Immortality Was Just the Start

Episode 1

A woman who sleeps for sixty years at a stretch wakes into a world that has turned her into a legend. Shelia Vaughn is the only immortal on earth, and her former servant's family has spent decades waiting for her return. But when the Gu household sends nobody to the mountain to greet her, they miss the moment entirely.

A young woman with no aura and no explanation walks straight into their lives, and the family's young master can't place her. She drops a strange claim about a sick elder's failing health, then leaves a string of sandalwood beads behind and a promise: in seven days, they'll know where to find her. The old servant's line is already unraveling.

Episode 2

The Gu family is a mess of excuses. One claims a meeting, another blames a mahjong game, and the daughter, Gu Panpan, says she was up all night helping the Fu family hunt for a miracle doctor. Nobody went to fetch the old ancestor, and the elderly Gu Changsheng is furious.

Then Shelia Vaughn walks in, and the household mistakes her for a long-lost illegitimate daughter angling for the inheritance. Gu Panpan sneers that nobody sleeps for sixty years. But the old man's eyes say otherwise, and he drops to his knees before her, calling her the old ancestor. The room goes quiet. Everyone is suddenly very wrong.

Episode 3

Gu Changsheng kneels and addresses the young woman as the old ancestor, and the family watches their patriarch bow to a girl half his age. He explains the name he carries: she blessed him long ago with a life free of disaster, and so he was called Changsheng. His leg, useless for two years and untreatable by any doctor, suddenly feels light the moment he sees her.

Gu Panpan is rattled. One look from Shelia and the girl is visibly terrified, though she can't explain why. Shelia notices something else in the room too, a creature she once spared out of pity that has clearly grown bold. Then she announces she wants to enroll at Kyoto University, and the family reels.

Episode 4

Shelia Vaughn wants to attend Kyoto University, and Gu Changsheng has already prepared a residence for her, one so grand that even the family head never dared live in it. The household is ordered to treat her like a guest of honor, and Gu Panpan is not handling it well.

The household fumes about a "fox spirit" stealing a daughter's place, while Gu Panpan quietly plans to make Shelia's time at school unbearable. The humiliation escalates: Shelia is handed an ancient qin made of rare agarwood, and Gu Panpan is ordered to hand-wash her clothes or be cast out. Meanwhile, word spreads that a miracle doctor may finally be found for the Fu grandfather.

Episode 5

The household settles into its new, uncomfortable rhythm. Shelia Vaughn is served a full menu of sixteen dishes without a single one missing, and she waves it off as a casual dinner. Arrangements for her enrollment are finished, and she's told she can start at the university tomorrow.

The old steward, who has spent years beside Gu Changsheng and met plenty of important people, admits that none of them carry her presence. He bows to her as the old ancestor. But Gu Panpan has been busy. Something Shelia left behind has already been torn to shreds, and the girl's hostility is no longer hiding behind politeness.

Episode 6

Shelia Vaughn arrives at Kyoto University and the campus reacts like a spotlight just switched on. Students call her a fairy, prettier than any campus beauty, and a stream of admirers forms on the spot. Gu Panpan, the music school's reigning beauty and the Gu family's only daughter, watches her thunder get stolen in real time.

Gu Panpan vows she won't rest until Shelia is gone. But something strange happens: Shelia seems to hear the thought before it's spoken. The idea that every flicker of the mind carries its own consequence isn't just a saying here. It's a warning, and Gu Panpan has no idea who she's up against.

Episode 7

Gu Panpan's scheming takes a nastier turn, and the pressure around Shelia builds. The gossip is ugly and deliberate, aimed at tearing down the new girl's reputation before she's even settled in.

At the same time, the Fu family's crisis deepens. The grandfather is fading, and his grandson, certain the miracle doctor will never be found, begins preparing for the old man's funeral. He promises to carry the Fu family's weight himself. But the grandfather waves all of that aside and demands the item in his grandson's pocket, revealing it's something the old ancestor left behind. The family's last hope isn't a doctor at all.

Episode 8

The Fu household finally connects the dots. The prayer beads came from a girl of eighteen or nineteen, and when the old man produces an old photograph, the truth lands hard: Shelia Vaughn looks exactly the same as she did sixty years ago. His grandson calls it a con, but the old man is certain.

He reveals what Kyoto's Four Great Houses really are. Every one of them traces back to her, and the fortune they've built was hers to begin with. Even Zhou Yun, the miracle doctor everyone is desperate to find, was once just a servant at the old ancestor's side. She wakes for three years after every sixty asleep, and being alive to see her is a stroke of impossible luck.

Episode 9

Word spreads that the miracle doctor's master may be somewhere on campus, and the hunt for her intensifies. Gu Panpan is convinced Shelia is just angling for credit with the Fu family, and she's determined to beat her to it.

So she makes a deal. She asks for help driving Shelia out of the university, and the other party agrees to give it everything they've got. The trap is set around something as petty as a skipped class and a fabricated disturbance. But when the confrontation erupts, Shelia isn't the one caught off guard. The people setting the snare are about to find out who's actually walking into whose.

Episode 10

The scheme collapses in spectacular fashion. A woman bursts into the office claiming Shelia attacked her, and the accusation is loud enough to bring the whole scene to a halt. Shelia is declared expelled on the spot.

But Shelia doesn't flinch. She fires back that the school authority passing judgment is perfectly healthy, and that his own fate isn't as secure as he thinks. The room turns on her anyway, and orders go out to drag her off campus. Gu Panpan is still in the middle of it, and the fight is far from over. Shelia has barely started showing what she is.

Gu Panpan thinks she's won a round, but Shelia Vaughn has been alive long enough to know how this ends. Start the first episode and watch the family that forgot its own ancestor try to throw her out.