[Love-Starved Coward vs. Devoted Demon Lord] Please add it to your collection, mwah!
Yun Shu accidentally transmigrated into a book and became a disposable character whose job was to give the male lead a golden finger at the beginning. She turns down the System's offer to bind with her and refuses the male lead's invitation to travel together. She decides to lie flat and be a happy little couch potato.
But perhaps she enjoys herself a bit too much. Because she's so beautiful, the female lead's lovesick lackey captures her and plans to offer her as a spirit pet to the female lead, who is fleeing an arranged marriage, in hopes of winning the beauty's favor.
Having learned her lesson, Yun Shu realizes the cruel truth of the cultivation world and decides to find herself a powerful backer. After carefully considering her options, she sets her sights on the male lead, who is currently growing into his power and possesses the unmatched, arrogant potential to "slay gods when gods stand in his way, kill Buddhas when Buddhas stand in his way, defeat everyone under heaven, and reign supreme at the peak of cultivation."
So she joins the male lead as he flees his pursuers, jumps off a cliff for him, and even... gets disfigured for him? No way! She can't bear to damage her lovely little face, beautiful enough to outshine the fish and the moon and shame the flowers.
Noticing the male lead's gaze growing increasingly complicated, Yun Shu is delighted. She thinks she can finally lie flat and reap the rewards.
Who could have guessed she'd unexpectedly awaken the bloodline of a divine bird, and earn herself a blood feud? And her enemy just happens to be the male lead's greatest backer!
Yun Shu is furious: Mountains crumble, trees run away, and now even the backer she carefully picked looks ready to turn against her.
Isn't this just a nobody turning her life around and making a comeback? This goddess is taking the job!
But what's with you, male lead? We've already drawn a clear line between us!
The male lead's perspective: This world is full of lies, schemes, and slaughter. I struggle desperately against the current, close to breaking, and in the depths of despair I see a blooming sunflower: sincere, radiant, beautiful. From then on, it becomes my only anchor.
Theme: Unspeakable love lies buried in the soil, quietly waiting to sprout
