After Three Rounds of Struggling at the Aristocratic Academy

[Content warning: Includes coercive pursuit and is not a strong female lead story]

Jian Nian transmigrates into a Korean revenge manga about teenagers. She cannot hear or speak Korean. The country is ruled by chaebols, and the gap between rich and poor is enormous. The elite school the original character attends is even worse. In such a high-pressure environment, she can barely meet a normal person.

What happens in the manga has nothing to do with Jian Nian. She studies hard and works part-time like crazy just to save enough money to escape to Country C in the manga's world.

One day, however, Jian Nian saves a drowning boy, Jiang Yankai. She never expected that a moment of kindness would bring her so much trouble. She dies.

The second loop begins. It's the same little shop, the same girl, but she has changed.

Jian Nian resolves to avoid the ending she met in her previous life. She avoids every chance of contact with Jiang Yankai and speeds up her plans to leave Country K. But she still can't escape the manga's plot. She becomes the sole witness to a murder.

There is a hint of malice in the eyes of the person who bails her out. He wears a wicked smile and looks at her like she's trash. "A poor man's daughter is a good match for a bastard."

Jian Nian's first impression of He Shenyuan is that he's either insane or vicious, someone incapable of normal human feelings. And as it turns out, she was right...

She suffers terribly at his hands. She keeps enduring it so she can leave Country K, but she never expected to die again.

The third loop begins. After trying everything she can think of for two loops without managing to escape, Jian Nian decides to use Jiang Yankai to get out of here. So she resolutely plunges into the sea and saves Jiang Yankai for the second time.

But to her surprise, in the third loop, everything changes...

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At first, Jiang Yankai was just doing it for fun. Every few days, he'd repeat the same suicide game to see if some fool would take the bait. Like a sea monster, he'd sink beneath the water to lure someone into rescuing him, then drag her down with him into the depths, where they could both drown together.

Jiang Yankai knew very well that many people who saved him would demand an exorbitant reward, whether it was sex or luxury goods. But Jian Nian was a little different.

Her clothes were soaked through, and she looked so helpless. A girl who couldn't speak or hear had still rushed to save him. He stood apart, coldly watching her struggle.

He didn't know that he was beginning to want more and more, no longer content with that.

1. Coercive pursuit. Not a strong female lead story.

2. Clean romance.

Synopsis written on 2024/6/8

Theme: Strive to stay alive