Reborn: The Tagalong Child Is Ready to Rise

[A hilarious new book coming soon: After the Substitute Awakens a Silly Meme System. Please add it to your collection! You can find it by visiting the author's page~]

Yuan Xiaohua was a famous beauty and good-for-nothing in the cultivation world. Her looks were peerlessly stunning, but her aptitude was utterly mediocre. Because of her unusual fate, she became Lu Buyu, the Child of Destiny's, fated dual-cultivation partner.

Once, Yuan Xiaohua was overjoyed to marry Lu Buyu. Though he was cold and indifferent, she devoted herself to following him.

Then one day, Luo Heng, who shared her fate, appeared and dazzled the world... It turned out she was the one who had been mistaken for someone else, a substitute who had usurped another's place.

Even more tragically, Luo Heng regarded her as a heart demon. With Lu Buyu's tacit approval, she destroyed Yuan Xiaohua's spiritual root and ended her path to immortality!

When she returned to the moment her spiritual root was destroyed, Yuan Xiaohua awakened memories of her past life: she had been a meme creator, but transmigrated into a cultivation novel as a cannon-fodder supporting female character.

[Ding! The Silly Meme Cultivation System has awakened. Keep creating original silly memes, and the Host can turn her fortunes around, advance in cultivation, and ascend to immortality in broad daylight!]

From then on, Yuan Xiaohua returned to her old line of work. Ghosts went into hiding when they met her, and gods went around the bend!

Before long, everyone in the cultivation world was saying:

"Whatever you do, don't provoke Yuan Xiaohua, and especially don't provoke her when she takes out her brush!"

"She only draws people who've crossed her. No matter how handsome or ugly they are in real life, she makes them look goofy, stupid, and despicable. And the people in her paintings don't just come to life, they're vicious as can be. Some even spew foul language and nonstop dirty talk!"

"They say the last person who picked a fight with her was beaten into tears by a goofy version of himself and a sleazy version of Lu Buyu, and called an idiot until he nearly went into a cultivation frenzy! She's wild!"

When Lu Buyu heard the rumors, his dark eyes remained indifferent, but his face turned a frightening shade of green.

*

Lu Buyu was born with immortal bones and peerless talent. He was destined to open an ascension passage for the mortal cultivation world.

Once, he thought his life would be devoted to cultivation and saving the world. Then that girl stopped looking at him. Her lively, interesting self became more and more distant, and his heart ached so badly that even the immortal bone in his chest throbbed, its marrow churning.

At last, defying the whole world's opposition, he removed his immortal bone and created a supreme spiritual root for Yuan Xiaohua.

Lu Buyu casually scattered one ugly version of himself after another, then pulled Yuan Xiaohua forcefully into his arms. His indifferent eyes concealed an unyielding resolve. "I don't want to save this world. I only want to save you."

※Content warnings:

1. Lu Buyu did not tacitly approve of Luo Heng destroying Yuan Xiaohua's spiritual root. It was all a misunderstanding.

2. Cliches and outrageous plot twists abound. Everything serves the plot.

[This story's blurb]

As the daughter of her father's ex-wife, Xu Morong was nothing but deadweight to the family.

Reborn, Xu Morong no longer wanted to force herself to become part of this family. They had never let her fit in anyway.

How can she escape her dysfunctional family and make a living on her own?

It's a tough question.

Someone said, "Come into my bowl."

Xu Morong shook her head without hesitation. "No, you come into mine!"

[Here's a fantasy romance by a friend, The Touch-Me-Not Is Off-Limits! by An Zhi Ruohan]

By chance, top-tier star and singing sensation Wen Han came into possession of a plant said to be extinct.

It was small and adorable, with tiny branches and little leaves like delicate feathers.

When someone poked it with a finger, its leaves immediately folded together as if bashful.

It was so shy, just like a bashful young girl.

When the bigwigs heard about it, they all wanted to see it for themselves, and even more so, to poke it and find out what the legendary touch-me-not was like.

But Wen Han wouldn't let anyone poke it. He wouldn't even let them look.

*

In her previous life, Xu Shi was the head of Wen Han's fan club.

But a gruesome prank by anti-fans scared her out of her wits.

When she woke up, she saw her idol Wen Han gazing at her tenderly, his slender fingers poking her on the head.

She was about to scream, then realized she had become a bashful little plant. A tiny fairy with little wings?

Xu Shi thought her situation was miserable. She discovered that every time Wen Han poked her,

she would spend another two hours as a touch-me-not.

Everyone said the aloof idol Wen Han had taken in a timid, easily bullied young girl.

Then one day, on a livestream,

Wen Han gritted his teeth, his eyes red. "If you try to run again, I'll expose you right now!"

Xu Shi turned her eyes away. "Then... are you going to keep poking me or not?"

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