A Poor Cultivator: Even a Toad Dreams of Eating a Swan Immortal

[Yuri Novel, Strong Female Lead]

Lai Yuchan is the protagonist, a cultivator who lives by keeping her head down. She is a woman, and her hobby is checking the rankings of all the fairy maidens when everyone else is asleep.

Lai Yuchan: "This is a yuri novel, so why haven't I gotten to sleep with a fairy sister from the start?"

Author: "Take a good look at your character setup: a pockmarked face, an ugly duckling, and the only one in your family. Do you really think that with a setup like that, I should have arranged for a little fairy who loves you wholeheartedly and has maxed out her affection for you from the start to help you? Not a chance. This is a novel about keeping your head down. All I can tell you is that if you hang in there until the end, you'll have everything. Besides, in most fantasy novels, don't the male and female leads get separated for all sorts of reasons? Then, once the male lead gets stronger later on, doesn't he end up with everything? That's the route you're on."

Lai Yuchan: "I don't think this adds up."

Author: "Let me tell you a story. There was a rich old man, already in his eighties or nineties. He suddenly decided he wanted a companion and a mother for his children, so he announced it to the whole city. All sorts of young, beautiful women who supposedly weren't after his money showed up. But the old man didn't have any children. He'd always been child-free, and he'd been single for years. So why did so many beautiful women like him? So... once you've made it later on, you'll have everything."

Lai Yuchan: "I get what you mean. Basically, once I get stronger, I'll be able to use my nourishing ability to get together with the fairy sisters."

Slow burn, 4,000-word chapters. Bookmark first and read with caution. If it's not your thing, stay away. The author may drop it if the numbers are bad (╥ω╥`).