After the Stand-In Got Linked to the Female Lead's System

[Preorder: A Half-Retired Life in the Tang Dynasty / This Fairy Is Not Quite Proper, blurbs below~] Qiao Qiao transmigrated into a cultivation novel as the female stand-in side character. According to the original plot, after the heroine returned from reincarnation, the stand-in's standing in the sect would plummet. She would eventually turn evil and frame the heroine, only to be turned into a puppet by one of the heroine's admirers. In the war between humans and demons, she would die without even leaving a trace. By the time Qiao Qiao arrived, the heroine had already returned. The good news: the stand-in hadn't turned evil yet. The bad news: the heroine was a cultivation-world grind queen, and as her foil, Qiao Qiao was still doomed to a tragic end. So what was she waiting for? Run! Even if she had to run until her legs gave out and jump off a cliff, she would never be stupid enough to stay and follow the stand-in script! Just as Qiao Qiao was packing her things to flee, she somehow became linked to the heroine's System, and suddenly heard mechanical voices at different distances: Distant voice: [Congratulations, Host. You achieved qi induction within one hour. Reward: one supreme-grade Heaven-tier cultivation manual.] Nearby voice: [Reward: one immortal-grade pill for cleansing your spiritual roots. Please collect it.] Qiao Qiao: Huh? The System wasn't hers, but a wooden box had appeared in her storage pouch. Inside was exactly the immortal pill mentioned by the nearby voice! Qiao Qiao: Holy crap! So as the stand-in, did she get half of the heroine's rewards too? Well, her feet suddenly seemed to have ideas of their own, and Qiao Qiao, who had been getting ready to flee, turned around and went back. A stand-in like this? She was all for it! * During the sect tournament, Qiao Qiao was stopped by her eldest senior brother and handed back her elite disciple token. The elite heroine fought tooth and nail to win first place. Distant voice: [Congratulations, Host, on winning a sect-level challenge for the first time. Reward: ten thousand high-grade spirit stones.] Nearby voice: [Reward: one piece of supreme-grade fire spirit essence. Please collect it.] The heroine smiled. Qiao Qiao cried, moved by the sight of such a huge piece of spirit essence, worth a hundred thousand high-grade spirit stones. In an ancient secret realm, Qiao Qiao was asked by her junior brother to return the sword's spirit-forging core. The sword-wielding heroine braved countless dangers to reach the heart of the realm. Distant voice: [Ding! Congratulations, Host, on obtaining a bottle of golden dragon blood. Reward: one chest of dragon treasure.] Nearby voice: [Reward: a phoenix bloodline transformation method and an immortal-grade Dream Phoenix Tree. Please collect them.] The heroine endured the agony of having her entire body transformed and became a half-dragon. Qiao Qiao took a nap and awakened as an ancient golden phoenix. Qiao Qiao was overjoyed. What kind of golden thigh was this, letting her quietly rake in a fortune! She went straight to the sect leader's eldest disciple, one of the heroine's admirers in the book. "Senior Brother, I've worn the supreme-grade robes you gave me. Don't worry, I had someone refine them again, and I'll deliver them to Junior Sister right away. I definitely won't delay her trip to gain experience!" The Golden Crow demon emperor, disguised as a human, smiled. "You took my feather, so you're mine, quack. If you dare give it to someone else, I'll chop your head off!" Qiao Qiao felt a chill run down her neck: ...There are quack romances in stand-in novels too??? Reading notes: 1. A lazy little stand-in and a goofy, innocent little Golden Crow 2. The original heroine is not vilified 3. The male lead never pursued the original heroine. The quack romance has a goofy reason behind it, and there are no greasy scenes 4. The stand-in doesn't get rewards for nothing. There is a very important and crucial reason she gets half of the original heroine's rewards Blurb for A Half-Retired Life in the Tang Dynasty After successfully clearing challenges in an infinite-flow world, Gu Yu transmigrates into the body of Gu Yu, a junior constable in Chang'an County during the Tang Dynasty. Her father earned her special admission to Chang'an County by giving his life in service to the court. Timid and unintelligent, she only knows how to keep her head down and work. She has nearly been bullied into becoming a kitchen maid who tends the fire. When Gu Yu arrives, she finds herself destitute, a hundred taels in debt, and responsible for a sickly younger brother. Her predecessor died after falling while gathering medicine for him in the mountains. But Gu Yu couldn't be more pleased with her situation. No more struggling between life and death day and night. She just has to clock in each day, squat in the kitchen, eat the good food before anyone else, and watch everyone else work themselves to death over cases, tearing their hair out... Who understands the joy of staying dry while everyone else gets rained on? Home is even more comfortable: pet the dog, grow some flowers, then secretly catch a few criminals to feed her golden finger and raise her little brother. Job done! This is the kind of retired life she never even dared to dream of... It would be even better if that dog from Chang'an County surnamed Zhao didn't keep trying every possible way to expose her identity! Zhao Zheng, heir to the Duke of Lu, was forced to retire from the Imperial Guard after being seriously injured. With nothing to live for, he was strong-armed by his imperial uncle, the emperor, into taking the post of county magistrate of Chang'an County. Upon taking office, he is faced with several difficult cases to solve, including a string of murders that has shocked Chang'an and a poisoning at an aristocratic estate on the outskirts of the county. On top of that, he must endure the taunts of his former colleagues and the mockery of his powerful relatives and friends... His motto is basically that, no matter how much he thinks about it, dying sooner would still be more pleasant. But before he can decide which way of dying would be less painful and wouldn't inconvenience his family, the culprits from several cases are dumped at the Chang'an County yamen, evidence and all. Zhao Zheng sits bolt upright, though he is on his deathbed. Wait, he can still be saved! If he can find this talented detective and urge... no, support them, so they can solve more cases, then maybe he can lie flat and retire in peace in Chang'an County. Perhaps life here isn't so bad after all! Fictional Tang Dynasty Sharp-tongued, restarted big shot * beautiful bootlicker who can bend with the wind Blurb for This Fairy Is Not Quite Proper Yu Shanshan was a famous grind queen in a post-apocalyptic world. If grinding didn't kill her, she would grind herself to death. To stay alive, she pushed her useless light-type ability, which could do nothing but illuminate, all the way to level nine, making herself one of the strongest people known throughout the various bases. Then a level-ten zombie emperor arrived, one who would bring countless bases to ruin. Yu Shanshan: I'm tired. Let's just destroy everything. * After perishing together with the zombie emperor, she transmigrated to the cultivation world and became an outer disciple of Yaoguang Sect on the cultivation continent. After nine years of cultivation, she had only reached the second level of Qi Refining, and she still had a five-element pseudo-spiritual root. If she couldn't break through to the fourth level of Qi Refining within another year, she would be expelled from the sect. Yu Shanshan simply decided to lie flat. After grinding through countless struggles, all she wanted was to be a lazy fish, happily living out her days until she was expelled, then going to the mortal world to enjoy her freedom. Her cultivation was enough for the mortal world. She would be content to live another life with money and free time. * Who could have guessed that her ability would come with her? Other people had only a dantian, where cultivation could form a golden core. She also had a brain domain, which contained a huge crystal core that had run out of energy. Yu Shanshan: ...Perfect. Even the faintest light-type ability could make a lazy fish more comfortable while lying flat. But unexpectedly, whenever her light-type ability leveled up, the crystal core in her brain would illuminate the spiritual roots in her dantian, slowly increasing their purity. Heaven: Your roots can go from the most good-for-nothing pseudo-spiritual roots to top-tier chaos spiritual roots, and ascension is just around the corner. Get grinding! Yu Shanshan, expressionless: There's no way I'm grinding again. Not in this life, or the next. But the grind queen's path has only one way forward: work yourself to the bone. A lazy fish, on the other hand, can lounge in countless ways. Who says a lazy fish can't ascend? Theme: People should learn to take things as they come