She should have been a stillborn child lost in the womb of an older mother in the modern age.
Yet a fragment of Yang Yu’s soul unexpectedly came to rest in the ancient land of Huayang, Bashu, in another world.
Born into a poor family of historical clerks, she had a father who held a lowly post in the History Office,
earning a meager salary and facing years of pressure and false accusations from his superiors.
Her mother worked the fields and raised silkworms, laboring day and night through a life of hardship.
At home, a spiteful step-grandmother schemed against them and made their lives miserable.
Outside, cold-eyed neighbors and ruthless officials closed in at every turn.
The whole family was mired in hardship, enduring one humiliation after another.
Clear-minded from birth, she saw through the warmth and cruelty of human nature.
Rooted in the land of Huayang, she witnessed its customs, geography, and changing fortunes over the years.
From infancy, she kept her talents hidden and quietly made plans,
helping her father break free of his predicament and rise through the ranks, all the way to the top.
The world sees her only as an extraordinary girl from a poor family, one who records history and uncovers the truths of the ages.
But no one knows that
this is not her first time coming into the world.
This life is only the beginning. Through the cycles of rebirth yet to come,
she will cross the ages and travel between past and present,
witnessing the rise and fall of dynasties and bearing eternal witness to the history lost to time.
