Qiao Sang had done everything “right” in her old life. Top grades, top university, the kind of 985 background people brag about in family gatherings. She wasn’t the type who panicked easily, and she definitely wasn’t the type who failed exams.
So when she opens her eyes and finds herself sitting in a middle school classroom, wearing someone else’s uniform, the first feeling isn’t excitement. It’s confusion. The second feeling is worse.
A paper gets slammed onto her desk. The room is loud. The teacher’s voice is louder.
Mr. Yu is going off about a student who scored zero on the mock exam. Not “low,” not “barely passed.” A clean, humiliating zero.
And yeah… it’s her.
At first, Qiao Sang is stunned in that weird, frozen way where you can’t even feel embarrassed yet because your brain is still catching up. Then she looks at the questions, and the real horror hits. This isn’t math, literature, or science. It’s beast taming theory. Evolutionary routes. Colonized planets. Stuff that reads like a fantasy textbook written by someone who thinks normal school is too easy.
She didn’t fail because she’s dumb. She failed because she literally arrived in this world only a few days ago and didn’t understand a single word on the test.
That’s the cruel part. In her original world, hard work meant something. Here, she’s been dropped into a system where knowledge isn’t transferable, and being “smart” doesn’t help when you don’t even know the rules.
Pretty quickly, she pieces together where she’s landed: the Beast Taming Era. A civilization that’s been running for 32 million years. Humans didn’t just discover beasts here—they built society around them. Transportation, work, status, income… it all comes back to one thing: whether you can awaken the Beast Taming Codex and contract a beast.
At fifteen, everyone goes through magnetic stimulation to trigger that awakening. But it isn’t guaranteed. Only 73% succeed. The rest? They don’t just miss out on a career choice. They get pushed to the bottom, permanently. In a world where beasts handle most labor, not being able to tame one is basically the same as being powerless.
And Qiao Sang has a deadline hanging over her head like a blade.
Twenty-one days.
That’s all she has until the high school entrance exam.
The girl whose body she’s now using wasn’t some hidden genius either. She was already stuck in the bottom third of the class, the kind of student teachers sigh about. Even her deskmate, Fang Sisi—who struggles plenty herself—still scored 263. Qiao Sang’s zero doesn’t just look bad. It looks hopeless.
During a break, she overhears classmates talking about Dai Shushu, the top student who basically became a legend overnight. Dai Shushu got accepted into a prestigious Beastmaster high school early, not because of grades, but because she achieved something almost mythical: self-awakening.
Unlike normal awakening through stimulation, self-awakening happens naturally. It’s so rare it shows up in only 0.01% of the population. And once it happens, it’s like a golden ticket—admission becomes automatic, no matter what your test scores look like.
That’s when Qiao Sang realizes something that makes her heartbeat go weirdly fast.
She self-awakened the moment she transmigrated.
The problem is, saying it out loud doesn’t magically make people believe her.
After school, Mr. Yu drags her into his office and tears into her like she’s making excuses. When she tries to explain, he shuts her down and calls her guardian anyway. Qiao Sang leaves the office with that sinking feeling that something ugly is waiting at home.
Except home isn’t what she expects either.
Her family situation is almost painfully familiar. Parents divorced early. Father remarried. Mother raised her alone. Her mother’s name is Ye Xiangting, and she’s an E-level Beast Tamer who makes a living with two contracted pets: a Faithful Owl and a Fat Dove. She runs aerial tour services—nothing glamorous, but enough to get by.
Here’s the twist: Ye Xiangting actually believes her.
No dramatic screaming, no “stop lying,” no lecture. She listens, thinks for a moment, and takes Qiao Sang straight to the Hanggang Beast Taming Center to verify it properly.
Verification isn’t cheap. It costs 500 Alliance Coins, which is clearly not pocket change for them. But they pay it anyway.
The test itself is strange in a way Qiao Sang can’t really describe. A short-haired researcher oversees it, along with a psychic-type beast called Bubbles Bell. The process is quiet, clinical, and tense enough to make Qiao Sang’s palms sweat.
And then the results come back.
It’s real.
Qiao Sang didn’t imagine it. She truly self-awakened. One of only six students that year. Her brain development reaches 5%, compared to the standard 2%. Not just awakened—elite.
For the first time since arriving in this world, Qiao Sang can breathe.
She still has a mountain of problems. She still has to catch up in a world where everyone else has been studying beast taming since childhood. And she’s still starting from the body of a struggling student with a terrible reputation.
But now she has proof. A rare gift. And a path that actually exists.
Qiao Sang isn’t here to fall in love, play side character, or beg for luck. If she’s going to survive the Beast Taming Era, she’s going to do it her way—fast, smart, and without waiting for anyone to save her.
