Chapter 1: Transmigration
“Wah wah wah wah…”
The sharp cry of the infant pierced her eardrums, and a rocking sensation came from below. Shang Wan frowned slightly and slowly opened her eyes.
A brilliant blue sky and clouds as white as cotton entered her view. She was stunned. In the apocalypse, there was actually a blue sky and white clouds!
Speaking of which, hadn’t she already died in the zombie tide? Could this be heaven?
Her head suddenly throbbed with pain, and a large wave of memories that did not belong to her flooded into her mind one after another.
Shang Wan blinked slowly and quickly figured out her current situation through the memories.
She had transmigrated. This was not the apocalypse, but an ancient era similar to what she had seen in a documentary, the Great Zhou Dynasty.
The original owner of this body was also called Shang Wan. She was the wife of the Third Son of the wealthy Lu Family in Dongning County and had given birth to a daughter. She was extremely disliked by her in-laws on ordinary days.
Yesterday, the husband of this body had been imprisoned for poisoning the county magistrate. The Lu Family Members feared being implicated and hurriedly gathered the clan elders for a meeting that night. They removed the original owner’s family of three from the family tree, severing all ties with the Lu Family from then on.
Master Lu instructed the steward to drive the original owner and the child out of the Lu Family gates together, not even allowing her to pack any fine belongings. It was truly leaving with nothing.
Shang Wan curled her lips. No matter what, being alive was a good thing.
She sat up with support and discovered that she was lying on a dilapidated cart. No wonder it was so shaky.
The man pulling the cart in front and the woman walking beside him holding the swaddling clothes obviously hadn’t noticed she had woken up and were talking in low voices.
“Miss has been crying nonstop. No matter how I coax her, it’s no use. When will the Young Madam wake up?”
“The Young Madam has always been frail. She was just pushed and hit the stone lion, swelling a walnut-sized bump on her forehead. I’m afraid she won’t wake up for a while.”
Shang Wan raised her hand to touch her forehead. Sure enough, there was a big bump. No wonder her head hurt.
She subconsciously used Spiritual Spring Water to treat it.
A drop of transparent water bead emerged from her fair and tender fingertip, landing on the swollen bump. In an instant, it subsided, and it no longer hurt.
Looking closely, that patch of skin seemed even fairer and more tender than the surrounding area.
Shang Wan looked down at her fair fingertip, which had nothing on it.
Good news: Her space ability was still there, and the healing effect of the Spiritual Spring Water was as powerful as ever.
Bad news: Her level ten ability had shrunk dramatically. Not only had the space become smaller, but all the things stored inside were gone. The Spiritual Spring Water was pitifully scarce, probably only about five or six drops.
“Ah, Young Madam!”
Hearing the exclamation, Shang Wan looked up and saw the young girl holding the swaddling clothes widening a pair of round eyes, staring at her in surprise and delight.
She was the original owner’s personal maid, Xiao Huan.
“Young Madam, you’ve finally woken up!” Xiao Huan ran over excitedly, looking concernedly at Shang Wan’s forehead. “Your injury… huh?”
Where did the walnut-sized bump go?
The suddenly raised tone from the surprise startled the infant in the swaddling clothes, and the crying that had weakened somewhat rang out loudly again.
“Wah wah wah wah…”
Xiao Huan quickly rocked the swaddling clothes and cooed softly.
The man pulling the cart stopped and turned his head, his gaze sharp as a knife, glaring viciously at Shang Wan.
This seemed to be her cheap husband’s servant boy, named Shi Tou. He was quite fierce for such a young age.
“What are you glaring at? Don’t want your eyes anymore?” It wasn’t her who was preparing to cuckold his master.
Shang Wan wasn’t one to take out her anger on the original owner’s leftover issues for no reason. A fierce glint that didn’t match her appearance flashed in her eyes.
Shi Tou was intimidated by the suddenly erupting murderous aura from Shang Wan. Was this still that delicate and weak punching bag Young Madam who could only cry at every turn? How did she seem like a completely different person?
He clenched his fist and said angrily, “It’s all because of you that the Young Master got into trouble. Why wasn’t it you who was thrown into prison?”
“Shi Tou!” Xiao Huan had no time to coax the crying child in her arms and hurriedly scolded him. “How dare you speak to the Young Madam like that? Apologize to the Young Madam right now!”
“I didn’t say anything wrong!” Shi Tou stubbornly pursed his lips and turned his head away.
“Young Madam, Shi Tou is just worried about the Young Master’s safety and misspoke. Please be magnanimous and forgive him this time.” Xiao Huan quickly pleaded for Shi Tou. “You were pushed down by Steward Liu and hit your head. Shi Tou almost rushed up to fight Steward Liu desperately. It was also he who found this cart and dragged you all the way here.”
These were things that happened after the original owner passed out, so Shang Wan naturally didn’t know.
She looked at the bruises on Shi Tou’s profile and thought that the young boy had quite a tsundere personality.
“I’m not going to argue with a child.”
Shang Wan waved her hand magnanimously, which infuriated Shi Tou into turning his head to glare at her. When Shang Wan looked over, he quickly averted his glaring gaze, his lips almost pursed into a straight line.
Shang Wan chuckled inwardly. Had her earlier words scared him?
Hearing the child in the swaddling clothes cry until her voice was hoarse, Shang Wan leaned over curiously to look. “Why is she crying nonstop?”
The one-year-old baby girl clenched her small fists, howling at the top of her lungs with a mouth that only had two millet teeth. Her little face, not even the size of a palm, was flushed red, and tears flowed out endlessly like they cost nothing.
She truly had a small body with great energy.
“Young Madam, why don’t you hold Miss?” Xiao Huan looked at Shang Wan pleadingly, her eyes full of entreaty.
The Young Madam had always disliked that Miss was a girl and never held her unless necessary, let alone coaxed her. But Miss loved sticking to the Young Madam. As long as the Young Madam held her and coaxed her a little, she would stop crying.
Shang Wan stared at her cheap daughter.
In the apocalypse, young ones were rare treasures, the hope of humanity. She had only seen them but never held one.
Such a small and soft bundle—what if she couldn’t control her strength and accidentally hugged her to death?
While Shang Wan was hesitating, the little baby girl reached out her chubby little hand toward her while crying, staring at her with watery, dark eyes full of longing, mumbling in her little mouth, “Cold… Mommy…”
Who could resist this?
By the time Shang Wan came back to her senses, she already had the little one in her arms, extremely carefully controlling her strength, and even mimicked Xiao Huan’s way of rocking the child as she gently swayed.
Strangely enough, as soon as the little baby girl was in her arms, her crying gradually stopped. Her eyes like black grapes looked at her, and she grinned at her, drool flowing down from the corner of her mouth onto the small bib.
Shang Wan couldn’t help but lift the corners of her lips slightly. Her finger gently poked the little baby girl’s tender, tofu-like cheek. “Yuan Yuan is so good.”
Yuan Yuan was the nickname the original owner had given her cheap daughter.
Although the original owner didn’t like this daughter, her father and the wet nurse who served her cared deeply, raising the little girl chubby and fair-skinned.
Yuan Yuan seemed to have cried herself out and closed her eyes, sucking on her chubby little finger as she fell asleep, with a few teardrops still hanging on her thick, long lashes.
Seeing this, Xiao Huan breathed a sigh of relief. Glancing up to see Shang Wan’s gentle expression, she didn’t reach out to take the child back but instead quietly spoke of her and Shi Tou’s plans.
They definitely couldn’t go back to the Lu Family now, but the place where Lu Chengjing had recovered from illness as a child was still there, enough for the three people to temporarily stay.
Three hours later, Shang Wan looked at the thatched hut in front of her that swayed unsteadily in the wind and narrowed her eyes with a soft tsk. “This is the auspicious place you were talking about?”
