“If tragedy is our fate, I would rather never have met you.”
“But if meeting you is inevitable, then I would rather rewrite the tragedy.”
· Xie Qingyan × Ma Wencai: A forbidden alliance between two who can see the future, from mutual suspicion to entrusting each other with their lives
· Zhu Yingtai × Liang Shanbo: A fresh retelling of a classic tragedy, where hope blooms in the depths of despair
· An ensemble of women: Xie Qingyan and Zhu Yingtai save each other, while the women’s academy passes a glimmer of light from one generation to the next
· Defying fate: A tragic struggle between individual will and the tides of history
She knows how everyone dies, including herself.
At her coming-of-age ceremony, Xie Qingyan faints and dreams of the entire tale: Zhu Yingtai’s blood splattered across a stone stele, and Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai transforming into butterflies.
When she wakes, her mind is filled with knowledge that should not exist: methods for growing potatoes, blueprints for the spinning jenny, the structure of scales on butterfly wings… and a cold countdown: eighty-nine days until the butterfly transformation.
To rewrite this tragedy ordained by fate, she disguises herself as a man and enters Nishan Academy. There, to her shock, she discovers that Ma Wencai, who is supposed to force Zhu Yingtai into marriage, is counting down the very same days.
“You can’t save everyone,” Ma Wencai warns her in a moonlit pavilion. “Especially not the pageboy Sijiu.”
As prophetic dreams become reality and one who knows the future encounters another, an ultimate battle against fate begins. Xie Qingyan must use her beyond-her-time wisdom to weave a web of schemes amid the whirlpool of aristocratic politics: improve agriculture to win the emperor’s trust, establish a school for girls to kindle a spark of hope, and stage a fake death by butterfly transformation that deceives the world on the wedding day.
But fate’s backlash is quietly closing in. Every intervention comes at a terrible cost.
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