Twenty years studying opera, now taking the stage to slay ghosts and gods.
Li Xin, an inheritor of traditional opera, unexpectedly finds herself transported to a mysterious and unfathomable otherworld. The moment she arrives, she is mistaken for a bride sent in another woman's place and offered as a sacrifice to the mountain god.
The mountain god, worshipped by the people as a deity, turns out to be a man-eating rat. Li Xin opens the box she carries with her.
She dons Zhong Kui's helmet and a red python robe, then paints her face red and black. Hmph! Mountain god, I've come to slay you!
She soon learns that this world has none of the myths from her original world. Here, man-eating demons roam unchecked...
So she performs Sun Wukong, and with a hammer blow heavy as ten thousand jun, brings peace to the heavens.
She plays Zhong Kui, sweeping away demons and monsters, punishing evil and upholding good.
Like Judge Bao, she dispels injustice; like Guan Yu, she embodies loyalty and honor.
Some say she's just an actor. How dare she pretend to be a god?
Li Xin scoffs. Keep pretending, and one day you become a god.
Dressed in a purple python robe and wielding the Heaven-Reliant Sword, she laughs furiously in Cao Cao's likeness and declares:
“Fate is in my hands. What can Heaven do to me?”
“If Heaven abandons me, then Heaven can be defied; if the world forsakes me, then the world shall be destroyed!”
“I am Li Xin. I refuse to accept my fate, and I will walk my own path!”
The protagonist can be rather unhinged at times. She keeps her head down for about the first three chapters, then lets loose.
