I Met the Villain and Made Him Mine [Book Transmigration]

Female lead: snarky science-minded cultivator x male lead: beautiful, tragic, obsessive madman

[Female Lead's Side]

Xi Jiangyue, an author, didn't realize just how important a golden finger was until she transmigrated into her own book.

If only she'd known, she would have given herself a Mary Sue with rainbow hair, pie-chart eyes, the power to turn stones into gold, and tears that became pearls!

Sure, transmigrating bodily was the most dangerous kind of transmigration, and she had neither a System nor a wise old mentor living in her mind. But at least she'd landed in the cultivation novel she'd written herself.

With her knowledge of the setting and plot, what secret techniques could she not get her hands on? What ancient ruins could she not explore?

But!

Getting close to the main cast would throw the main plot into chaos?

Even offhandedly complaining about Heaven's Will would get her chased by lightning?

To keep herself alive, she could only take things slow and cultivate step by step.

She studied cultivation techniques from dawn till dusk and painstakingly crafted magical artifacts by lamplight.

She drew energy-storage circuit diagrams on talismans and built Faraday cages to fend off tribulation lightning...

Her cultivation life, starting from scratch, begins now!

Watch her clear the game with her life intact!

*

This is absurd. Why didn't I return to the real world after I died? Why did I reincarnate as a jade pendant instead?

Does that mean I've become the golden finger for the cultivation novel's overpowered male lead, the old granny who lives in his pocket?

Oh, well. If I'm going to do a job, I might as well love it.

"Young man, I can see you have the makings of a heavenly talent. Want to cultivate immortality?"

[Male Lead's Side]

He had nearly forgotten his own name, until the day he picked up a jade pendant.

He dreamed in his sleep and met a goddess.

The goddess entered his dreams and taught him the Dao.

She taught him how to breathe and guide his qi, and how to focus his meditation.

From then on, he completed his foundation in a hundred days and stepped onto the path of cultivation.

He thought he would be with the goddess forever, until he attained the Great Dao and ascended in broad daylight.

But after that battle, the goddess suddenly vanished, as if she had never existed.

He crossed mountains and rivers, deserts and wastelands, yet could find no trace of her.

The goddess loved all people, but all people did was harm the innocent and scheme against one another in secret.

How could a world like this deserve her?

If the goddess would not kill, then he would!

Across the eight directions of the cosmos, both righteous and demonic cultivators feared him for leaving corpses in his wake. But he said he killed to stop killing!

He would wipe out every vile creature in the world and sweep away all those who broke the law and followed heresy!

Then, perhaps, he could see you again.

*

After waiting so long, I finally found you, only to realize:

Once, I looked up to you and thought, "The goddess loves all, but people fight among themselves."

Now, looking at you, I see that "Though mortal in body, you stand shoulder to shoulder with the gods."

This book can be summed up as: "After I Transmigrated Bodily into a Book and Died to Turn a Villain's Fate Around, Did I Reincarnate as the Golden Finger of the Cultivation Novel's Male Lead?"

[Reading Guide]

1. Happy ending, one-on-one romance, sweet and angsty, slow burn and melodramatic. Not a wish-fulfillment novel! I don't write full-time, but I'll do my best to finish it, whether or not it makes the rankings or goes premium.

2. An alternate-world setting with lots of original worldbuilding, and a large ensemble cast. The female lead transmigrates twice: first bodily into a book, then her soul into an object.

3. Readers who enjoy traditional cultivation progression stories can start with Volume Two.

4. Please don't offer writing advice. Feel free to criticize the characters, but don't criticize the author! (Bows repeatedly)

[Cultivation Realms]

Xuanmen: Qi Refining -> Foundation Establishment -> Core Formation -> Nascent Soul -> Deity Transformation -> Void Refinement -> Body Integration -> Mahayana -> Tribulation Transcendence

[Content Warning]

The original novel's protagonist is male, but he has no romantic entanglement whatsoever with this book's leads.

Theme: People are born good by nature.