The White Moonlight Joins the Villain Sect

Jiang Zhi was the cannon-fodder, white-moonlight character whose fate was manipulated by others in a storybook. The heroine was lively and clever, sweet and innocent, and brilliant as snow. Her master was as pure as a breeze and bright as the moon. Her senior brother was richer than anyone under heaven. Her junior brother was obsessive and possessive. The Demon Emperor was wickedly charming... They all loved her. The irony was that Jiang Zhi had once been the white moonlight of every one of them. Later, Jiang Zhi wondered: Was her life really supposed to revolve around these men? Fighting over them, getting jealous, and scheming against each other? How ridiculous. Word had it that the genius girl of Shentian Sect, whose cultivation had been destroyed, had left the sect of her own accord and joined a tiny sect. Months later, at the Grand Tournament of the Hundred Sects, she had taken first place in the world again! Later still, people heard that the head of Shentian Sect and his two disciples had gone mad. They abandoned their sect, cast aside their dignity, and begged desperately for their white moonlight to return. And that white moonlight did return once, but she came back with a knife in hand, ready to kill. * By a twist of fate, Jiang Zhi joined a sect with just three members. She had thought it was some obscure little sect, but the names of its members sounded far too familiar. The old man, her master: Wasn't he the wanted criminal who stormed Shentian Sect thirty years ago and destroyed its Eight Great Peaks? A follower of the demon king from the storybook, and a major, major villain! Her senior sister: Wasn't she the one who challenged the whole world in the storybook, claimed to be the best under heaven, got knocked down a peg, turned evil, and became a major villain? Her sickly junior brother: Wasn't he the naturally wicked one from the storybook, abandoned by his family before turning evil, a pitiful little thing at first and a major villain later? And the sect's founder was none other than the demon who nearly destroyed the cultivation world a thousand years ago! Just as Jiang Zhi turned to run, the old man shoved the ring that symbolized the sect master's authority onto her thumb and clamped it there. The old man clasped her hand tightly. "Jiang Zhi, you're the reincarnation of our founder. In your hands, our sect will surely flourish and make a name for itself again!" Jiang Zhi: "The founder was a demon, so I'm a demon? Your founder was a man. You've got the wrong person!" The old man held the ring in place, making sure it had accepted her as its master. "Who says you can't be reborn as a woman?" He turned away and let out a deep sigh of relief, his face relaxing as he beamed with joy, as if a great burden had been lifted. The whole sect is full of villains. Jiang Zhi is the only normal one. Jiang Zhi tried with all her might to pull the ring off. "Maybe I can still save them?" ** One-on-one romance. The leads won't be put through angst. Because of the luck-based mechanics, the supporting characters are extremely, extremely, extremely stupid early on. No rivalry between women. When the heroine realizes she might be developing that kind of rivalry, she leaves the sect of her own accord. The heroine is strong, and the male lead won't be stronger than her. %Teaser for Because I'm Afraid of Dying, I Maxed Out My Cultivation Baili Shannai is the ultimate villain, a great demon from a novel. She doesn't know how strong the person who killed her is. All she remembers is being pricked by thousands of needles until she looked like a porcupine. Luckily, the story hasn't started yet, so she has another five hundred years to cultivate. Five hundred years later, Shannai, having mastered her cultivation technique, leaves the demon realm with a modest goal: crush the righteous sects and take their territory! She knows better than to rush in recklessly. She'll bring them down from within. So she sneaks into the recruitment drive of the greatest sect in the land, only to be tested and found to have the useless Five-Element Spirit Root! She's told she'll be a good-for-nothing for the rest of her life. Shannai: "What! My strength counts as useless here?" Devastated, Shannai slams her fist into the spirit-testing mountain, shattering it and causing a landslide. But the crowd is only concerned about her: "Look at the poor girl. She's so scared she doesn't even know to run. Are you hurt?" Later, she meets two people who were also rejected by the greatest sect. They look familiar, and she decides this must be love at first sight. Well, that's hilarious. She's ended up in the protagonist's group. No matter. The plan goes on: bring them down from within. Cang Zhu has a junior sister who's incredibly cute. Whenever something goes wrong, she says, "Dou Sha." Never mind. He knows she likes red-bean glutinous rice cakes. Until one day, his junior sister is kidnapped by bad guys. When Cang Zhu finds her, she's standing atop a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, drenched in gore, smashing one head after another with a staff. That's when he finally understands. She meant, "Kill them all." He loves her even more. Theme: Live with strength! Live with confidence!