After ten years of quick transmigration, Jiang Jinxiu, now a max-level powerhouse, finally gets to retire.
Unfortunately, something goes wrong during the handover. Instead of going to the retirement world she was meant to, she ends up inside an old-school tragic xianxia novel as its heroine.
The System tells her: "As the heroine of a tragic romance, everyone will torment you a thousand times, yet you'll still love them as you did at first! From now on, you must not break character. You must follow the plot and go through a series of physically and emotionally tormenting scenes: love someone who will never love you back, be condemned by everyone, climb mountains of blades and cross seas of fire, be torn to pieces, have your body remade, and then have your heart's blood extracted. Only after you reach a happy ending with the male lead can you leave this world, return to System Space, and resume your retirement handover."
Jiang Jinxiu, who has always played the villain: "...You've got some nerve. Say that one more time!"
The System: "...If you don't want to, you must complete a series of study tasks assigned by the System before you can earn the chance to act out of character. You can skip the plot, but you still have to reach a happy ending."
Jiang Jinxiu: OJBK!
That night, Jiang Jinxiu finished an entire set of elementary school textbooks.
Faced with the vicious supporting woman who had been acting smug in front of her all day, Jiang Jinxiu slapped her hard. "Shut up!"
Later, when the sect's divine beast tried to treat her like a fool, Jiang Jinxiu sent it tumbling off a cliff with a roundhouse kick. "You idiot!"
Later still, when her scheming senior brother tried to use her as a cultivation furnace, Jiang Jinxiu shoved him into a pill furnace. "Off you go!"
Finally, faced with the male lead of the original story, her supposedly cold-hearted master, Jiang Jinxiu sharpened her knives, worked through her exam-prep books, and prepared to turn their romance into a reverse tragic love story so they could reach a happy ending.
But she waited and waited. Even after her good friend, the Demon Lord, helped her destroy the hypocritical sect, her male lead and master still never showed up to uphold justice.
On a dark and windy night, Jiang Jinxiu downed one cup of wine after another, heartbroken. "Master, where are you~!"
To her surprise, the man beside her wearing a Demon Lord's mask turned to look at her. "Right here."
[When the heroine completes her study tasks, she can act out of character and her fighting power is maxed out. When she hasn't completed them and must stay in character, her viciousness is maxed out.]
[The villain transmigrates into the heroine of a tragic romance. I want to become an immortal, and my magic knows no bounds! I'll take the villain's path and leave the villains nowhere to go!]
Theme: I want to become an immortal, and my magic knows no bounds.