Yan Xingyu, a first-year college student in the modern era, has the misfortune of transmigrating to the Great Yan, a kingdom that never existed in history, where she becomes the Fourth Princess.
Don't people who transmigrate always get a golden finger? Yan Xingyu doesn't get a cheat, but she does become something of an expert on dying. The only problem is, it takes a toll on her.
After all, the first thing she gets upon transmigrating is a deluxe package that includes being stabbed through by an assassin!
Then come all sorts of deaths: choking on water, tripping and falling, inexplicably drowning while walking past a pond, and countless others.
Yan Xingyu's take: Sure, she can come back to life for no apparent reason, but even she can't take this much abuse. What's worse, each time she revives, she's sent back to a point in time she's already lived through! With no other choice, she has to retrace her steps.
On her way to pay her ninth visit to the Empress, Yan Xingyu runs into a strange man. With white hair and plain robes, he looks like an immortal.
She later learns that he is Ran Linming, the Great Yan's Imperial Preceptor. He keeps insisting that the kingdom's declining fortunes are her fault, making Yan Xingyu so angry she refuses to hide her displeasure.
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Yan Xingyu hopes to escape her fate of being killed. When she sees the cinnabar talisman paper Ran Linming gave her turn to ash and blow away in the wind, alarm bells ring in her head!
In the end, she can't escape her fate: for the first time, she dies from a lightning strike.
One more lesson learned by Yan Xingyu.
Thanks to the System's treatment, Yan Xingyu comes back to life yet again. When she wakes, she's told she's been betrothed to the current top scholar.
Great. She can get killed somewhere else.
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But later, as disaster looms and the people rebuild their homes, Yan Xingyu notices that her cheap husband is unusually attentive and protective of her. Then she discovers that he's actually the Imperial Preceptor, who was supposed to be dead!
Of all the ridiculous things that could happen, why did this have to happen to her?
Still, looking at Ran Linming, who's fussing over her and sticking close like a big puppy, Yan Xingyu decides that maybe life like this wouldn't be so bad!
Theme: Take your fate into your own hands
