Story of Minglan: I Took the Fall and Drowned, and Now I’m Cousin Gu’s Younger Cousin

I transmigrated into a book as Gu Tingye’s cousin, a member of the Bai family whose name was recorded in Old Master Bai’s separate branch genealogy. And the doomed servant who takes someone else’s place in the story is actually me?!

An engineering PhD transmigrates as Bai Yun’an, a child Old Master Bai rescued by the water years ago. Though listed in the old master’s separate family genealogy, he willingly becomes Gu Tingye’s personal servant, protecting him at every turn. When it comes time for someone to die in another’s place, Bai Yun’an takes the role himself. Wearing Gu Er’s brocade robe, he lures away the assassins, falls into the water but survives, and is rescued by the Caobang. While recovering, he uses his engineering expertise to improve water transport, relies on his foreknowledge of the plot to protect Gu Er, investigates the Bai family’s old case, and fights the treacherous villains of the marquis’s household! As the story continues, everyone seems to have an inner momentum shaping the choices they make in life, and a fate they cannot escape. But An Ge’s arrival will alter certain turning points and change the destinies of some people…