Zhou Yao is forced to bind herself to a System and stop a villain from turning evil and destroying the world. But she arrives in the wrong timeline, in the early days of the spiritual qi revival, an age of declining cultivation. The villain won't be born for another ten thousand years.
Forget stopping the villain: her original body can't withstand the power of time and space and is slowly falling apart. She can only earn this world's approval to repair it.
[System: Host, don't panic. We have golden fingers to hand out. Your original body can't move, so we'll open several secret identities to earn approval. We can definitely hold on until the villain is born!]
To stay alive, she decides to run several secret identities at once and work hard. Approval points? No problem.
Secret identity No. 1: A cool, aloof sword cultivator from a hidden sect who has remained out of sight in this age of declining cultivation. Dressed in white, proud and unyielding, she carries a sword that has traveled a thousand miles and chills fourteen provinces with a single strike.
Secret identity No. 2: The mysterious owner of an antique shop, dressed in a long robe. The items in the shop are treasures beyond anyone's wildest imagination, and countless people fight their way in for the chance to own just one.
Secret identity No. 3: A blind fortune-telling girl who knows the heavens above and the earth below. She likes to smile and offer you a piece of candy. "Want your fortune told? No charge if it's wrong."
Secret identity No. 4: ...
But these influential figures who stir up the entire world all seem to know one another. The thread connecting them is a pale-faced girl confined to a wheelchair.
Someone sees the radiant sword cultivator letting the girl play with her most beloved sword, then crouching down to feed her watermelon with a little spoon. The antique shop owner lets her handle anything she likes, trading priceless treasures worth tens of millions of gold for a hairpin the girl likes. The blind fortune-teller leans against her leg and playfully coos, using the money she earns from fortune-telling to buy the girl snacks.
Zhou Yao: What's wrong with using the money I worked so hard to earn to support my original body's life?
Reader's guide: 1. No one will ever discover the secret identities, no one! But there are scenes where other people ship the secret identities and the original body as a couple.
2. The secret identity numbers are only labels. They'll all appear, but the order depends on how the story develops.
3. Ten thousand years from now, forget destroying the world: even the villain will have to sit down and diligently write Ten Years of Cultivation, Five Years of Practice Exams.
4. Cover art by thanks to bs gu.
Theme: Our goal is world peace.