After being reborn, Tao Yang transmigrates into the body of a princess from the Jingdong Tusi’s residence. The System offers no explanation of its rules, so she can only figure out how to use it by exploring its replaying dungeons. She is stranded among an unfamiliar primitive tribe and unexpectedly worshipped as a deity. The high priest teaches her all the tribe’s inherited secrets, but as a fake goddess with no spiritual power, Tao Yang can only rely on her modern knowledge to outmaneuver the tribespeople. She tries to escape with her maid but is caught, and her attempt to gather information fails. The Barok people’s trust in her is worn away again and again. After heavy casualties in a tribal feud, Tao Yang’s tricks are exposed, and she is mercilessly driven out.
The System’s attributes become unbalanced, and warnings sound one after another. She accidentally enters the Jingmai Secret Realm. Hearing the System’s warnings and longing for the family she left behind in her previous life, Tao Yang makes a decision:
I’ll clear every System dungeon and build up my cultivation as soon as possible. I’m going home!
In extreme circumstances, she can summon the System’s space, and Tao Yang puts herself in danger again and again. As the number of dungeon replays accumulates, she receives a flood of unfamiliar memories and begins to doubt herself. Does time really move forward? Have I seen that scene before? The dungeon’s anchor points are constantly recovered, and her cultivation grows day by day. Her increasingly clear “memories” all point to another, unexperienced timeline: she successfully marries into the Mengmian Tusi family and uncovers the secrets of Jingdong Prefecture anew.
There is no way out of the Jingmai Secret Realm. After cultivating there for three years, Tao Yang cuts ties with the master who raised her and destroys her own cultivation in order to break through the realm’s barrier.
With her cultivation completely lost, she enters the mountains again and nearly falls prey to a giant python, but a passing young hero saves her. The chivalrous young man takes Tao Yang back to his stronghold for treatment. When she wakes, his first words are, “Princess, do you still remember me?”
Oh no, Tao Yang thinks, alarmed. “I’ve run into an old flame from the princess’s past life.”
Theme: Even after seeing the truth of life, you must continue to love life.
I laughed so hard the aroma reached my palate.