After dying from overwork, office drone Yan Chi transmigrates into a female-led cultivation novel as the vicious supporting character who is in love with the heroine.
That's right, in love with the heroine, not the hero.
The vicious supporting character is the Demon Realm's female demon lord: powerful in cultivation and fabulously wealthy, but a hopeless romantic.
She pursues the heroine openly and is wholeheartedly devoted to her.
But two women can't have a happy ending, nor can they have children, which means the Demon Realm has no successor.
The elders of the Demon Realm are frantic. After sending handsome men and trying drugs, among other things, all to no avail, they secretly decide to kill her and send her to the afterlife with a cup of poisoned wine.
Yan Chi: ?
If she wants to survive, she has to flirt with everyone in the cultivation world, pass through a field of flowers without looking back, and become a playboy who never turns around, letting everyone know she's changed her ways and only likes men now.
As it happens, the cultivation world is currently obsessed with romances between monks and demons, humans and monsters, and masters and disciples.
Yan Chi decides to start with a monk-demon romance.
The Buddha Sect's Buddhist son is calm and composed. She donates a fortune to renovate the entire sect and restore its golden statues, successfully earning herself a place of honor in the sect and getting close to him.
The Unfeeling Sect's master entered the Path of Unfeeling through killing. Cold and heartless, he is a renowned beauty in the cultivation world, aloof as a flower atop a mountain.
But Yan Chi knows that the cold sect master is actually a fluffy fox spirit. So she splashes out spirit stones and offers a fortune for a chicken, all to make him smile, successfully securing a place in the Unfeeling Sect.
The Hehuan Sect's Daoist Qingfeng is dashing and charming, and has long topped the cultivation world's list of handsome men.
Yan Chi brings her money into the sect and becomes a disciple under Daoist Qingfeng, ready to begin a tragic, passionate master-disciple romance.
Later, rumors spread through the cultivation world that Demon Lord Yan Chi has fallen for someone else and is passionately in love with Pei Jinzhi, the Sword Sovereign's sole disciple. She even follows him relentlessly when he takes on substitute roles for other sects.
The important part is that the Sword Sovereign's disciple is a man.
The elders of the Demon Realm are moved to tears. That very night, they go to the Sword Sect with a betrothal gift and offer a fortune for his hand in marriage.
Yan Chi: ? So the Buddhist son of the Buddha Sect, the master of the Unfeeling Sect, and Daoist Qingfeng of the Hehuan Sect are all Pei Jinzhi?
She's still a simp, just for someone else?
This is absolutely ridiculous.
Pei Jinzhi was born with a sword bone, a rare genius not seen in a century and the successor to the next Sword Sovereign.
But he was born at the wrong time.
The Sword Sect has run out of resources and is growing poorer by the day. His master, Sword Sovereign Jingyuan, is combative and quick-tempered, and has racked up an enormous debt in spirit stones.
To ease their financial hardship, Pei Jinzhi secretly started working as a stand-in, taking the place of cultivators embroiled in romances involving desperate attempts to win back a lover, tragic love, or sudden realizations that they were in love with her, so they could pursue true love without worry.
But no matter what role he took, a rich female cultivator always chased after him, showering him with spirit stones to get close to him, openly and discreetly.
Time and again, he wanted to tell her, "There's no need. If you've got money, just give it to me. I can offer myself in exchange."
But out of professional integrity, he held back.
Later, his identity was exposed, and rumors spread through the cultivation world that she was infatuated with him.
He was overjoyed. At last, he could latch onto a rich patron and escape the hard life at the Sword Sect.
A straight woman who only wants to survive × a poker-faced man who secretly knows how to flirt.
Theme: See beyond appearances to the truth.
