Su Wan died.
Then, in the blink of an eye…
She was alive again.
Looking down at her fair, slender arms and legs, she frowned. They looked so delicate that they might snap with a hard twist.
Something wasn’t right.
Hadn’t she been reborn?
Then why did this body look like it belonged to a fifteen- or sixteen-year-old girl instead of a baby?
Confused, Su Wan turned her head.
A flood of unfamiliar memories crashed into her mind like a tidal wave, leaving her completely stunned.
She had transmigrated into a novel called Dominion, becoming the vicious cannon-fodder supporting character—Su Wan.
Su Wan was the legitimate eldest daughter of a marquis’ household. Her mother had died shortly after giving birth to her.
When Su Wan turned fifteen, her father remarried his long-lost first love, a widow, making her the new Marchioness. He treated his stepdaughter as though she were his own flesh and blood, constantly demanding that Su Wan give in to her younger stepsister.
She gave way once.
Then again.
Until even her own marriage was taken from her.
Su Wan’s fiancé had originally been the Crown Prince.
Just a few days before the wedding, her father sat her down.
“Wanwan, you’ve lived in luxury since childhood. You’ve never known hardship.”
“But your sister is different. Her late father was a poor scholar. She grew up in the countryside and suffered all her life.”
“She already has a fiancé—a penniless scholar. Now that she’s finally living comfortably, if she marries him, she’ll just return to a life of poverty.”
“I’ve thought it over.”
“Your sister will marry the Crown Prince.”
“And you will marry the scholar.”
“You’re my biological daughter. We’ll simply have the scholar marry into our family. No one will dare gossip.”
Naturally, Su Wan refused.
She made an enormous scene.
In the end, her father had her tied up, forced into the bridal sedan, and married off to the impoverished scholar, Gu Huaizhi.
Meanwhile…
Her stepsister entered the Eastern Palace in magnificent style, escorted by an extravagant bridal procession stretching for miles.
Hatred consumed Su Wan.
She hated her father’s favoritism.
She hated the Gu family for agreeing to the marriage and taking her in.
What made it worse was the Gu family’s miserable circumstances.
Gu Huaizhi was a sickly invalid.
His widowed mother was infamous throughout the surrounding villages for being difficult.
His younger twin brother and sister were only seven or eight years old.
To Su Wan, the entire family was nothing but a collection of burdens.
Unable to endure it any longer, she completely broke down.
Convinced that the Gu family and her stepmother had conspired together, she poisoned Gu Huaizhi’s medicine.
Then she sold his younger siblings to human traffickers, using the money to travel back to the capital, determined to reclaim everything that should have been hers.
Unfortunately…
The Crown Prince was the novel’s male protagonist.
Her stepsister was the female protagonist.
How could a mere cannon-fodder villain possibly defeat the main characters?
Their protagonist’s plot armor crushed her effortlessly.
Worse still…
The traffickers sold Gu Huaizhi’s younger brother and sister into a brothel, where they were abused to death.
Madam Gu couldn’t bear the blow and died from grief.
Gu Huaizhi descended into darkness, becoming the novel’s ultimate villain.
When he finally took his revenge…
Su Wan died an unimaginably gruesome death.
…
It took Su Wan a long time to accept the fact that she’d transmigrated into a novel.
The story itself had only been one of those casual books she’d read to pass the time, so she remembered only the general plot.
In her previous life, her grandfather had owned a martial arts school.
Her maternal grandfather had run a traditional Chinese medicine clinic.
She had learned martial arts from her grandfather and inherited extraordinary medical skills from her grandfather on her mother’s side.
Later, she entered medical school, specializing in Western medicine.
By combining traditional Chinese medicine with modern medicine, she had saved countless lives.
Then…
She died in a car accident.
Was Heaven dissatisfied with such an easy death?
Was that why she’d been thrown into a novel just to die an even more spectacular one?
What terrible sins had she committed?
“Huaizhi, it’s time to drink your medicine.”
Madam Gu’s voice came from outside.
Su Wan shuddered.
Suddenly, she remembered exactly where the story currently was.
This was the moment when the original Su Wan poisoned Gu Huaizhi’s medicine!
“Don’t drink it!”
She yanked the door open and rushed outside.
Just as she arrived, Gu Huaizhi had already lifted the bowl to his lips.
Her pupils contracted.
Without thinking, she lunged forward and knocked the bowl from his hands.
Crash!
The porcelain bowl shattered against the ground, breaking into countless pieces.
Su Wan’s heart pounded violently.
Only after seeing the medicine spilled all over the floor did she finally let out a long breath of relief.
“Get up.”
A cold, sinister voice filled with restrained anger sounded above her.
Only then did Su Wan realize she had landed sprawled across Gu Huaizhi’s lap.
Before she could climb up herself, a powerful force shoved her away.
Using the momentum, she twisted gracefully in midair and landed firmly on her feet.
The moment she looked up…
She met a pair of pitch-black eyes.
Cold.
Bottomless.
Impatient.
And utterly indifferent.