The System Says My Daughter Is a Cannon Fodder in a Book

[No Romance] [Mother-Daughter Bond] [Mutual Healing] [Slow Pace, Light Ensemble Cast]

Three years after her daughter disappeared, Jiang Yue has long been an empty shell, alive in name only.

Then one day, a mechanical voice tells her: Your daughter has been swept into a novel's world. If you want to bring her home, you must live on as the "original character."

When she opens her eyes again, she has become the wife of a convicted official, strangled to death on the road to exile.

Her husband is badly injured, his concubine is pregnant, and the road ahead is a dead end.

But she has a daughter to save.

From a lone girl in the wilderness to a wealthy merchant in Zhaojing, she builds one Wangxiang Tower after another, searching every corner of the world for outsiders abducted by the "System."

She rescues a young woman trapped in a living hell and brings home the remains of someone who died far from home, yet she can do nothing for her own daughter, Jiang Fei.

The girl she once cherished above all else has been tortured in the prince's manor for five years and borne three children. The light in her eyes has long since gone out.

Jiang Fei's progress bar for returning home is forever stuck at 99%.

Until Jiang Yue smashes open the gates of the prince's manor and sees her daughter lift her face and ask in a hoarse voice, "Mom, what took you so long?"

This time, Mom won't make you wait any longer.

The early story follows her struggle to survive in exile and escape the place of banishment, then assume a new identity and go into business. In the middle and later stages, mother and daughter reunite, heal each other, and return to the modern world.

This is about more than a mother searching for her daughter.

It's about a group of people trapped by a System, helping one another along the road home.