A Transmigrator’s Guide to Surviving Graduate School as the Book’s Villainess

Modern-day graduate school exam candidate Lin Yanqiu dies suddenly after staying up all night drilling past exam questions, then wakes up as a villainess with the same name in a book. She is obsessed with the heir to the marquis’s estate, Shen Jinghan, plots against his beloved, and ultimately gets abandoned by her family and killed by a warlord. From the start, she is caught in the act of plotting against his beloved, with Shen Jinghan’s sword at her throat. To survive, Lin Yanqiu suppresses her panic and uses the logical thinking she developed while preparing for her exams to analyze the situation and temporarily escape. But one crisis follows another: her family forces her to keep competing for favor, Shen Jinghan sees her as a substitute for his beloved, and the warlords covet the marquis’s estate and have their eyes on her as a “pawn.” Lin Yanqiu begins fighting for her life. She uses the focus she honed while studying to assess the situation and unravel the traps of household intrigue, while adapting her persona to deal with each side: she humors her family, keeps Shen Jinghan at a distance, and conceals her sharp edge from the warlords. As the shackles of being a substitute gradually loosen, the brooding hero falls for her in earnest. But all she wants is to survive first and worry about the rest later!