The Cannon Fodder Villainess Conquers the Cultivation World by Writing Over-the-Top Fiction

[I may revise the blurb before posting, but the central premise won't change. Mwah~]

Yu Zhen transmigrated into a book, along with a useless System.

[You have transmigrated into an old-school cultivation harem novel about a gu dian pastry shop.]

[This is a world where the Dao is carried through writing. Those born with spiritual roots can truly embark on the path of cultivation only by writing words that move cultivators who cultivate their hearts and demand inner tranquility, stirring them to awe, praise, and emotional turmoil. Only when they are affected by the words they read can they advance their cultivation.]

[And you are the cannon-fodder female character who gets sucked dry by the evil cultivator male lead and turned into a withered husk. When you first set foot on the immortal path, you ignored him, triggering his "Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river" switch. This led him to obtain a golden finger and become the only person in this story to follow the traditional path of cultivation.]

[According to the original novel, you have 1,130 chapters left before you become a withered husk. Host, work hard to write your way to godhood, take down the male lead, the world's bug, and unite the cultivation world!]

[P.S. If you can write words that stir the male lead, your cultivation will progress twice as fast.]

Having said all this, that very night the System watched helplessly as a gender-swapped, old-school, melodramatic hzc novel titled After Rejecting the Immortal Lord, I Chased Him to the Crematorium was freshly completed.

The novel depicted a male lead, a remarkably gifted heir to a cultivation family, who dug out his spiritual roots and nascent soul, gave her his entire bloodline, and tried every possible way to help an ordinary mortal cultivate, all to win the heart of a mortal girl. Yet the heroine always treated him coldly and never once gave him a proper look. In the end, just as the male lead's heart turned to ashes and he resolved to sever all emotion, the heroine finally came to her senses and chased after him with blood-red eyes.

That's all the blurb says. Given the title and blurb, anyone who'd read this thing would surely be there for the pursuit-and-regret hzc plot.

But the second half of what Yu Zhen told the System was this: "I'll write the blood-red-eyes scene in the third-to-last chapter. Then, in the second-to-last chapter, she'll chase him to the bathhouse, and the final chapter will wrap things up with a perfect happy ending."

[But, Host, isn't this false advertising? I have a feeling that if you publish this, the men who make up the majority of the cultivation world will join forces to hunt you down.]

Yu Zhen: "Didn't you tell me to write something that would fill people with awe, praise, and emotional turmoil? Doesn't the impotent rage people feel when I show up count as being affected by my writing?"

System: ...I have no way to refute that?

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From the day After Rejecting the Immortal Lord, I Chased Him to the Crematorium was published, the entire cultivation world entered a strange state of harmony.

Male cultivators hated the author to the core, while female cultivators showered the author with endless admiration.

The powerful emotions of countless cultivators, normally as calm as still water, were stirred by Yu Zhen's writing. Yu Zhen just lay at home and ascended to immortality.

[Host, you're truly amazing!!!]

In response to the System's early message of awe and admiration, the professional male-tormentor and pursuit-to-the-bathhouse author said:

But I haven't even published my classic-style Male Virtues, modeled on the Admonitions for Women.

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My own take on cultivation: a lighthearted, ridiculous power fantasy written for a laugh.

Theme: You have to love yourself