After spending a full three hundred years as a lowly drudge in the Underworld's Reincarnation Office, I, Luo Yizhen, came to understand one truth: connections matter more than hard work.
Three hundred years without a single mistake, and I ranked among the top three in the annual evaluations, yet I couldn't even get promoted to an overseer. Pei Yan, the nepotism hire I trained, climbed to the lofty position of Left Judge within a century of joining.
I refused to accept it.
I forged an authorization, cut in line for reincarnation, and ran.
The Underworld was furious and assigned me a “hell-level” life: a gambling-addict father, a frail mother, and a dilapidated home. They wanted to see me rot in the mud, fall from the clouds, suffer through hardship in the mortal world, and curse my fate.
They didn't know that three hundred years of drudgery had already forged me into the hardest piece of iron.
I got into a top university, awakened the memories of my past life, and met a Taoist priest who had been waiting hundreds of years for me.
His name was Shen Duchen. He searched for me in every lifetime. When I was a nine-tailed fox, he took a heavenly lightning strike for me. When I was a princess, he guarded the city gates for me. In this life, he waited for me on Qingcheng Mountain, holding a packet of osmanthus cakes.
Only later did I learn that behind the Underworld's scheme lay five thousand years of jealousy from one woman, and a vast web spanning both the living and the dead.
They all wanted to see me kneel.
Then I'll stay on my feet and punch a hole in the sky.
In the long narration, the heroine grows up, protects the common people, and spreads truth, goodness and beauty.