Reborn as the Villainess in a Cultivation Novel

When she woke up, Tang Li found herself inside a cultivation novel, not as its heroine, blessed with every opportunity and basking in the spotlight, but as the heroine’s foil: a vicious, ruthless villainess.

Yunque had a cowardly, useless scumbag of a father and an abusive stepmother. She endured the humiliation, seized her chance to join an immortal sect, then returned three years later and burned her father’s estate to the ground.

Bullied by her sect and mocked for her humble origins, Yunque met them with a smile while secretly cultivating and growing stronger. Three years later, she broke her senior sister’s legs.

Her senior brother was warm to everyone, and gave Yunque a comfort she had never known. The trouble was, he belonged to the heroine’s harem. Desperate to win him over, Yunque, by then an immortal lord in her own right, became hopelessly lovestruck and was led into one brainless scheme after another. In the end, she died at the heroine’s hands.

System: “You have two choices. First, follow the original plot. The second...”

Tang Li refused without hesitation. “I’ll lie low and cling to life. I wouldn’t follow the plot even if you beat me to death.”

System: “Then take the villainess along on your cultivation journey!”

Tang Li: “!!!”

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Reborn, Yunque finally learned that she was a villain in a novel, a stepping stone meant to make the heroine shine and grow stronger.

What did other people’s opinions matter? This time, she would avenge herself.

But now there was a tiny soul inside her body, one she could crush with a flick of her hand, chattering endlessly in her ear. “Sister, I’ll protect you.”

“Sister, don’t be sad. I’ll stay with you.”

Yunque watched coldly, dismissing it as nonsense, false affection.

Until one day, Heaven and Earth shattered, and the tiny soul became a streak of rainbow light, mending the final fragment of her soul.

P.S. The two are opposite sides of the same soul and will gradually merge. Mild cosmic horror.