Xie Ning was born into a family of doctors. Gifted with the talent of a miracle healer, she was nevertheless frail from birth and suffered from a heart condition. She died of illness at sixteen.
She made a deal with Hei Wuchang, who had come to collect her soul, trading for three more years of life. She awoke before being buried in her ancestral home.
This was her first death.
After she awoke, her relatives were falsely accused of being quack doctors and executed. The shock triggered her heart condition, and she died.
Hei Wuchang told her their deal wasn't over, and she returned to the mortal world.
This was her second death.
And so came the third, the fourth... A hundred deaths, and one lifetime.
She gave everything she had for those three years, made a name for herself throughout the land, and returned to the capital seeking only the truth.
But the person who told her the truth said gently:
I've been waiting for you to discover it since before you were born.
(The full manuscript is complete. This novel is finished.)
