Everyone but Me Is the Protagonist

[Signed for simplified Chinese publication. For publication updates, see Weibo @Jinjiang Congwen.] Song Nanshi transmigrated into a cultivation world made up of three novels, where everyone in her sect except her was a protagonist. Her eldest senior brother is the male lead of an old-school, wish-fulfillment novel, complete with a broken engagement, a jade pendant containing an old master, and the nickname Dragon Aotian. Armed with a battered sword, he reaches Foundation Establishment and kills a powerful Nascent Soul expert. Her second senior sister is a scorned stand-in from a groveling-after-the-breakup story. Reborn and finally seeing the light, she has everyone from her aloof master to her former fiancé lining up to beg forgiveness. Her junior sister is the heroine of a sweet romance novel. She keeps a demon prince who can transform into a human in her cave abode, and he’s forever pinning her against the wall and kissing her with red-rimmed eyes. Song Nanshi became the least noticeable third senior sister in the sect. She had no special plotline at all, and although she’d been an atheist in her previous life, in this one she made her living as a fortune-teller, telling people’s fortunes with a turtle shell every day. Faced with a fate that routinely dragged her into the main plot as a background character, Song Nanshi, convinced she was the only ordinary person in her sect, decided to give up and coast. Eldest senior brother: “Junior sister, just because I was born lowly, does that mean I have to accept my fate?” Song Nanshi took out her turtle shell and chanted a spell. “Senior brother, your fate is in your hands, not Heaven’s.” Senior brother: “!” Second senior sister: “Junior sister, he’s gone this far for me. Should I forgive him? But I just can’t let go of my resentment!” Song Nanshi brought out her tarot cards. After a quick reading, she shook her head. “A love that comes too late is worth less than grass.” Second senior sister: “!” Junior sister, hesitantly: “Third senior sister, he said he wants to propose to me, but... he’s a demon, and I’m human.” Song Nanshi looked up at the gloomy sky. “I’ve read the heavens, and you two are a perfect match!” Junior sister: “!” Eldest senior brother / second senior sister / junior sister: She really gets me! In the original novel, Song Nanshi envied her fellow disciples and joined forces with the villainous boss, only for them both to be killed in the end. This time, she met the down-and-out villain, who had just been betrayed by his family. Song Nanshi fell silent for a moment, then pulled out her precious turtle shell and said solemnly, “Bro, want your fortune told? Only ten spirit stones.” Coming soon: I Made the Entire Cultivation World Compete Mu Tang was the queen of cutthroat competition and a winner in life in her previous life. After she died, the System sent her to be reborn in the cultivation world. System: “Your mission is to break up the destined couple, win over the male lead, and prevent the hero and heroine from falling into a tragic love affair and destroying the world for love!” Mu Tang stayed up all night finishing the original novel. Then she looked at the underage male lead and fell silent. She was baffled. “They’re so young. Don’t they have to go to school?” She decided the entire cultivation world had far too much free time. Maybe the cultivation world needed a little competition, too. She gave the innocent heroine, who had just joined her sect, a copy of Five Hundred Years of Cultivation, Three Hundred Years of Practice Exams, and said earnestly, “At your age, you should focus on your studies. No dating while you’re young. Once you’ve made it through these three hundred years and graduated, life will get a lot easier.” She preached the blessings of a 996 work schedule to the ambitious male lead, her words ringing in his ears. “How can someone your age possibly sleep in?” Before long, everyone in the sect noticed that their unremarkable senior sister had started getting up with the chickens and staying awake as long as the moon did. When she saw her eldest senior brother getting up only at daybreak, she exclaimed, “You’re only starting your sword practice now? I’ve already swung my sword ten thousand times!” She told her love-struck senior sister, “You still have time to date? Do you know how fierce the competition is in the cultivation world right now?” Her fellow disciples: “!!” The entire sect was dragged into the competition with her. Later, at the cultivation world’s grand tournament, everyone discovered that an unremarkable little sect could punch the top sect in the face and kick the greatest expert to the curb. They rose with the chickens and competed like mad. Cultivation world: “!!!” How could anyone stand for this?! The entire cultivation world was forced into the rat race. As the queen of cutthroat competition, Mu Tang always pushed herself harder. When everyone else was lazing around, she worked a 996 schedule. When they started doing 996, she moved on to 007. Later, looking at the entire cultivation world working 007, she sighed, lonely as snow. “I’m tired. A simple, ordinary life is what really matters.” Then she started coasting. And now the entire cultivation world refused to put up with it! If you’re going to coast, what are the rest of us, worked into knots, supposed to do?! The Demon King, a world-weary slacker in his previous life, was reborn one day and found himself back before it had all begun. With a weary face and a world-weary heart, the Demon King wanted to see whether the cultivation world was still as nauseating as he remembered. The moment he stepped out of his room, a flyer slapped him in the face. Full spiritual-power childcare from age zero to one. Don’t let your child fall behind at the starting line! Demon King: ??? Behind him lay a cultivation world worked into knots. Theme: Everyone can make an extraordinary life for themselves.