After Tu Lan and the other tribe members left…
The forest became quiet once again.
The cubs returned to playing.
The adults remained alert because of the mysterious stranger.
But Bai Xueyin’s thoughts were elsewhere.
Far away.
She sat alone beside the stream.
Watching the water flow.
Thinking.
Something wasn’t right.
The more she learned about the original Bai Xueyin…
The less she understood.
Because according to the novel—
Bai Xueyin was just a side character.
A background figure.
Someone whose existence mainly highlighted the original female lead.
Yet reality was completely different.
The original Bai Xueyin had traveled across continents.
Helped tribes.
Saved lives.
Met powerful beast kings.
Had connections everywhere.
And apparently knew secrets about memory seals.
How was that possible?
Xueyin frowned.
“No matter how I think about it…”
She muttered.
“It doesn’t make sense.”
In most beastworld novels—
The female lead was the center of everything.
The side characters existed around her.
Not the other way around.
Yet the original Bai Xueyin felt more mysterious than the female lead herself.
Almost as if…
A terrifying thought suddenly appeared.
“What if the novel never told the whole story?”
The stream continued flowing quietly.
Xueyin’s eyes widened slightly.
Because the more she thought about it—
The more possible it seemed.
The novel she read had been written from the female lead’s perspective.
Meaning…
Readers only knew what the female lead knew.
And the female lead barely interacted with Bai Xueyin.
Which meant—
The original Bai Xueyin’s entire life might have happened outside the story.
Unseen.
Unknown.
Hidden between chapters.
Suddenly—
A voice spoke behind her.
“You’re thinking hard.”
Xueyin jumped.
Wu Ye was sitting on a tree branch above her.
She didn’t even know when he arrived.
“Stop doing that!”
The raven smiled.
“Doing what?”
“Appearing out of nowhere.”
“That’s my specialty.”
Xueyin rolled her eyes.
Then looked back toward the stream.
After a moment—
She quietly asked:
“Wu Ye.”
“Hm?”
“Was my old self…
always this strange?”
The raven became silent.
Not offended.
Not surprised.
Just thoughtful.
Then unexpectedly—
He laughed softly.
Xueyin blinked.
“Really?”
Wu Ye nodded.
“The first time I met You…”
His golden eyes became distant.
“You always seemed to know things you shouldn’t.”
Xueyin froze.
“What kind of things?”
Wu Ye jumped down from the tree.
Then sat beside her.
“you predicted a flood.”
“…What?”
“The river flooded exactly three days later.”
Silence.
Xueyin’s heart began beating faster.
Wu Ye continued.
“There was also the time you warned a tribe of an approaching beast stampede.”
“It happened.”
“Exactly as you said.”
Xueyin stared.
That sounded familiar.
Too familiar.
Like someone who knew future events.
Like…
Someone who had read a novel.
Then Wu Ye said something even more shocking.
“Sometimes, you’d look at someone and somehow know things you shouldn’t.”
“What things?”
The raven’s smile faded slightly.
“Their future.”
The stream seemed louder suddenly.
Xueyin’s fingers tightened.
Because she knew exactly what that sounded like.
A transmigrator.
Someone who knew the plot.
Just like her.
But that made everything worse.
Because if the original Bai Xueyin was also a transmigrator…
Then who exactly had transmigrated into this body?
And where had she gone?
For the first time since arriving in this world.
A chill ran down Bai Xueyin’s spine.
Because maybe…
Just maybe…
She wasn’t the first person from another world to become Bai Xueyin.
And somewhere inside the sealed memories…
The answer was waiting.