A Bystander's Guide to Finding Loopholes in a Restricted Novel

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Li Ning transmigrates into a melodramatic restricted xianxia novel.

She isn't the delicate heroine, beautiful enough to captivate the world and fought over by powerful men. Nor is she the White Lotus supporting character who jealously schemes against the heroine.

She's the random fourth senior sister who nearly gets killed right at the start.

In the original story, the heroine's extraordinary beauty and natural cauldron physique bring disaster upon her. After her family is destroyed, Li Ning's master takes her back to the mountain and accepts her as his last disciple.

Before long, master and disciple fall secretly in love, and the master gives the heroine all sorts of special treatment.

Later, the heroine learns that her master was the one responsible for destroying her family. In tears, she throws the precious immortal pills he gave her into the bushes.

Li Ning happens to be passing by, picks up the pills, and leaps straight from Qi Refining to Foundation Establishment.

Immortal pills are so useful! From then on, Li Ning keeps finding reasons to hover around her junior sister.

Later, Li Ning picks up the rare sword manual the eldest senior brother gave the junior sister as a confession, the divine artifact the third senior brother risked his life to find for her, the secret treasure map to a hidden realm that the fifth martial uncle nearly died creating, and more.

In short, the entire sect goes crazy over the heroine, doing everything they can to win her favor.

Even the powerful figures outside the sect scheme to please her, wishing they could pluck the stars and moon from the sky just to make her smile.

Before anyone realizes it, the heroine transforms from a delicate, alluring junior sister into the Thousand-Faced Witch of the cultivation world,

while Li Ning munches on snacks and quietly rises to the Tribulation Transcendence stage by picking up scraps.

One day, the White Lotus second senior sister, who has always been insanely jealous of the heroine, seizes her chance. She captures a handsome man rumored to be a spy from the Demon Realm and throws him onto the heroine's bed.

She plans to summon the whole sect to catch them in the act and expose the junior sister as a spy from the Demon Realm.

But the junior sister turns around and puts the man in Li Ning's bed, claiming he's her long-lost mortal elder brother and that he and fourth senior sister have long been in love. She begs the sect to give them their blessing.

Li Ning: "..." I don't want to pick up this scrap!

But for the man's peerless looks, she goes along with the junior sister's setup.

On their wedding night, Li Ning is kept up until dawn by her "mortal husband," whose blood-red eyes and demonic markings spread from his cheeks all the way to his dantian. She regrets it so much she could kick herself.

Can we get a divorce or what?!

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After the war between gods and demons, the world-destroying Demon God loses his sight, and the goddess who saved the world loses her memory. The two of them end up together in a remote town.

Ning Xin is a demon hunter. One day, passing through a small town, she takes a fancy to a beautiful, sickly blind man.

Using her magic to her advantage, Ning Xin resorts to a few tricks to get the handsome blind man to marry her.

After giving birth, Ning Xin suddenly recovers her memories and remembers that she was originally a doomed goddess in a xianxia novel.

Her only role was to give the heroine a chance to save the gloomy, violent male lead after badly injuring the main antagonist, the Demon God.

She was supposed to be killed by the male lead, the Demon God, after the battle and return to the real world.

Now she's alive, and the violent Demon God she injured is gently coaxing their little one to sleep.

So... she accidentally stole the male lead from the heroine.

Oh my god! This is completely out of control!

To get the plot back on track, Ning Xin makes a quick escape, abandoning even her child.

After erasing the goddess's memories, Yu Chi pretends to be blind so he can get close to her.

He intends to take her life while she's still gullible, but accidentally ends up sleeping with her instead.

Fine. For the grand ambition of unifying the Three Realms, Yu Chi puts up with it.

On the night the goddess gives birth, Yu Chi decides to give up his grand ambition for love and retire to a quiet life with his darling wife and sweet little one.

When he wakes up, his darling wife is gone, and a freshly written letter of divorce lies on the table.

Holding his hungry son, Yu Chi tears up the divorce letter and rips off the black cloth covering his eyes, revealing a pair of red eyes full of menace and cruelty.

You forced my hand. Now I'll overturn the Three Realms!

Theme: Staying alive is what matters most