I Never Expected the Heartthrob Was Me

Office worker Gu Lan transmigrates into a cultivation novel—not as the beloved heroine, but as a disposable side character destined for collateral damage. The original plot? Heroine Ling Yao charms every genius cultivator into obsessive madness, triggering a realm-wide catastrophe. Gu Lan's survival plan: cultivate hard, grab her ragtag sect siblings, and run before the chaos hits. But fate has other plans. The "universally adored" halo meant for the heroine has mysteriously latched onto her instead. Now the Xuantian Sword Sect's cold genius gazes at her with burning devotion, rival sect maste…