The Trash Daughter's Ascension

Mu Yan was a thief. Then she died. When she wakes in an unfamiliar cultivation world, she finds herself in the body of a young woman who shares her name—and a reputation she definitely didn't earn. Useless. Weak. The disappointing daughter of two powerful cultivators who vanished years ago. The clan calls her trash. Mu Yan has survived worse. Armed with the instincts of a thief, a suspiciously ancient voice living inside her soul, and an increasingly troublesome talking bird with no memory of what he actually is, Mu Yan begins learning the rules of her new world: cultivation, magic, formations, artifacts, and all the complicated ways people use power. But Mu Yan has never been particularly good at accepting rules just because someone else wrote them. What begins as a fight to survive soon becomes something much larger. A stolen ledger points toward an attack that should never have been possible. A mysterious token leads to secrets left behind by her missing parents. And the farther Mu Yan follows those clues, the more she finds buried beneath the history of the world itself—lost memories, ancient powers, forgotten passages between Realms, and people willing to kill to keep certain truths hidden. At the center of it all is one question she cannot leave alone: Who was Mu Yan before she woke up? Finding the answer will take her far beyond the small clan where her second life began, into mysteries surrounding ancient wars, fractured souls, Divine Beasts, and powers that have spent generations deciding which truths should survive. Mu Yan doesn't intend to become a chosen one. She doesn't even intend to become the strongest. She just wants the truth. Unfortunately, the truth has a lot of locks. And Mu Yan has always been very good at breaking into places she isn't supposed to be.