Her Name Was Never in the Story by Elodie Marlowe

Luo Yiran remembers exactly how she is supposed to die. She read it in a novel. A forgotten side character. A ruined dantian. A meaningless death in the forest while the real heroes continued their story. Then Yiran wakes up inside that character’s body—before any of it has happened. Her first goal is simple: stay alive. Instead of joining the prestigious sect that abandoned the original Luo Yiran to her fate, she chooses Broken Moon Sect, a nearly bankrupt collection of misfits everyone else considers a joke. It may be the best decision she ever makes. Because Yiran’s supposedly useless body isn’t broken. It’s sealed. As she begins breaking those seals, surviving secret realms, uncovering forgotten inheritances, and protecting the strange disciples who are slowly becoming her family, Yiran realizes something far more unsettling: The story she remembers is wrong. Events are changing. People who should have died are surviving. Artifacts are appearing where they shouldn’t. And an ancient record that once contained no trace of Luo Yiran suddenly writes her name onto its own pages. She was never supposed to matter. Now the world itself has begun to notice her. Her Name Was Never in the Story is the first book in Broken Moon Ascendant, a female-led cultivation progression fantasy featuring xianxia-inspired cultivation, a clever heroine, sect-building, found family, secret realms, humor, ancient mysteries, steady power progression, and a protagonist determined to survive a story that never made room for her.