The Ten Thousand Ways to Hug the Female Protagonist’s Thigh - Chapter 1.1

At three in the morning, Wen Shu finally tossed her phone aside and effortlessly rubbed her sore eyes. Her head felt heavy and foggy. The novel she had been reading was simply too captivating, and she couldn’t help but stay up until the early hours. She wouldn’t have stopped if not for the strain in her eyes.

Wen Shu was a sophomore in college. Before university, her favorite pastime was learning calligraphy, painting, and traditional Chinese studies from her family, who worked in the arts. After starting college, a classmate recommended an app called Qidian, and since then, aside from her daily practice of traditional Chinese painting, she had found a new hobby—reading novels.

Wen Shu enjoyed reading fantasy and cultivation novels. At first, she only read male-oriented stories, but later, she delved into female-oriented ones. Just yesterday, she finished a novel about a female protagonist who transmigrated into a book’s world. The story followed the protagonist as she used her knowledge of the plot to outmaneuver the original heroine, claiming her opportunities and overcoming every challenge to reach the pinnacle of life.

While the story was thrilling, Wen Shu couldn’t fully agree with the protagonist’s actions. With her intelligence and knowledge of the plot, the protagonist could have achieved greatness without taking what belonged to others. If it were Wen Shu, she would never take something that wasn’t hers, especially without reason.

That said, if given the choice, Wen Shu would never want to transmigrate into such a world. A cultivation world without phones or the internet? As someone accustomed to modern life, she couldn’t imagine living in such a primitive way.

During evening self-study, Wen Shu noticed her roommate, who usually scoffed at web novels, secretly reading one on her phone. Upon asking, she learned that the novel was written by a friend of her roommate. The friend claimed the protagonist was focused solely on cultivation, with no romantic entanglements, a strong moral compass, and high intelligence. This was precisely the type of novel Wen Shu had been looking for!

She quickly asked for the novel’s name, logged into the Qidian app, and downloaded all available chapters. The novel Endless Path of Immortality was over a million words long.

In the first few chapters, the protagonist was born into a newly established family in a remote country on the Eastern Continent of the Tianyuan Realm. Her parents, ordinary martial artists without cultivation talent, managed mundane businesses for the family. Per the usual trope, the protagonist initially had a mediocre four-element spiritual root, barely better than a five-element one. Growing up, she faced pity and disdain from her neighbors due to her parents’ lack of cultivation talent.

However, her strong will and a stroke of luck let her cleanse three pseudo-spiritual roots, revealing her true talent—a fire-element heavenly spiritual root. Her golden finger was a legacy left by a top-tier cultivator, including a cultivation manual and a spiritual spring space.

This was a classic underdog-to-overachiever story. The author’s writing was excellent, making even overused tropes enjoyable. The characters were intelligent and realistic; even the arrogant young masters knew when to back down after encountering someone stronger, avoiding unnecessary trouble for their families.