Chen Ning, a homebody, never imagined that the payback for writing a ten-thousand-character hate review would be transmigrating into the arrogant male lead she couldn’t stand
As a seasoned reader, Chen Ning always thought following “The Unrivaled Immortal Path” was an absolute joy, until...
After the arrogant male lead’s wife died, he started building a harem while trying to bring her back!
“Ugh!” Chen Ning immediately turned against the novel, leaving a ten-thousand-character hate review in the comments and blasting the male lead as a freeloader, a scumbag, and a blockhead...
Tragically, that very night, after fifteen straight days of overtime, she died suddenly from stress.
Bad news: She died suddenly.
Good news: She came back to life.
Bad news: She’d become the arrogant male lead she’d just spent ten thousand characters tearing apart, and he was a genuine good-for-nothing mortal.
Good news: He had a System.
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She transmigrated into the arrogant male lead, and his main quest was... to build a harem?!
System: See that Saintess of the Demon Realm? Win her over!
System: See that gentle healer? Win her over!
System: See that ancient artifact spirit? Win her over!
Chen Ning: Hold it. As an arrogant male lead, shouldn’t my main quest be cultivating and leveling up, not winning over beautiful women? Do I have to be a kept man to improve my cultivation?
System: Isn’t that how it works?
Chen Ning: Is this right?
System: Oh, come on. Everyone does it this way.
Chen Ning had no choice but to “win over” all kinds of beautiful women, eventually using her personal charm to become their “daughter,” “little sister,” and “bestie.”
One day, she met the woman she’d always admired: the seemingly aloof but actually gentle and considerate senior disciple, who was also the original male lead’s official wife.
Chen Ning: Goddess, would you like a wife... I mean, a husband?
Xie Shutong: ? My junior brother seems a little off in the head.
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Chen Ning devoted herself to following her goddess. She didn’t expect to become her cultivation partner; she only wanted to be her loyal little junior brother, always at her side.
But as she followed her around, the goddess confessed her feelings!
Xie Shutong: “You’re a good person.”
Chen Ning: “I’m in!”
By accident, she followed the original story’s plot, and the wife she’d just married died!
Heartbroken, Chen Ning wept bitterly, then resolved to embark on the long road to bring her wife back to life.
As Chen Ning put on a spatial ring containing a prepared ice coffin and decided to leave the sect, the long-ignored System rejoiced:
“You’ve finally decided to do the romance quests?!”
Chen Ning: “Get lost. Out of my way. I’m going to bring my wife back to life.”
Blurb set on 2026.08.03
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Plot-focused blurb:
It is said that “The Wonder Scrolls” consists of eight volumes, containing the path to ascension.
A thousand years have passed since the Primordial Ancestor ascended, and no one in the Nine Territories has succeeded since.
The sixth volume of “The Wonder Scrolls” vanished along with the Primordial Ancestor.
A thousand years later, Xie Shutong, a sword cultivator of the War Sect, appeared out of nowhere. She was regarded as the second person since the Primordial Ancestor with a real chance of ascending.
At that time, the seven remaining volumes of “The Wonder Scrolls” were held by the most prestigious of the seven schools in the Xuan Shu lineage: War, Craft, Medicine, Talisman, Letters, Knowledge, and the Unorthodox Path.
The War Sect’s “Heavenly Craft Scroll” was suddenly stolen, and the trail led straight to the secret sect of the Unorthodox Path.
Xie Shutong was ordered to investigate, but returned with a prodigy so astonishingly useless that he stunned the world.
Afterward, the geniuses of all seven schools entered the Nine Territories’ largest comprehensive academy to study.
Xie Shutong, the most dazzling senior disciple, died during an academy trial.
Chen Ning, the most stubborn junior disciple, vowed to bring her back to life.
When he carried the ice coffin on his back and went to the Medicine School’s Carefree Valley for help, he received only one answer:
The Medicine School’s “Spirit Pivot Scroll” says that only someone who has ascended and attained the Dao can learn how to revive the dead.
To revive the dead, one must ascend. To ascend, one must find all of “The Wonder Scrolls.”
[Reading Guide]
1. Early on, the junior disciple is a woman transmigrated into a man, and the senior disciple is a man transmigrated into a woman. There are gender-swap elements, so please don’t read if that bothers you.
2. The setting is entirely fictional. Any similarities are purely coincidental.
Theme: Don’t do to others what you wouldn’t want done to you
