Ye Manfu is an ordinary person. She thought she was living in an ordinary world.
Aside from the fact that her soul had transmigrated after death into a world of cultivation, everything was so ordinary and familiar: the friendly fellow disciples who slacked off with her during their lessons, and the greedy, sly old guard who often turned a blind eye to her antics.
And of course, there was him, the man Ye Manfu loved.
He was Jieshan's first senior brother, the foremost cultivator of the sect, radiant as moonlight, and the heaven-blessed prodigy Ye Manfu secretly admired.
At the same time, he was...
"What? You're saying this world is a no-romance cultivation novel with a male lead, he's the protagonist, and my mission is to steal his opportunities and take his place at the end of the story?"
After meeting her System, the ordinary Ye Manfu's ordinary life came to an end. What awaited her was...
"Wait, so I'm actually following the satisfying power fantasy plot where I crush Jieshan, cultivate to immortality, marry my senior brother, and reach the peak of life?"
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Ever since birth, Zhang Xianxian had been told, "You were born to attain the Great Dao." But only he knew the terrifying secret of this world.
Cultivation had never really been cultivation. Attaining immortality and the Great Dao was nothing but a lie.
And the most terrifying thing about this world was that even after he had destroyed it twice, everything still started all over again.
But this time...
"Senior Brother, I'm your junior sister. Master just took me on as a disciple. My name is Ye Manfu."
"Senior Brother, sorry, but I'll gladly take this treasure. You won't be angry, will you?"
"Senior Brother, Senior Brother..."
"Senior Brother, you're wrong. No one in this world should be born just to sacrifice themselves for someone else. If that's the case, then the world is the one that's wrong."
He smiled and agreed, but in the middle of the night, he secretly slipped into her room.
She was the only variable in this world's cycle of reincarnation. Should he simply kill her?
His hand hovered over her neck again and again, but he never brought it down.
He bent over and whispered into her ear with an almost pathological tenderness:
"Fellow Daoist Ye, may we be traveling the same path."
Reading Guide:
1. An ordinary, sunny heroine who grows over time vs. a seemingly saintly, secretly deranged ghost of a male lead. The heroine is quite normal. The male lead... can only be described as a person.
2. Not a traditional cultivation novel. Most of the content is original worldbuilding, with Chinese-style Lovecraftian elements and some mild horror.
3. The male lead's perspective reads like an old-fashioned tragic romance, while the heroine's perspective is a horror survival story. One novel, two different experiences, to suit different tastes.
4. The heroine has a crush on the male lead from the start, but it's essentially admiration for someone she looks up to. She has idealized him, but that illusion will shatter later. The male lead falls first in the story.
5. Both are physically and emotionally devoted only to each other. Plot-focused.
6. Both prioritize responsibility over romance, though in certain circumstances the male lead may treat them as equal or put romance first.
Theme: Your fate is in your own hands.
