She's lived this moment before—the crucial graduate school presentation where students choose their thesis advisors and seal their academic fates. Last time, she picked the prestigious Professor Chen and spent five years climbing to the top of her field, achieving everything she thought she wanted. But when she wakes up back at the beginning with all her memories intact, she makes a different choice: the department's most notorious, unconventional, and professionally suicidal professor to work under. Everyone thinks she's thrown away her future, and maybe she has—but she remembers something they don't about what really matters. Now she'll either crash and burn spectacularly, or discover that the "worst" path might lead somewhere her perfect career never could.