Daily Life as a Worker at Embroidered Gold Tower [Where Winds Meet]

Cui Qi woke up to discover that she had transmigrated into the world of the game Where Winds Meet. The System told her that the only way home was to unlock 100% of the game's map.

Stay away from the main plot. Stay away from the Embroidered Gold Tower. I'll go home as soon as I finish grinding out the map!

That was what Cui Qi originally thought.

Until several masked men in black claimed to be her subordinates and anxiously asked her:

"Boss, the Director's plan to attack Bu Xian Xian is just around the corner. If we don't get ready now, it'll be too late!"

Cui Qi: ...?

Wait, what?

She could accept transmigrating. She could even accept not having an invincible golden finger.

But Cui Qi, who thought she was pretty adaptable, found it utterly horrifying to discover that she'd taken over the body of a low-ranking leader in the Embroidered Gold Tower, a group of pure villains whose evil deeds in the game ranged from burning down the protagonist's hometown to plucking a feather from every goose they passed.

Under the System's threat that she must not reveal her identity, Cui Qi had no choice but to grit her teeth and play the villainous leader. When her subordinates asked how preparations for the attack on Bu Xian Xian were progressing, she used every trick in the book to bluff them.

"We'll need a lot of medicine for the attack on Bu Xian Xian. Go collect 500 Tang Palace Feather Robes!"

"Dream Puppets? Destroying the Otherworldly Lodge? Have you finished collecting the fire oil? How can you get distracted over a trivial matter like that when we have a grand plan to carry out!"

She raced all over to collect items and unlock the map, and wore herself out talking her subordinates into staying away from Bu Xian Xian so she could keep her life.

She quietly gathered supplies, stayed in the rear as the support team helping the group retreat on the day Bu Xian Xian was set on fire, and remained completely outside the main plot.

Cui Qi's plan worked perfectly, if only she hadn't run into Jiang Xun in the bamboo forest.

Content warning: This is not a conventional happy ending. The author is a newcomer, and the story is full of melodrama. Please forgive any shortcomings in the writing, but I won't abandon the novel.

Theme: Home is a harbor for the soul.