casually tosses an unparalleled cultivation manual into the fire. She looks at the boy beside her. "Why are you so much trouble?"

The boy blinks pitifully and lowers his head in guilt. "I'm sorry, Sister."

Gui sighs, feeling that life as a ghost is hard.

Years later, an old man with white hair appears. "Ten years from now, the destined hero will suddenly descend upon the Ghost Realm and wipe out the entire domain with one sword."

Having read a few transmigration novels, Gui gets it. She has to win over the destined hero, care for him, change his heart, and make him fall in love with her.

The old man shakes his head. "Wrong! I want you to kill him."

A few months later, Gui leaves the Ghost Realm, ready to kill the destined hero once and for all.

She discovers that the down-and-out boy she picked up years ago hasn't fared too well.

His spiritual root has been ruined and his sword bones stolen. He's now the cultivation world's most notorious good-for-nothing junior brother, a stark contrast to his destined-hero senior brother.

After careful consideration, Gui decides to do something about it.

Among other things, she gives the boy all sorts of rare treasures and kills, one by one, everyone who bullies him.

But the boy wears a look that keeps everyone at arm's length. "Miss, please don't waste your concern on me."

Watching him give the rare treasures she brought him to his destined-hero senior brother, Gui can take no more and reveals her true face.

The boy's face turns cold as he sneers, "What stray cat or dog dares to impersonate my sister?"

Gui: "..."

Not long afterward, Gui buries the destined hero's corpse in the forest. The boy, resplendent in red, stands beside her and claps with a beaming smile. "You're amazing, Sister."

Gui's mouth twitches. "You weren't acting like this a few days ago."

As the days pass, Gui carries a divine artifact in her left hand, a treasure from a secret realm in her right, and an ancient divine beast at her heels.

She wonders, "Why do all this destined hero's golden fingers seem to have legs? They all ran over to me."

What she doesn't know is that the boy in red secretly tosses heavenly-grade artifacts, top-quality pills, and ten-thousand-year-old lingzhi onto the paths Gui will take, murmuring, "She likes this. I'll give it all to her..."

Gui watches the boy secretly burying treasures and falls into deep thought...

It seems she killed the wrong person.

The white-haired old man appears again. Looking at the destined hero nestled against the girl's shoulder, he says with satisfaction, "You young people really do have the best ideas. You solved a major threat to the Ghost Realm without any fighting."

Gui: "..."

Theme: Be yourself