The Laid-Back Player Became Number One on the Leaderboard

[The story is complete. Thank you to everyone who supports the author by buying the official edition. My next book, After Reciting My Lines, I Ascended to Immortality, is now available. Add it to your collection!] Yu Zhiyao transmigrates into the eldest senior sister of the Cloud Sword Sect, a girl born with a luck buff. She spends more than ten years lazing around in the cultivation world, watching herself go from a once-in-a-generation genius to a useless couch potato. The sect leader and elders all lament the fall of a genius, while her junior brothers and sisters consider her a disgrace. Then the Cloudborn Immortal Realm appears in the cultivation world, open to talented people under a hundred years old for training. There are five places, awarded according to the rankings on the Heavenly List. First: Yu Zhiyao. Second: Luo Yunye. Everyone is shocked. Yu Zhiyao is shocked too. Oh no, my secret identity has been exposed! But everyone is convinced she's a useless couch potato, so her junior brothers and sisters come to challenge her. Even the doorman who sweeps the grounds wants to compete for a place on the Heavenly List. Yu Zhiyao has no choice but to flee the Cloud Sword Sect. While escaping, she runs into Luo Yunye, who has also fled the Cloud Talisman Sect after his secret identity was exposed, and who has a stacked bad-luck buff. They meet without recognizing each other and try to outdo one another at acting miserable. Each thinks the other has it worse, so they happily set off together :) They pass through Demon Mountain, where a giant demon boar chases Luo Yunye all over the mountain. A little demon boar takes a liking to Yu Zhiyao and willingly becomes her mount, carrying her around as she watches Luo Yunye being chased. In Illusion Mountain, Yu Zhiyao walks forward without a care, while Luo Yunye follows right behind her, step for step, and faces a whole gauntlet of blades and flames, nearly losing his life. Luo Yunye: "...You call that miserable?" Yu Zhiyao: "Oh, I'm just lucky." Luo Yunye: "..." After being unlucky again and again, Yu Zhiyao pities him: "Want to borrow some of my luck?" Luo Yunye refuses coolly: "No need!" A little scene Under the heavenly tribulation, Luo Yunye is struck until blood pours from his eyes, ears, nose, and mouth. Yu Zhiyao quickly hugs the little unlucky guy, and the clouds clear and the thunder stops at once. Luo Yunye: "..." Luck really is great. Let me borrow some more! Author's note: My own take on cultivation, lots of original worldbuilding, and a silly story. Cultivation levels: Qi Refining -> Foundation Establishment -> Heaven Opening Realm -> Clear Mind Realm -> Void Shattering Realm -> Unity Realm -> Heavenly Human Realm ----------------Synopsis for a forthcoming novel---------------- After Reciting My Lines, I Ascended to Immortality Rong Yu is unlucky enough to transmigrate into a book as a villainous female character who shares her name. The System tells her she has to recite every iconic line in the book to change her fate and fake her death to survive. In short, she has to lavish praise on the male lead and humiliate the villain. Rong Yu, who has played countless bit parts, is confident: "I know this job!" Iconic scene one: The villain is badly injured. The female character goes to pick a fight with him, but accidentally discovers his demon form and draws her sword in fury. When the plot point arrives, Rong Yu confidently pushes open the door and sees the villain transform into a snow-white kitten right before her eyes. Rong Yu: "!" She can't resist hugging the kitten and giving it a good ruffle as she delivers her line: "I'll show you how I deal with a vile demon like you!" Villain: "!" Iconic scene two: During a sect tournament, the male lead and the villain face off, and the villain loses by a narrow margin. The female character heroically praises the male lead. When the plot point arrives, the villain is beating the male lead so badly that he's almost at death's door. Unable to bear watching any longer, Rong Yu speaks in a trembling voice that rises in pitch: "Wow, Senior Brother Nan is as impressive as ever." Badly beaten and barely conscious, the male lead hears her sarcastic mockery and spits out three mouthfuls of blood. At last, after stumbling through every iconic scene in the book, the villainous female character's role comes to an end. Rong Yu excitedly says, "I've wrapped! Huh? Why am I still alive?" The System, busy shipping her with the villain: "You can forget about dying!" #How the villain ended up living like the male lead and somehow turned the villainous female character into the heroine too# From the villain's perspective: A demon cultivator despised by everyone sneaks into an immortal sect to cultivate, but someone discovers his true identity. But the other person doesn't care at all and even treats him kindly, often bringing him spirit pills, little toys, and other things. The kitten doesn't understand. The kitten is baffled. The kitten thinks it over and reaches one conclusion: this person wants him! He's heard that humans don't cherish what they've already gotten. So he curls his tail and says haughtily: "You can pet me once." Theme: Never surrender to fate.