Everyone in Fucheng knows that the second young lady of the Ruan family has something wrong with her head.
The young ladies may say all sorts of unkind things about her, but the very next day they still call her out to stroll through the gardens and admire the scenery, all warm and friendly. However strange the Second Miss may be, she is beautiful! Handsome! She is considerate and gentle toward the ladies, attentive to every little thing. Though she sometimes makes sarcastic remarks, she always means well for them. She is ten thousand times better than a man.
That was until Second Miss Ruan succeeded in cultivating immortality and opened up a city of her own.
Those same young ladies promptly left their families behind and moved to the new city overnight.
"Women can hold up half the sky. Want to become the head of your own household? Then come on over. This city has everything you want."
The new world was wonderful, and being able to control her own actions was wonderful, too. Even when people kept telling her she was wrong, Ruan Ruofu ignored them all and devoted herself wholeheartedly to freedom.
Seen from close by, she glows like a lotus emerging from green waves. The name Ruofu comes from the Ode to the Goddess of the Luo River. It's incredibly lovely, but her surname is Ruan.
Ruan Ruofu is the heroine of a melodramatic game set in an ancient world of immortal cultivation. Before marriage, it is household intrigue; after marriage, palace intrigue. The heroine does everything except cultivate.
Her original personality was soft and sweet, naive and kind, a pure-hearted girl who would endure a vicious rival and a male lead who mistreated her a thousand times, yet still cherish and adore them. In the ending, she won the rival sister's genuine affection and the male lead's exclusive love.
But as the market changed, this kind of heroine fell out of favor. The developers tweaked her, making her more clever. Now she could uncover a rival's schemes before they had a chance to bully or frame her, then devise a counterattack. Quick-witted and resourceful, she always attracted plenty of men and relied on their help to dominate the households of every size throughout the capital, finally achieving a couple's ending with the male lead.
A few years later, with some experience under their belts, the designers kept a close eye on the market. She gained a quest system, and her personality changed: kind at first, then immediately awakened and turned dark after being framed, with her intelligence soaring. Rival or male lead, she would slap them all in the face, becoming a revenge heroine who answered every act of evil with even greater evil.
Then the market changed again and again. The System became a leveling system, and her personality profile was once more filled in: a powerful female lead with a business-minded streak, stronger than anyone who challenged her, building her own business empire and remaining unmoved despite countless charming men, ultimately helping the male lead she supported become an immortal sovereign of his own sect.
Then one day, someone unlocked the achievement for seizing the throne in the mortal realm and becoming an empress. It deeply shook the designer. She agonized over all sorts of tags and options for three days, choosing and deleting, deleting and adding. In the end, the computer gave a sharp crackle and broke down.
When Ruan Ruofu woke up again, she discovered that she had become a real person, in the literal sense. There were no more players, designers, or code. She was free!
She had just one thought: Mom! You forgot to change my name again!
P.S. 1. The heroine will not become empress, because she really does have something wrong with her head. There were too many tags before, and when the game updated, it crashed and all the data got scrambled, tags included. So bits of every personality trait may surface from time to time.
2. There are many male supporting characters, but the heroine will not have proper romantic relationships with them. The male lead is the one who persists, accommodates her, and is willing to follow her to the end.
3. The cultivation world is vast and rich, with countless cities large and small. There are no plots about killing the heroine for being unrighteous.
4. The heroine's only unchanging goals are cultivation and making money.
5. There are no major schemes. This is a lighthearted story.
6. Since this is a cultivation world, when a woman in the city conceives a child, she carries it for a month. Once the pregnancy is discovered, magic and enchanted tools, including a doctor, are used to transfer the child into a man's belly so he can give birth.
Theme: I love every genre, so I'll put them all together.
