[The protagonist is a real villain. This is a true, brutal face-slapping revenge story, and every character is evil.]
Only after Sang Zhi died did she learn that she was the vicious supporting female character in a xianxia novel.
As the heroine's foil, she was destined to be humiliated, abandoned, left without support, and meet a terrible end.
And that was exactly what happened.
The master who had once cared for her cast her aside as soon as the heroine arrived.
No matter how hard Sang Zhi cultivated, it could never compare to the heroine's sudden enlightenment.
Her fiance, whom she'd loved for years, carried on a secret affair with the heroine, while everyone else thought Sang Zhi deserved it.
Sang Zhi grew furious and resentful. She tried to attack the heroine, but the men and women gathered around her crippled Sang Zhi's cultivation and threw her into the Myriad Demon Cavern.
Countless demons gnawed at her soul, but the cavern's abundant demonic energy kept restoring her, leaving her unable to rest as she endured the same torment over and over, day and night.
After an unknowable number of years, Sang Zhi finally emerged from the Myriad Demon Cavern, carrying a hatred that could swallow the heavens.
Then the heroine and hero joined forces and killed her, scattering her soul into oblivion.
Only then did she realize how unfortunate it was that the fiance she'd once cherished wasn't the hero at all. He was merely one of the heroine's backup suitors.
It was utterly ridiculous.
When she woke again, the heroine was standing before her, frail and innocent, newly arrived at the sect. Her dear fiance wore an expression of tender warmth she had never seen before.
So the signs had been there all along.
A cool smile curled Sang Zhi's lips. She turned and returned to her cave abode, resuming her cultivation of the art of controlling puppets, a practice that the future cultivation world would call an unorthodox path.
Death would be far too easy for them. She would make everyone who had betrayed her...
Beg for life, yet be unable to die.
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P.S. In her previous life, the heroine was blinded by love. After being reborn, she's an obsessive career woman, ruthless to herself and even more ruthless to others. Please don't criticize me just because the heroine is evil _(:з"∠)_ (very quietly)
Theme: If you can't change things, choose to accept them with grace.