After Transmigrating, She Grew Stronger Than Expected

Lian Yue kept her palms in freezing clay until her fingers went numb. That was the only way she trusted her work. Then she noticed that the village elder moved like a man who had lived far too long, and the truth hit hard. He was a sealed immortal, and he had been watching her village for forty years. Lian Yue was the first child in that time to notice. Her gift with porcelain clay made her see stress lines in bowls, walls, and people. That same gift led her to a forbidden time method that could steal one breath to save another. She refused it again and again, even as every choice cost her food, sleep, and pride. The people around her kept studying, training, and leaning on one another throu...