Reborn Villain Just Wants to Lay Low

After dying and reincarnating, Yan Guitu makes a horrifying discovery—he's nothing more than cannon fodder in a cultivation novel, destined to be the villainous master who torments the protagonist before getting brutally destroyed. Desperate to avoid his grim fate, he refuses to take the fated hero as his disciple and instead gathers three seemingly harmless apprentices. There's just one problem: his eldest disciple is the sworn brother of the hero's mortal enemy, his second is the hero's spurned ex-fiancée, and his adorable youngest? He's the future ultimate villain who'll battle the protagon…