Reborn as Daiyu

Reborn as Daiyu tells the extraordinary story of Lin Daiyu and Zhang Hongyu.

After being reborn, Lin Daiyu meets, understands, and falls in love with Zhang Hongyu, but their relationship faces one trial after another. Their love is opposed by everyone in the Jia household and subjected to all kinds of slander and sabotage from the outside world. Yet the two remain true to each other.

Zhang Hongyu places first in the imperial examinations and takes up a post in Yangzhou, where he and his wife face many challenges together. Later, he is transferred to the Liangguang region. There, he oversees the training of the navy, strengthens coastal defenses, builds artillery forts, and repels foreign invaders. Throughout it all, Lin Daiyu gives him her full support.

They go among the people to ease their hardships, develop agriculture and medicine, build waterworks, teach cultivation methods, and fund the construction of a medical bureau out of their own pockets. After forty years in office in Guangdong, Zhang Hongyu retires. All their children place first in the imperial examinations and continue serving the people. The couple withdraw to Mount Lingshan in Guangxi to practice the Way, and eventually ascend to immortality. Their deeds are celebrated by the people and become a tale for the ages.