Since I’ve Become Daiyu, What’s Wrong with Changing My Fate?

Lin Shuang, a PhD from Peking University, wakes up in Lin Daiyu’s body on the day she is coughing up blood and hovering at death’s door. The shackles of Heaven’s Will are tightening around her.

The “repay the tears” script has already begun: enter the Jia household, meet Baoyu, weep until her tears run dry, then cough up blood and die at seventeen during the Flower Festival.

Lin Shuang reaches out and gives a fierce tug. The chains binding her Crimson Pearl spirit crack open. She looks up and asks, “Heaven’s Will, did you ever ask whether I was willing to repay this debt?”

The Crimson Pearl spirit awakens, giving her the power to see everyone’s fate. A plague ship, household intrigues, a salt-tax case, a night of palace upheaval: she charges head-on into every deadly trap, and each time she survives, her spirit grows stronger. From a lonely girl dependent on others to the hidden hand controlling the imperial court, she intends to change more than her own fate. She will also defy the doomed ending awaiting the century-old Jia household.

Heaven’s Will says the Crimson Pearl must repay her tears. She replies, “I decide my own fate.”