Su Wanwan took a course on appreciating popular literature of ancient times, and, desperate to scrape together enough credits, forced herself to read the assigned books through tears. When she got to the part where Du Shiniang pretended to give herself to the scholar Li Jia while carrying a fortune, only for Li Jia to sell her to a scheming libertine for a thousand taels, driving her to leap into the river with her treasure chest, her anger shot through the roof. She wanted nothing more than to punch that scumbag.
When she “woke up,” she found herself in the middle of the scene. The beautiful Du Shiniang from the book was sitting on a boat, clutching a gold-inlaid chest and tossing the jade ornaments inside into the river as if they were worthless. Su Wanwan shuddered, her feet moving faster than her brain. She rushed over and clung to the beauty’s leg, tears streaming down her face.
“Please, sister, don’t throw them away! They’re our livelihood! If you really want to throw something away, let me throw that scumbag into the river for you!”
Save Shiniang, fight the scumbags; promote new ideas and awaken people.
With Su Wanwan’s intervention, Du Shiniang not only escaped her fate of dying for love, but also became a renowned businesswoman in the Jiangnan region. With her help, many of her former sisters from the brothels left that life behind and began thriving anew.
Armed with a System, Su Wanwan keeps transmigrating into one work after another through her dreams. Wang Jiaoluan, Cui Yingying, Huo Xiaoyu, the Rakshasi, and all the bright, spirited young women in the Jia household break free from their predetermined fates and set out on exciting lives of their own.
At the end-of-term assessment, Su Wanwan scraped together enough credits with her final paper, “On the Plight of Women in Popular Literature of Ancient Times and Ways to Escape It.” But even more meaningful than the credits was the package she received from the sisters who were supposed to be nothing but fictional characters...
“I thought all I’d done was pointless work in a dream, something to console myself with. I never expected that, somewhere in the vastness of time and space, their fates would truly change.”
[Notes:
1. Inspired by works like Du Shiniang Sinks Her Treasure Chest in Anger.
2. Quick transmigration System, a no-brainer wish-fulfillment story. The protagonist has no romantic pairing. Since characters in the original works have romantic entanglements, this is tagged as romance.
3. The works currently planned are Du Shiniang Sinks Her Treasure Chest in Anger, Wang Jiaoluan’s Century of Grief, The Story of Yingying, The Story of Huo Xiaoyu, Dream of the Red Chamber, and Journey to the West (Princess Iron Fan arc). Feel free to suggest other works you’re interested in!]
Theme: Sisters, stand up!