Wenren Tan was unlucky in her previous life.
And not just in her previous life: she was unlucky in the life before that, too.
It's a long story. She had been living just fine in a parallel world much like our own, eating hotpot and singing, when she suddenly transmigrated to the Great Liang dynasty.
Since she'd already arrived, she decided to make the best of it. She spent fifteen years working hard to learn incense-making in Great Liang, eventually becoming the foremost incense master. Nobles and officials begged at her feet, and sect elders offered her entire mines for a single stick of incense.
And what happened?
Her good-for-nothing younger sister sent her to her death with a cup of poisoned wine.
As Wenren Tan died, she had just one thought: What the hell did I ever do to deserve this from the Wenren family?
When she opened her eyes again, she'd transmigrated once more.
This time, she landed in a place called the “modern world,” as the wealthy heiress who had been switched at birth eighteen years ago. Her adoptive mother had just lost her biological daughter, who had died in a bungee-jumping accident. In a fit of rage, she pushed Wenren Tan into a river, demanding she die in her daughter's place.
As Wenren Tan thrashed about in the water, she could think of only one thing:
Am I cursed to die by drowning?
But she survived, and a useless System appeared in her mind, calling itself the Merit System. Earn merit, exchange it for immortality.
Wenren Tan looked around: skyscrapers, cars, phones, and a crowd of people convinced science could explain everything.
Then she felt in her pocket: a packet of incense powder she'd brought from Great Liang.
She smiled.
“Fine. If I made something of myself in my last life, I can do it again in this one.”
