Everyone's Hustling, I'm Lying Flat

Cheng Yuan is clever and diligent, with an extraordinary natural talent. Everyone on Guiyun Peak considers her a once-in-a-generation prodigy.

One day, she wakes up to learn that she's actually a supporting female character in a story. She joins a prestigious sect as a child, makes a name for herself in battle as a young woman, and in middle age...

Sorry, there is no middle age.

According to the story, the Demon Realm targets her because she's too talented. To force her to fall into demonic ways, they frame her repeatedly, leading to her expulsion from the sect and the loss of all her friends and allies.

Five years later, during the immortal-demon war sparked by the male and female leads, she tries to prove her innocence and save the world by sacrificing herself to the Dao, body and soul destroyed.

At the time, Cheng Yuan has been in the sect for just one year. She nervously points out that she's only a supporting character and can't bear such a heavy responsibility.

To avoid the tragic ending where she sacrifices herself to the Dao, she racks her brains and comes up with the perfect plan.

While her fellow disciples practice swordsmanship, she sleeps in her room.

While they practice magic, she catches fish in the lake.

While they enter an illusion, she plants vegetables in the back hills.

Cheng Yuan: As long as I don't work hard, no one can make me sacrifice myself to the Dao!

Even so, Cheng Yuan's cultivation still improves at a shocking pace. After sleeping for three days and nights, she wakes up in horror to discover that she has formed a core!

Heaven's Will: This is the chosen one I've appointed to sacrifice herself to the Dao. No one is taking her place.

Cheng Yuan: Look at me, laughing and crying like a child throwing a tantrum...

A child just wants to live. Help me, please. Urgent, urgent, urgent, urgent.

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Gu Yunzheng is an oddity on Guiyun Peak. He's the sect's discipline elder, yet he's a law unto himself, spending at least half of every century away from the sect.

Sometimes he spends his days enjoying the world, carefree.

Sometimes he sleeps for a hundred years amid verdant mountains and clear waters.

After finally remembering that he's an elder, he returns to Guiyun Peak, only to find that the sect competition happens to be on his first day back.

He watches a girl named Cheng Yuan throw the match as thoroughly as she can, only to have her sword knocked away.

Later, whenever Gu Yunzheng drinks in the back hills, he often runs into the girl. Twice she's catching fish, twice she's catching birds, and once she's just staring into space.

After learning Cheng Yuan's secret, Gu Yunzheng says he has a way to solve her problem with very little effort.

Cheng Yuan gazes at him with wide, pitiful eyes.

Gu Yunzheng: But I'll be charging interest.

Cheng Yuan: As long as I don't have to sacrifice myself to the Dao, I'll do anything.

Gu Yunzheng: Then why not give yourself to me?

A sword cultivator who just wants to lie flat and stay alive x a carefree, unpredictable elder with a hidden dark side

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