Her fifth rebirth came at nineteen.
There was still a year before she would meet Tang Beichen.
She had relatively few classes at this point, so she did not have to worry too much about coursework for now, or fret over finding work.
After this rebirth, Tang Tang took half an hour to recover, then immediately jumped out of bed, turned on her computer, and began searching for books on mysticism. She also visited one social media platform after another, following over a hundred Taoist and Buddhist masters and experts in the occult in one go.
For an entire week, she went nowhere, browsing every post she could find about mysticism, Taoism, and Buddhism.
Yet not one person could explain why she had been reborn five times in a row, only to live a little over two years at most each time.
Perhaps she had asked for help in too many places. The whole internet seemed to know about a "lunatic" like her, and afterward, no one paid her any attention when she joined related discussions.
The dozens of books she had ordered online arrived as well, so Tang Tang studied them by herself in her dorm.
When she first took leave from class, her roommates thought she was unwell. They checked on her and occasionally brought her food.
Later, when they discovered that she had stayed inside for half a month because she was obsessed with mysticism, they all thought she had gone mad and gradually distanced themselves from her.
She could no longer stay in the dorm.
Tang Tang had no choice but to contact her family and ask permission to rent a place off campus.
Renting alone was expensive. Her family was not particularly well-off to begin with, and with a house being built back home, there