邪修

What does 邪修 mean?

In cultivation novels, a 邪修 is the one who skips the slow righteous path and levels up through forbidden shortcuts. Online the word kept that flavour and dropped the menace: it now describes doing an ordinary task in a strange, low-effort way that nevertheless works. 邪修做饭 is hack cooking, the cake baked in a rice cooker being the canonical example; 邪修学习 and 邪修减肥 cover studying and dieting; and the slogan 万物皆可邪修 insists that anything at all can be done the 邪修 way. The tone is admiring and amused rather than disapproving, and nothing genuinely harmful is implied. English speakers would file it under life hack or cheat code.

Where does 邪修 come from?

The word is borrowed from online fantasy and cultivation fiction, where 邪修 take dark shortcuts to level up faster. It landed on short-video platforms in mid-2025: the Douyin hashtag #邪修做饭# ran into the hundreds of millions of views, and the joke was still going strong in 2026.

How to use 邪修

• 用电饭煲做蛋糕，这就是邪修做饭。
  Yòng diànfànbāo zuò dàngāo, zhè jiù shì xiéxiū zuò fàn.
  Baking a cake in a rice cooker: that's hack-mode cooking.
• 万物皆可邪修，背单词也不例外。
  Wànwù jiē kě xiéxiū, bèi dāncí yě bú lìwài.
  Anything can be hacked, and memorising vocabulary is no exception.