After I Transmigrated into a Book, I Became the Great Villain of a Cultivation Novel

[The cultivation novel next door, featuring a female protagonist, is currently updating. Please add it to your collection~] [Blurb] Shen Yu wakes up one day to find he’s become a baby, and a boy at that! After finally coming to terms with his changed sex, he’s ready to follow the male leads of imperial-examination novels and rise to the top of the world. But then he accidentally overhears his niece from the next room talking to the System, and learns that he’s actually a cannon-fodder character in a farming novel! He can’t just sit around waiting for his fate. He has to stay away from the heroine to stay alive, and do his best to split off from the family as soon as possible so he can build a fortune with his parents. But just as the village joyfully welcomes the immortals who have come to take on disciples, his dream of being the protagonist shatters when he’s found to possess an exceptional spiritual root. From all the cultivation novels he’s read, it’s the mixed spiritual roots that offer room to grow. It seems he’s destined to be a stepping-stone on the protagonist’s road to success. Who would have thought that, as a high-level cannon-fodder character with an exceptional spiritual root, he’d be mobbed by transmigrated and reborn women from all directions, each one clamoring to cling to him? He’s bewildered. As he dodges a young woman pretending to trip into his arms, he wonders: could his dream of being the protagonist still come true? Upcoming novel blurb: After Marrying the Fake Heiress Gu Jinyu, a university professor researching cutting-edge topics, dies suddenly late one night because of his frail health, then transmigrates into the body of a farm boy in the countryside of ancient times. When he opens his eyes, everything is a festive, brilliant red. In the middle of a shabby, dilapidated bridal chamber, in a home with bare walls, sits a pretty young girl who looks completely out of place. The girl grips a rusty pair of scissors and holds them to her neck, trying to look fierce as she faces him. “Marrying down to you was never my choice. If you take one more step, I... I’ll die right here in front of you!” Gu Jinyu: Why did I transmigrate with a wife bundled in? He looks at the girl, who can’t be more than fifteen, sighs, picks up a ragged quilt nearby, and silently makes himself a bed on the floor. As he recalls the original owner’s memories and gets his thoughts in order, he finally realizes he has transmigrated into a book! The girl is the fake heiress in a household-intrigue novel about a true and fake heiress, who lost her battle of wits against the original heroine. The true heiress, the original heroine, drove her back to the countryside and schemed to marry her off to him, a poor, shiftless hooligan. Gu Jinyu pats his arm. At least this body is much healthier than his sickly one in his previous life. Might as well make do. What else can they do, get divorced? To give them a better life, and to keep the girl from meeting the tragic end of the original plot, Gu Jinyu has no choice but to roll up his sleeves and use the skill he’s best at: teaching. No, wait, studying! Becoming the top scholar, gaining an audience with the emperor, and rising to prominence will naturally be a piece of cake for him. P.S. ① Romance told from the male lead’s perspective ② The heroine is spoiled and willful, but not a bad person. Please don’t read if that bothers you. ③ The main focus is his career, with some scenes of him teaching and doting on his wife, but not many (Orz, I can’t write sweet romance.) Theme: After weathering countless storms, never forget where you began