I Was Supposed to Die That Night

Shen Zhining accidentally transmigrates into an ancient novel and receives four secret sachets as a cheat code to escape the original story’s tragic fate. The first sachet warns her not to deliver fruits to a general, saving her from being wrongfully implicated in his drunken misconduct. That same rainy night, she meets Xiao Heng, the distressed ninth prince and the novel’s future protagonist, and shelters him by treating his wounds and hiding him from pursuers. Using her knowledge of the plot, Shen Zhining helps Xiao Heng reclaim his political standing. Just as she is about to be crowned crown princess, the second sachet orders her to leave the capital forever. She obeys and departs quietly. Soon after, Xiao Heng marries a nobleman’s daughter, whose entire clan is later framed and exiled—Shen Zhining avoids the catastrophe entirely. The third sachet cautions her never to fall in love with Xiao Heng, but he finds her in Jiangnan, confessing his reign feels empty without her. She yields and returns as his e