When Song Manyi, a farm girl, was five, she fell and hit her forehead, and memories of her past life came back to her.
She had transmigrated into a book, and had been born into it.
She became the daughter of the male supporting character who served as a foil to the protagonist.
The original male protagonist was her third uncle: a precocious, hardworking scholar who had earned the private tutor's admiration, the quintessential ambitious country boy preparing for the imperial exams. By contrast, her father was saddled with labels like narrow-minded and miserly.
After she was injured in the fall, her father worried the wound would leave a scar. He used the money he had earned to pay for her treatment instead of continuing to support his younger brother's studies and exam preparations. Her grandmother flew into a rage and split their household off on its own.
Later, her third uncle passed the provincial exam and rose to prominence, transforming the family's fortunes.
Their branch, meanwhile, remained poor farmers.
Song Manyi: ...
