The Daoist master at Yangxian Abbey has a female disciple named Leng Yu.
Miss Leng is as cold as her name suggests, yet as pure as uncut jade.
Her left eye was born golden, allowing her to probe the yin and discern the yang, and see through the true forms of demons and spirits.
But no one knows that she transmigrated into this world as an unborn child, and in her previous life, she followed a Mary Sue novel.
In the book, she was a cannon-fodder senior sister who was mentioned in passing and never even appeared on-page.
To change her fate, after leaving the mountain she switched to practicing the blade, roaming the martial world with her demon-slaying broadsword to exterminate monsters and evil spirits.
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One day during a peaceful era, she came to the border between Zhong and Miao and heard that wolves and beasts often ran rampant in the high mountains and deep valleys.
The wolf-beasts could speak, and late at night, when all was quiet, they would howl in the forest, accusing the world of wronging them.
People in both Zhong and Miao said the woods were secluded and dark, and feared that demons were at work.
So Miss Leng volunteered, took up her long blade, and ventured alone into the dense forest.
But when a single stroke of her blade split the forest open, she realized that the Wolf King who spoke like a human was actually the deposed crown prince of Miao, exiled many years ago.
Only then did Leng Yu remember that the deposed crown prince was a cannon-fodder character too.
So, cannon fodder met cannon fodder, and they both shed tears.
The woman and the wolf hit it off at once. Leng Yu planned to help him regain his human form and reclaim the throne.
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Who could have known that, five years after the Wolf King and Crown Prince ascended the throne, Zhong and Miao would go to war, demons and spirits would run rampant, and the common people of both lands would be plunged into hardship and forced to flee their homes?
Only when Leng Yu looked back did she realize:
The mortal world she had glimpsed had never truly lifted its veil.
Alas, alas: I briefly open my heavenly eye to glimpse the mortal world, only to pity myself, a figure within its gaze.*
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Zhongli Yu had been trapped in the dense forest for years, and thought no one in the world would ever understand his grievances.
Until a girl came walking beneath the moonlight.
She broke the seal, helped him regain his human form, and return to the throne.
The girl said Zhongli Yu was cannon fodder in a book, a side character mentioned in passing.
At the time, he didn't understand what she meant by
