short series

The Scales Behind the Mist

share time: 2026-01-08 00:31:18

Lin Xiaoman, an overworked office drone, suddenly regains memories of her past life while burning the midnight oil—she was once a "useless" princess of the Scale Clan in the cultivation realm, reborn as a city worker after being framed, and now bound to a sarcastic "Scale System" that demands urban counterattack missions to restore her powers. From being ostracized by colleagues and exploited by her boss, she uses tiny spells from the system to kick off her "cool story" journey: helping her supervisor handle a difficult client, turning a hostile intern into her fan, and even using qi manipulation to "deliver" coffee straight to Gu Shiyan, the CEO. But this cold president doesn’t get angry; instead, he smiles at her and says, "Your spell is exactly what I saw in my past life." It turns out Gu Shiyan is the bodyguard who took a fatal blow for her in their previous life, and he’s been searching for her with intact memories! While the system nags her with silly tasks like "Make Gu feed you cake," the secret of her past-life frame-up slowly unfolds. As Lin Xiaoman counterattacks in the city and practices cultivation, she also has to catch the sweetness Gu Shiyan has hidden for a thousand years—the best rebirth is finding you, and becoming each other’s light together.

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