After Ye Yiran dies, she discovers that she is merely a wicked supporting woman who exits early in an extraordinarily long, domineering hero novel. Before, she spent all her time flaunting herself beside her domineering hero senior brother, putting on airs and making a nuisance of herself until everyone found her unbearable. She was relentlessly jealous of the innocent, pure-hearted heroine, only to end up as a foil, mocked by her fellow disciples and eventually killed in a snake pit within a secret realm.
The domineering male lead and the pure-hearted female lead won't be devoted to each other for life, either. The male lead will have one beauty after another, while the heroine will add one gifted man after another to her harem.
One will become the peerless hero of countless female cultivators; the other, the unattainable moonlight of countless male cultivators.
Ye Yiran: "Pah."
After snakes devour Ye Yiran's body, her soul is trapped in the snake pit. For seven whole days, she can only pass the time with this melodramatic novel. When the seventh day comes, she prepares to meet her end, but she doesn't disappear.
All the snakes in the pit retreat, leaving behind only a green bamboo viper with a small red marking on its tail. It slithers toward her.
Ye Yiran is surprised that the snake can see her.
She is even more surprised when it brings her back to life.
When she awakens after her body has been remade, the bamboo viper is gone. In its place beside her is a secret manual: The Heartless Sword Path.
From then on, her nature changes completely. She severs her romantic attachments and cultivates the Heartless Path.
After leaving the snake pit, she cuts ties with her old sect, then turns around and joins another obscure sect as its junior sister, devoting herself to the Heartless Path.
But she keeps running into the male and female leads.
What's more, their protagonist aura seems to be affecting her senior brothers and sisters.
At last, Ye Yiran can't hold back from drawing her sword.
The Heartless Sword, every stroke severing a thread of attachment.
From then on, she travels and cuts down every obstacle in her way, ruining the domineering hero's harem plans and smashing the pure-hearted heroine's fishpond.
She vows to sever all three thousand threads of attachment in the cultivation world and attain the Dao through heartlessness!
[Reader's Guide]
1. An awakened, level-up story, cutting down romance-addicted fools across the world. My own take on cultivation, with mountains of original worldbuilding.
2. The male lead is a senior brother in the new sect, not a background character. There's plenty of history between them, and the Heartless Path won't keep the heroine from falling in love.
3. Remember to put me, Guagua, somewhere in your favorites where I can get some sunlight. Raise me without worry, and I'll bloom all on my own!
Theme: Sword in hand, the whole world is yours.