When the Sword-Wielding Princess Slays the Dragon

After passing through a rift in time and space, Qiao Se, a sword immortal and the senior sister of the Xuanguang Sword Sect, opened her eyes on a continent with scarce spiritual energy and a completely unfamiliar cultivation system. She had become Princess of the Gratilo Empire, first in line to inherit the throne.

The good news: Before going up the mountain to become a sword cultivator, she had also been a princess in the mortal world. She knew how to handle this.

The bad news: This princess was still a terrible student of magic, and at birth she was prophesied to die at the claws of a wicked dragon on the day she came of age. The prophecy was due to come true in exactly three years.

Qiao Se fell silent for a moment, recalling one of the small tests assigned by her sect back when she was cultivating immortality... Wasn't it to fight a dragon one-on-one?

Qiao Se understood. She knew how to handle this. She had done it before.

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Three years ago, before the Female Supporting Character Self-Rescue System had a chance to bind to its Host, an unknown force in the Host's spiritual sea sent it flying a thousand miles away and trapped it inside an ordinary mirror.

Three years later, the System doggedly inched its way toward its Host's live location, thinking in despair: It's too late. In the three years without me, the clueless Host must have been pushed onto the original story's sacrificial female supporting character plotline! Her genius half-sister would steal all the love and attention, her fiance from the neighboring empire would break off their engagement, and her childhood friend, the palace knight, would leave without a word. Then, on the day she came of age, she would die at the claws of a wicked dragon, setting off the love story between the dragon boy and her sister...

The System finally made it to the base of the city tower. It lifted its mirror head and saw that the Host it had failed to bind was standing atop the tower, with a crowd behind her that included the Empire's second princess, the fiance from the neighboring empire, the captain of the palace knights, and an elven mage.

The Host stood tall, the corners of her lips lifted as she slowly... drew the sword at her waist.

"Today, we will slay the wicked dragon together."

Wait, wait! Where had the plot gone in the three years it was away?

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Sword and magic. And by sword, I mean the sword of a sword cultivator.

Fate can be cut apart with a single sword stroke.

Theme: Defeat fate.