After Cultivating with the Bigwigs Through Clickbait Headlines

(Main story complete! A conventional cultivation setting, so you can read without overthinking) Xiao Niannian transmigrated into a book, becoming a low-ranking disciple of the Hehuan Sect who was constantly bullied. As soon as she arrived, she was afflicted with the Hehuan Poison Gu. Within ten days, she had to cultivate with a cultivator at the Golden Core stage or above. According to the plot, the original owner chose to seduce the male lead, only to be mocked and rejected by him. Her head was blown apart, advancing the romance between the leads. Xiao Niannian: I'm not about to be a disposable plot device if it means getting myself killed. So she set her sights on the people, righteous and wicked alike, imprisoned in the Hehuan Sect's forbidden grounds, and picked the best-looking one. Since he was at the Golden Core stage, all she could do was politely propose a deal. Xiao Niannian: "Don't worry, I'll take responsibility. I'll do my best to give you whatever you want! Good food? Spirit pills? Once you give in to me, I could even secretly let you go!" The man was breathtakingly beautiful, cool and aloof. At her words, he gave her a detached glance. Xiao Niannian thought there was no chance. She quietly scattered some Bewitching Powder into the air, then, to buy time, fell back on her old specialty. "Or how about this? You've been locked up here for years. Aren't you bored? I could tell you a story." A flicker passed through the man's eyes. Before he could refuse, Xiao Niannian began: "Shocking! A righteous sect's grandmaster became infertile for life after doing this one thing!" The man: ... A little curious. Maybe he should hear her out? As she told her story, faint rattling chains sounded from all directions in the forbidden grounds. The other prisoners had gathered by their cave entrances to listen in secret, too. Over the next few days, Xiao Niannian replaced the gossip in the original novel with all kinds of clickbait headlines and melodramatic stories: Unbelievable! The Three Realms' greatest beauty, Sect Master Qiong Yao, did something like this in broad daylight! Men left speechless, women in tears: The inside story most cultivators don't know! Who is really pulling the strings in the cultivation world? Just as the aloof heartthrob was getting hooked, she suddenly stopped, clutching her head and speaking in a sweet, delicate voice: "The poison gu is acting up. What a shame. This story will never have an ending..." The man watched her for a long time, then rose and straightened his brocade robe before turning toward the cave. "Come here." Xiao Niannian scrambled to her feet and followed him inside, grinning from ear to ear. * Jiang Tingyun had once sworn that he would never set foot outside the forbidden grounds for the rest of his life. Until one day, he saw the crooked writing she had accidentally left behind. His heart stirred. He shattered the seal and went out to find her. The hundred great sects were just beginning a training camp to prepare for a battle against the Heavenly Demon. He stole a new disciple's identity and face to enter the mountain gate. Several days later, he finally found her, only to see her smiling brightly, surrounded by men on every side. Jiang Tingyun fell silent for a long time. Later, he found an opportunity to "reluctantly" take off his clothes in front of her. Oblivious Xiao Niannian: Heh heh, I hereby declare that this man is officially my Nth husband! Xiao Niannian, later on: Fine, fine. It's okay if he's emotionally cold, as long as he's not cold in bed. * 1. The second-generation disciples of the Hehuan Sect all have cutesy reduplicated names. I never thought names needed a warning before, but if that bothers you, please don't read. 2. This isn't a meticulous, level-by-level cultivation story. The cultivation levels are here to serve the plot, so the system is simple: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, and Deity Transformation, followed by Tribulation and Ascension. 3. A little bit of everyone-loves-the-heroine wish fulfillment. 4. Although this is a one-man, one-woman romance, the heroine has plenty of quirks. Each chapter ends with a detailed, survival-guide-style list of potential triggers, so please make sure to read it. I'm begging you! My next book, Casual Work at the Doomsday Demon Lord's House, is open for follows! Please add it to your reading list! It's on my author page. It's so delicate and helpless, please show it some love!! Blurb: They say the cultivation world has changed hands again. Xuan Wuwang, the Demon Lord sealed away by the ten thousand sects all those years ago, has bathed the cultivation world in blood, flattened the Immortal Cloud Terrace, and claimed the highest divine throne. People say the demon is capricious, killing as casually as snapping a blade of grass. The former Immortal Lords have either become his willing lackeys or his prisoners. But none of that has anything to do with Yi Lan. She's just an ordinary mortal. Who cares who's in charge? Will it affect her three spirit stones a month? Then one day, a broker came to her with a job offer paying ten spirit stones a month: odd jobs at a wealthy household. The mansion where she was to work was as vast and gloomy as a palace. Her new employer sat deep within the main hall, with a face like carved ice and snow. His temper didn't seem great, either. On her first day, right in front of her, he crushed the core of a captured immortal cultivator. He gave her a strange look and asked what she thought. For some reason, Yi Lan felt a sudden heat in her chest and blurted out the truth: "I just cleaned that floor, you bastard! Are you going to clean up all this blood?" This was bad! She didn't know what kind of spell this was or how it worked, but Yi Lan was sure she was about to lose her job. But her employer didn't kill her or fire her. He raised an eyebrow, walked through the pool of blood, and left bloody footprints everywhere. Then he said coolly, in the most infuriating tone imaginable, "Clean it up." Yi Lan: ... She suffered under her awful employer's demands for a while. Then she noticed that he seemed to prefer killing people in the courtyard... That was nice. She didn't have to clean up after him. After keeping her head down for a while longer, one day her crazy employer was in a foul mood again, his face dark as he asked whether she was afraid she'd suddenly lose her life one day. Once more, the truth came spilling out against Yi Lan's will: "No." "Why not?" "Because I know how to slack off in moderation. I'm not lazy enough to draw attention, and I'm not hardworking enough to make anyone jealous. No one would pick an inconspicuous person like me to kill." Her employer wasn't angry. He even smiled. Suddenly, he pulled her close and told her that she had once been his cultivation partner. They'd fallen out for some reason, and later she'd lost her cultivation and ended up in the mortal world. Now, at last, he was sure of her identity. Yi Lan thought it sounded a little far-fetched, but then she remembered her savings of twenty spirit stones and decided he didn't seem to have any reason to lie to her. "If we're cultivation partners, can you raise my monthly pay a little?" Her employer's face darkened again. Yi Lan was about to say, Never mind if you can't. But he dragged her onto the bed. Later, Yi Lan started to believe him a little. After all, her employer treated her well and let her take spirit stones and treasures whenever she wanted. But sometimes she wondered if they'd been enemies in the past. He was awfully fierce when he kissed her... One day, a handsome and powerful cultivator came to find her. He told her that her employer was actually that dishonorable great demon, and that she was the goddess Ruo Yilan, who had once sealed him away! He asked her to help him from within and get rid of the demon. Somehow, her employer found out. He asked what she had said in reply. Yi Lan thought she was probably really going to die this time! Because what she'd said was: "He's my dearest husband now. That'll cost extra." As always, the truth slipped out. Her employer folded his arms and watched her for a moment before curving his lips into a smile. "Your dearest husband?" He didn't kill her, but he did torment her until she was nearly dead... Later, Yi Lan finally remembered! The truth was somewhere between what the two sides had told her, but it wasn't quite either version. Either way, she decided that Xuan Wuwang, that bastard, had to die! Theme: Love others wholeheartedly