Su Yiruo, a wage slave who only cares about making money, discovers that she's transmigrated into the role of a female lead destined for emotional and physical torment. She plans to run away.
Who would have thought
“You can't even compare to one of Lian'er's toes,” the cold-hearted male lead says. “I will never love you.”
[You successfully got the male lead to say 20 words. Reward: 20 taels of gold. Please check your storage pouch.]
Wage slave Su Yiruo: There's a deal like this?!
With 100 silver taels, you can buy a small house in the county. With 1,000, you can buy a house in the capital.
While diligently “working” in front of the male lead, she also teases the cat-eared beauty in the manor: the male lead's half-demon cousin, a gorgeous and miserable villain.
After “working” until she'd saved enough silver and acquired property and farmland across the cultivation world, she fakes her death and disappears.
The male lead finally comes to his senses and, consumed by grief, plans to cut “Su Yiruo's” heart and lungs out of the white-lotus female supporting character to bring her back to life.
Su Yiruo can't stand the brainless male lead anymore. To save the cultivation world from him and his love-addled ways, the wage slave has no choice but to return to work.
The beautiful, tragic young villain leads a million followers from the demon and devil realms in an attack on the cultivation world, determined to get justice for her.
But the young man is stunned to discover that the one sitting on the throne isn't the rotten male lead, but her, having unified the cultivation world.
Under her rule, the cultivation world thrives economically, and its people live in peace and prosperity.
The beautiful, tragic villain discards all his weapons, humbly steps forward, takes her hand, and presses it against his pale, fragile neck. He kneels at her feet and kisses her slender white ankle.
“Kill me, and you'll be the ruler of the cultivation world, the demon realm, and the devil realm. But before that...”
“Big Sister, please, love me.”
*First version of the blurb dated 2021.02.01, screenshot saved.
*Wage slave is an internet meme. The tortured female lead is a classic trope from old-school angst novels. The setting is low-level immortal cultivation with demons and devils, using familiar conventions. A groveling male lead plus sister-in-law romance (please don't come after me).
*Whenever the male lead or female supporting character says a word, the female lead earns one tael of silver, gold, or a piece of moonstone. The idea came from Chapter 32 of “Original Brainstorm Notes” in the author's works, conceived on 2019.09.04.
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