Thinking of this, An Ning hurriedly pulled open her collar and tugged out the red string around her neck—sure enough, it was that fish-shaped pendant.
Even though she already had a massive storage space, she wasn’t about to leave such a good item to the white lotus female lead.
This jade pendant was something she had obtained when she was ten years old. On her way to school, she saw an elderly man collapsed from hunger on the roadside. She gave him the coarse cornbread she had brought with her.
After eating it, the old man regained some strength. He thanked her profusely and took out this pendant from his clothes, giving it to her as a token of gratitude.
She liked the pendant at first sight, so she strung it on a red cord and wore it around her neck. She had been wearing it for five or six years now.
So this pendant didn’t belong to the Jiang family. Since the Jiang family knew she wasn’t one of them, they never paid much attention to her belongings.
But that white lotus Jiang Yan had taken a liking to this jade pendant the moment she arrived. She had long been thinking of ways to get it. Perhaps because of the protagonist halo, Jiang Yan was especially determined to obtain it.
Thinking that the whole Jiang family wouldn’t return until tomorrow night, An Ning had nothing to worry about. She took out a bowl of preserved egg and lean pork porridge from her space.
After filling her stomach, the warmth spread through her body, and she felt her strength returning.
She found a pin on the table, but after thinking it over, she worried it might be rusty and cause tetanus.
Since there was no one else in the entire courtyard, she went to the main hall and found a fruit knife they used for cutting fruit.
She went to the tap and washed it repeatedly until it was completely clean.
She wasn’t the female lead. Without a protagonist halo, it was better to be cautious. In this era, getting tetanus would be very troublesome.
Holding the cleaned fruit knife, she returned to her small room at the corner of the staircase and shut the doors and windows tightly.
She held the knife against her finger, hesitating again and again, unable to cut—it would hurt.
But thinking that Jiang Yan would return tomorrow night and take the pendant away, she gritted her teeth, closed her eyes, and fiercely dragged the knife across her finger.
She didn’t feel any pain. When she opened her eyes, she saw that she had been using the blunt back of the knife to cut herself, and she felt a bit speechless.
She couldn’t hesitate anymore. This time, she kept her eyes open, watching the blade as she cut through the skin of her finger. A bead of blood emerged, and she quickly pressed it onto the jade pendant, afraid it would dry before it could be applied.
The jade flashed with a white light—
Then it disappeared.
Disappeared.
Just like that.
Her jade pendant, at least the size of a thumb, vanished so dramatically.
She looked around. The stair-corner storage room of about four or five square meters contained nothing but a bed—everything was in plain sight.
Where was her jade pendant?
Then she thought of something. Closing her eyes, she silently said, “Enter.”
The next moment, a wave of dizziness hit her, and she appeared in a completely unfamiliar place.
Instantly, she was overjoyed.
This was the spirit spring space—there really was such a thing!
She had thought that everything she read before was just something authors made up to fool people.
But now that she was truly standing inside the space, she knew it wasn’t a dream. Although in her previous life she had already obtained a 10,000-square-meter storage bracelet—
That could only store items, and she had already filled it to the brim. Compared to this spirit spring space, it was far inferior.
Here, there was a vast stretch of black soil. Beside it stood a three-story villa, and next to the villa was a single-story house.
Suddenly, she heard a voice say, “Stunned, aren’t you, country bumpkin?”
She looked down and saw a small white dog crouching at her feet—a fluffy little creature with a faint ring of yellow fur around its neck.
“Little dog, was that you talking? Oh my, you’re so cute!”
Suddenly, the small white dog bared its sharp teeth and shouted at her:
“You’re the dog! Your whole family are dogs! I’m a White Tiger! Do you even know what a White Tiger is? Ignorant country bumpkin!”
“You’re saying you’re a White Tiger? Who are you trying to fool? A White Tiger looking like you? You’re so tiny—I could crush you with one hand.”
“Country bumpkin, so ignorant! This is just what I look like after being born. As long as you bring more things into the space, I’ll grow quickly.”
“Oh? So, Little White Tiger, right? Aren’t you quite capable? Calling yourself ‘young master’ and all—why do you need me to find things for you now? Can’t you do it yourself?”
“Woman, listen. I’m just still small right now. I can’t leave this space yet. Once I grow up, I’ll be very powerful!”
“So you mean you were born in this space and have never gone out?”
“White Tiger! I’m a White Tiger! I’m not a dog! I’m the artifact spirit born from this space!”
“You’re the space’s artifact spirit? Then you should know what this space contains and what functions it has, right?”
“Woman, country bumpkin—I’m the White Tiger, the artifact spirit of this space. Why should I tell you?”
“Oh? The artifact spirit? But this space has already acknowledged me as its master. Doesn’t that mean you belong to me too? That makes me your master, doesn’t it?”
The little White Tiger froze, scratched its head with its tiny paw, and said uncertainly:
“If the space has recognized you as its master… then you really are my master. But how can my master be a country bumpkin? Woman, I won’t call you that anymore. What should I call you then?”
“You definitely can’t call me that. I’m your master—you should call me ‘big sister.’ Come on, call me ‘big sister’ and let me hear it.”
The little White Tiger instantly lost its earlier arrogance. Fidgeting shyly, it called out in a soft, childish voice, “Big sister…”
An Ning picked it up from the ground. “Come on, tell big sister—what’s your name?”
The little White Tiger said sweetly, “Big sister, I was just born not long ago. I don’t have a name yet. Big sister, please give me one.”
An Ning stroked its head—hmm, nice to the touch. “You’re all white and fluffy like a little ball. I’ll call you Tuanzi. How about it? Do you like that name?”
“I have a name now! My name is Tuanzi! Big sister, I like it. I’ll be called Tuanzi from now on. Thank you, big sister.”
“Tuanzi, can you tell big sister what’s in this space now?”
“Of course, big sister! I’ll take you around. Although there are still many things I can’t remember, I do know some of what’s inside this space.”
“I’ll take you to the villa—it’s very beautiful. Big sister, come with me.”
As soon as the words fell, the girl and the little tiger were already standing in front of the villa’s main gate.
An Ning looked around. Just a moment ago, she had been on the other side of the black soil. This was teleportation—the space allowed instant movement.
“Tuanzi, we can teleport inside the space? We were just over there, and now we’re here in an instant.”