Falling Chrysanthemum Petals

Life is dull.

In the ancient Rong household, Rong Ju is an outlier—a girl who prefers the silent resonance of the Buddha hall in the hope that she bore no previous karmic debts. That is all because she has memories from her previous life.

But when she married, she realised that she had reincarnated into a book. A world that went on after the book ends, no less.

  1. Chapter 1
  2. Chapter 2
  3. Chapter 3
  4. Author's Commentary

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