"No main pairing, but plenty of one-sided crushes. Everyone in the sect loves me."
"The original heroine isn't vilified, and everyone in the sect includes her too~"
Only when her life was in danger did Ye Tiaotiao learn that she was the villainess in a beloved heroine cultivation novel.
Her sweet, charming, kind-hearted junior sister Ye Yaoyao was the adored heroine. Everyone in the sect loved her, including the aloof master and sect leader, the steady and responsible senior brother, and the chivalrous junior brother... Even Ye Tiaotiao's sword spirit and spirit pet favored Ye Yaoyao, treating her more affectionately than they treated their own master.
In the book, Ye Tiaotiao constantly made things difficult for her junior sister and framed her time and again, nearly getting her killed. The sect leader punished Ye Tiaotiao according to sect law, cutting out her golden core and spiritual roots to give them to her junior sister.
Ye Tiaotiao finally understood why everyone in the sect saw her as a thorn in their side. But that's not how it happened, okay?!
Thankfully, there was still a way out. Ye Tiaotiao bonded with a System, which gave her two options:
1. Explain the truth to her fellow disciples, earn everyone's forgiveness, and reach a happy ending, with everyone making dumplings together!
Ye Tiaotiao: 2222222222222...
2. Abandon this body completely, start from scratch, and pursue the Path of Ruthlessness, eventually replacing her master as the sect leader of Tianyan Sect.
Ye Tiaotiao: This isn't a 2 at all, it's insanely awesome!
Just as Ye Tiaotiao was about to stab herself so she could reach paradise sooner, she discovered that her master, the sect leader, had placed a life-saving spell on her out of humanitarian concern, to stop her from taking her own life.
Even jumping off a cliff couldn't end her life.
But if someone threw a rock at her while flying on a sword, it could kill her.
In short, the spell could keep her from killing herself, but not from being killed by someone else or dying in an accident.
Ye Tiaotiao: Fine, fine, so that's how you want to play?
Then none of you are going to have an easy time!
From then on, Ye Tiaotiao's catchphrase became: "You know, I won't be around much longer..."
But behind everyone's backs, she fanned the flames: "Fight! Come on, all of you, fight!"
At first, they despised her. Then they began to waver. And finally, after she died, the sect remembered what was good about Ye Tiaotiao.
Her bold and uninhibited self was their cinnabar mole;
Her fragile and aloof self was their white moonlight.
During the next round of sect recruitment, a girl who looked remarkably like the late Ye Tiaotiao, and even had the exact same name, became an inner sect disciple by an overwhelming margin.
She pointed her sword at the high platform, her ambition plain to see. "I've come to become the sect leader."
Everyone assumed she had come for that aloof beauty, and even her master thought so. It wasn't until he stepped down from his position as sect leader that he realized there had never been a trace of him in her eyes that day.
Jinghong was the life-bound sword Ye Tiaotiao forged herself.
Everyone marveled that a newly forged sword could develop a sword spirit, saying it truly lived up to the name Jinghong.
But no one knew that the so-called Jinghong sword spirit was actually Ye Tiaotiao's System 2397.
Early on, the System tried to get Tiaotiao to win her fellow disciples' favor in exchange for points, but it soon got fed up with their attitude and stopped bringing it up.
The heroine holds a grudge.
I'm doing great. You don't deserve me.
But don't forget me. Every year on the anniversary of my death, remember to come crawling over and bow your heads! You little brats!
Tiaotiao means that the road of cultivation is long, and one must persevere with diligence and unwavering resolve.
I absolutely love this name!
Thanks to Bi Shui Gugu, whose username is I'm Not Nervous, for the cover!
Theme: Always stay true to yourself
