A Survival Pact from Scratch

Name: A Survival Pact from Scratch
Author: A Smile, a Fleeting Life

从零开始的生存约法

by A Smile, a Fleeting Life (一笑纤生)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 352k Words
Genre: Mystery
Subgenre: Mystery High-Concept
Updated: 4mo ago
English: Request a translation

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Synopsis

(Strong female lead | Mystery | Puzzle-solving | Political intrigue | Ensemble cast)

[Multiple couples + Chilling on closer inspection + Mass transmigration + Everyday life in ancient times + Resistance against tyranny]

[The one and only female lead: cool and badass]

(∗ᵒ̶̶̷̀ω˂̶́∗)੭₎₎̊₊♡ Hi there~

[May this book offer a light to those who feel lost.]

ଘ(੭ˊᵕˋ)੭* ੈ✩

A top medical graduate student gets hit to death with a brick by an unemployed drifter after arranging her grandmother’s funeral?!

P.S. Getting bricked to death would be bad enough, but the old hag even turned me into someone halfway between a man and a woman?!

(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

Is this the distortion of human nature or the collapse of morality?!

After Shen Weiyi dies, she finds herself in a crowded classroom, where the teachers standing at the lectern are none other than various “underworld messengers” dressed in Sun Yat-sen suits?!

What are the Black and White Impermanence?

And where did the Ox-Head and Horse-Face come from?

Is this Rule Horror, or a set of three rules?

As Shen Weiyi learns more about this world, she seems to understand a few things… things that don’t quite meet her expectations.

Hundreds of modern-day dead souls transmigrate together to ancient times. They claim to be cultivating virtue, but in truth, they must complete so-called “wish-fulfillment tasks.”

They take root among the common people and move through the halls of power, earning the people’s reverence as “enlightened monks.”

Some diligently do good deeds and accumulate merit, hoping to reincarnate;

Some only want a peaceful life, following the rules as officials who serve the people;

And others harbor ulterior motives, making their own schemes amid the chaos.

Shen Weiyi moves among the people, investigating cold cases, solving mysteries, and exposing harsh policies. She gradually sees through the gray skies to the living being flayed and the dead stripped to the bone. Leading a group of transmigrators, she resists tyranny and defies fate.

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