Li Bao is a baby koi fish living in modern society. Due to a System error, she gets dragged into a book.
The book is a cultivation novel with no romance, and she transmigrates into the darkened villainess who turns to hate after falling in love.
The original character is the male lead's junior sister. After repeatedly confessing to him and being rejected, she eventually turns her love to hatred, allies with demonic cultivators to attack the Immortal Sect, and is exposed in the end, dying with a sword through her heart at the hands of the person she loves.
Li Bao doesn't have to follow the original plot, but...
The System looks at the three-head-tall "darkened villainess," happily shaking a rattle and blowing bubbles, and is speechless.
A baby this little would have a hard time staying alive even without becoming a darkened villainess or following the original character's path.
After all, the miserable experiences of the original character's childhood were a major reason she became the way she did.
Just as the System decides to focus on keeping the little one alive first...
The little one, abandoned by her heartless parents in a bitterly cold place, manages to find a cozy cave and discovers a rare Scarlet Crystal Flame Stone from the cultivation world inside.
When her heartless parents offer her to an evil cultivator in exchange for pills, the evil cultivator happens to run into Immortal Sect disciples who are training down the mountain. He gets so scared that he drops the little one and runs away. She not only escapes without a scratch, but also gets cuddled and kissed by the disciples.
When the reborn male lead abandons her in the Demon Realm to fend for herself...
The System is so anxious it's about to turn into gibberish, but the little one toddles over to the villainous dragon and asks in her babyish voice, "Mr. Big Dragon, may I leap through your gate?"
Then she takes out her favorite cloth tiger, rises onto her tiptoes, and does her best to hold it up to him. "Li Bao gives Big Dragon something shiny~"
The villainous dragon, dazzled by the little pearl sewn onto the cloth tiger's nose: ...
System: ...
The System lets out a piglike squeal. "Good girl, what are you doing?! He's a vicious villain, he'll kill you! Run!"
But Li Bao shakes her little head and says firmly, "No. Wherever Big Dragon is, Li Bao will be there too. Li Bao wants to leap through Big Dragon's gate and become a Big Dragon too!"
The System is at a loss for words.
Only then does it remember that the little one is a koi, a kind of carp, and a carp's goal is to leap through the Dragon Gate!
Of course she'd act like that when she saw a dragon!
But how can it explain to the little one that this Dragon Gate isn't that Dragon Gate? Besides, this villain isn't just any villain. He's a powerhouse who can go toe-to-toe with the male lead, and he's incredibly vicious. He'll surely slap her to death...
The vicious villainous dragon accepts Li Bao's cloth tiger and brings her to the entrance of his cave, letting her leap through his doorway to her heart's content.
System: ...
Later, the vicious villain is no longer vicious, because a little bundle has taken up residence in his arms.
Later still, the male lead, who developed a heart demon after abandoning Li Bao in the Demon Realm, enters the Demon Realm too and becomes the leader of the Immortal Sect who "competes for the villain's affection."
System: ...I'm done, I'm done! My good girl really is a koi, she's amazing!
#We carps are born to leap through the Dragon Gate#
#Li Bao isn't a little simp, she's a little fish who chases love#
Theme: A life lived with faith and the effort to pursue it is a happy one