Reborn: From Ugly Duckling to Campus Belle, One Step at a Time

Many years after graduating from college, Piaopiao has had countless similar dreams:

In the dream,

[Exams are just around the corner, but she has long neglected her studies and is completely unprepared, so she is naturally eliminated from the exam.

Her classmates all leave campus and find decent places to go, while she can only remain at the school, where everything has changed, or accept being exiled by fate to some desolate place. Her life is frozen in place from then on, spent in mediocrity, her heart full of pent-up frustration, until she draws her last breath...]

"It's just a dream. It's fine. I'll be okay once I wake up."

Whenever she dreams this, Piaopiao comforts herself in a state between sleeping and waking.

But this time, she does not wake up. The fantastical doorway to life opens onto a world she never expected...