A Dream of Returning with the Sheng Flute, Ink Ashes by My Pillow

Name: A Dream of Returning with the Sheng Flute, Ink Ashes by My Pillow
Author: Listening to the Rain

明烬枕书一梦笙归

by Listening to the Rain (聽雨瀟瀟)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 288k Words
Genre: Ancient Romance
Subgenre: Ancient-Style Life
Updated: 4mo ago
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Han Zhiling, a history graduate student, was up late revising her thesis when she cursed, “The Ming dynasty fell. What the hell does that have to do with me?” When she woke up, she had become the youngest daughter of the Han family, whose entire household was destined to die according to the history books. Seventeen years remained until Beijing fell and the Chongzhen Emperor hanged himself. Looking at herself swaddled in her crib, Han Zhiling swallowed those words. Fine. Now it really does have something to do with me. Other people transmigrate and start with a broken System, then coast through life with one cheat after another. She transmigrates and starts with nine words: “Han Qing'an, Vice Minister of Revenue, set fire to his home. His entire family died for their country.” Nine words, nine lives. The history books barely even mentioned them. Han Zhiling clenched her chubby little fists. She would have to start from nothing and weave an invisible web against the ticking clock. From the trade routes of Jiangnan to military reports from Liaodong. From factional strife at court to merchant ships in hidden harbors. She personally saved a renowned general who was supposed to be executed by slicing, but she dared not let anyone know. She questioned people from behind a screen, gathered information at Tingfeng Residence, and when everyone thought the Han family was on the verge of collapse, she put a blade to her enemy's throat. But no matter how carefully she planned, someone still died in her place. An old beggar took the five taels of silver she gave him and died beneath the Jinyiwei's blades in her stead. Han Zhiling tucked a bronze seal beneath her pillow and told herself: This is the first time, and the last. The locust trees in the capital sprouted, and the pear trees in Hangzhou bore fruit. The professor who had laughed that “not even a dog would read” her work would never know His student was using this tottering dynasty to hone the sharpest blade of all. The seventeen-year countdown ticked on. Han Zhiling spread out a sheet of paper. In the signature, she wrote the name: Mr. Yin.

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