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Elara never expected her love for a story to become her destiny.
After watching the tragic fate of Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji, she falls asleep wishing the world of cultivation had been kinder to them. But when she wakes again, the world she once watched through a screen has become her reality.
Reborn into the body of a girl who never existed in the original story, Elara finds herself as the unexpected half-sister of Nie Mingjue and Nie Huaisang, the forgotten middle child of the Qinghe Nie Sect.
Armed with knowledge of a future filled with betrayal, war, and heartbreak, Elara makes a quiet vow-to change the fate of the cultivation world.
But altering destiny is never simple.
Each tragedy she prevents creates new consequences, and the more she interferes, the more the fragile balance of the Five Great Sects begins to shift. While she works behind the scenes to protect the people she once admired from afar-including the mischievous Wei Wuxian, the steadfast Lan Wangji, and the next generation of young cultivators-the world itself seems determined to correct the path of fate.
Amid the chaos of shifting history, Elara finds unexpected solace in the gentle presence of Lan Xichen, the First Jade of Lan. What begins as quiet understanding slowly grows into something deeper-something neither of them were meant to have in the original timeline.
Yet the more Elara changes the story, the more uncertain her own place in this world becomes.
Because she was never meant to exist here.
And when the final confrontation at Nightless City approaches-a moment that once led to tragedy-Elara must decide how much she is willing to sacrifice to rewrite fate.
Even if saving everyone else means losing her own place in the story.
After all, a single butterfly can change the wind...
But can it change destiny?