after contracting a fishpond, i fished up the venerable fish ancestor

Discovering she had transmigrated into a cannon fodder character in a popular female-oriented cultivation novel, Ning Youli, armed with a farming system, fled overnight to the one place in the novel that managed to survive until the end: Qingyun Sect. …And then contracted a fishpond.

She vowed: She would live in seclusion, be self-sufficient, and live a life of love & peace.
Her system came with a spiritual spring, claiming she could fish out daily necessities from it to earn a living.

Little did she expect that this spring was connected to the waters of various trial secret realms. With a single cast of the net, she hauled out rare celestial treasures ×N, miraculous spirit pills ×N, rare exotic beasts ×N…

Ning Youli decided to maintain her low profile while running a side business. On the surface, she was a gentle and obedient owner of a fishpond, but in reality, she was constantly teetering between comfort and danger.

On the day the novel’s male lead entered the sect, Ning Youli fished out a severely injured, fiery red koi. Its entire body, from head to tail, was a treasure trove, an exceedingly rare and peerless find.

Faced with this gloomy, unhappy big fish, she meticulously tended to its wounds, tried to cheer it up, pampered it, feeding it eight times a day and spending money like water.

However, just as the big fish fully recovered and she was ready to “make full use of it,” she could only watch in disbelief as it transformed into a human!

A tall, slender figure slowly walked towards her, his robes burning like raging flames, truly a…
…daily necessity?

Wait a minute! Isn’t this the Demon Lord who fought the male lead to the point of obliterating the sun and moon at the end of the novel!?

She watched as the handsome young man flashed a fake smile: “Miss, I have no way to repay this life-saving grace of yours, except for…”

Ning Youli: Awkward. Is it too late for her to play innocent now?

Later—

Gazing at the peaceful sky, Ning Youli sighed. Having a Fish Ancestor acting as her bodyguard was good, but…

“Does my wife have something on her mind?”

“Shouldn’t you be out fighting…? Staying by my side every day, I’m afraid I won’t be able to afford to keep you anymore.”

Su Yuchuan, who had long since taken dragon form, lowered his gaze to his colossal body. Carefully retracting his claws, he removed a single dragon scale and spoke with utmost sincerity, “My wife, that wasn’t what you said before. Besides, isn’t this the living expenses my wife mentioned?”

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[Reading Guide]

1V1, low-key survivalist female lead raises the villainous big fish as a mascot.

Early stages focus on building the fishpond and developing the plot, a non-traditional farming game.

The text contains a great deal of fiction and numerous personal settings.