Title: Chapter 1 – Transmigration
When she arrived, the original owner of the body had accidentally fallen, hitting her forehead and losing her life on the spot. The moment she arrived in this body, she was met with the innocent yet dark eyes of two children. Now it had already been the third day since she came here. Looking at the mud-brick house with bare walls, Pei Luo still could not come back to her senses.
A luxurious villa had turned into a mud house, and a fortune worth tens of billions had become complete poverty. Even with her strong mentality, she almost fainted from the shock. As the inheritor of a traditional Chinese medicine family in the 21st century and a renowned miracle doctor worth tens of billions, she had struggled and worked hard for more than ten years, only to return to nothing overnight.
Heavens, are you sure you’re not playing a joke on me?
After trying to hypnotize herself countless times, she finally accepted the reality. This was not a dream—she had truly transmigrated. Thinking about the ancient jade she had broken before the transmigration, could it be because of that family heirloom jade that she had traveled through time?
Before the old master passed away, he had repeatedly warned her never to damage that ancestral jade. Yet she had accidentally slipped and shattered it. Her hand had been cut at the time as well. She clearly remembered seeing a dazzling white light burst from the jade, and then she appeared here.
“Grrr~”
Before she could finish sorting out her thoughts, her stomach growled loudly. Soon after, two more rumbling sounds followed. Pei Luo looked up and saw the two little ones shrinking fearfully into the corner. She didn’t move, and neither did they.
“Mother… we… we didn’t mean to make any noise.”
The little girl, already five years old, was very good at reading people’s expressions. Afraid of making her stepmother angry, she quickly apologized despite her fear.
Pei Luo frowned. Was she really that frightening? She must have been too absorbed in her thoughts and overlooked the fact that they hadn’t eaten anything for a long time. No wonder the two little ones’ stomachs were growling from hunger.
Pei Luo stood up, about to say she would prepare some food for them, but suddenly her legs went numb and she nearly fell headfirst.
Sob… she had been squatting too long, and her legs had gone numb.
The two children shrank back even more, as if afraid she might blame them.
“Uh…”
Looking at the two children who trembled like startled birds, Pei Luo couldn’t help but curse the original owner of this body countless times in her heart. That awful woman—even beating such small children. Truly heartless. Fortunately she had come here; otherwise, the two little ones might have been tortured to death by her.
Thinking about it this way, she suddenly didn’t feel so miserable anymore. After all, saving a life is better than building a seven-story pagoda. She had at least saved two lives now—maybe that was worth it.
Still… it hurt.
In her previous life, her parents had died early, and she had grown up relying on her grandfather. Later, even her grandfather passed away, leaving the huge family business in her hands alone. From the age of nineteen, she had already begun managing the enormous family estate. Fortunately, she was extremely talented in medicine. At a young age, she had completely mastered her grandfather’s Ghost Gate Thirteen Needles. Her medical skills were almost miraculous. In just ten years, she had become a world-recognized miracle doctor, and the Pei family’s medical arts had flourished under her hands.
Actually, when the original owner first married into this family, life hadn’t been this difficult. But during the half year after the marriage, she had been lazy and gluttonous, even exchanging many of the household belongings for food. Now the house was so empty that not only were there no mice—even flies would have to detour around it.
Pei Luo originally planned to find them something to eat, but after looking around, there was truly nothing left. Fortunately, it wasn’t dark yet. She went to the kitchen to check. Thankfully, pots and bowls weren’t worth much, so the original owner had left them behind. Though it was called a kitchen, it was actually just a temporary clay stove built under a shed.
“You two stay at home. I’ll go find something to eat.”
After reminding the children, Pei Luo stepped out of the house. Fortunately, she had inherited the original owner’s memories and still had some impression of the surroundings. Dashi Village was backed by a large mountain. Although the mountain was dangerous, there were indeed things that could be eaten.
Because the original owner often beat and scolded the children, she had very poor relations with the villagers. Many people would avoid her when they saw her, and some even snorted at her.
Pei Luo awkwardly rubbed her nose.
What a mess. Normally, people enjoy the shade from trees planted by their predecessors. But she had come here only to clean up someone else’s mess.
No anger, no anger. After all, they hated the original owner, not her.
Rubbing her hungry, growling stomach, Pei Luo quickly climbed the mountain. According to the original owner’s memories, there were many wild beasts in the mountains. People from Dashi Village usually went hunting in groups, so Pei Luo naturally didn’t dare go deep into the forest. She wandered around the outer areas and found that there was truly little to eat. Although it was early summer and vegetation was lush, it had not rained for a long time, making it difficult even to gather mushrooms. From time to time, she encountered villagers from neighboring villages hunting or searching for food.
The country she had transmigrated into was called the Great Qi Kingdom, a nation that did not exist in real history. The original owner did not know much about it, only that wars were everywhere and chaos filled the land. Combined with years of natural disasters, the common people often had nothing to eat and lived in extreme hardship. Among the nearby villages, Dashi Village was the poorest of them all.
When villagers had nothing to eat, they would also go into the mountains to search for food. The deep mountains were filled with wild beasts, so they didn’t dare venture inside and only wandered around the outer areas. As a result, almost nothing edible remained. Even the wild grasses—anything that could be eaten—had long been pulled out by the villagers.