Searching for the Host…]
[Found it!]
[Linking to the body …]
“Ugh! My head hurts so much.”
Feeling a terrible headache, she reached for something next to her pillow and accidentally rang a bell.
It didn’t take long before several people entered the room.
“Miss Zinnia?!”
That was when Zinnia, who was now sitting up, turned her gaze toward the open door, where a beam of light was beginning to flood the room.
A bead of cold sweat trickled down her temple, and Zinnia’s face looked deathly pale, filled with horror.
“You called me… who?” Before she could even understand what was happening to her, Zinnia was startled again by something astonishing.
“Miss Zinnia. It looks like you have a fever!” A maid with a serious expression hurried over to Zinnia and checked her forehead.
Zinnia remained silent, letting the maid do whatever she wanted to her.
“Zinnia? Isn’t that the Villainess from that damn Mystic Beast novel?” Zinnia began to think; she was very familiar with that name because it left a strong impression on her.
With trembling hands, Zinnia reached up to her head to confirm something.
When her hand brushed against a furry ear on top of her head, Zinnia immediately let out another terrified scream.
“No way! Damn it, I really have become that bitch!” Zinnia rolled around on her bed and hurriedly searched for a mirror.
In the darkness, with just a sliver of light seeping through the crack in the open door, Zinnia could see her current appearance.
A reddish-orange furry ear sat atop her head.
Not only that, but a fluffy tail of the same color was swaying behind her.
“That transmigration… is it really true?” Zinnia muttered softly after falling to her knees in front of the full-length mirror.
Seeing Zinnia’s strange behavior, the maids present exchanged frightened glances.
They wanted to ask questions but were afraid of incurring the wrath of Zinnia, who was notoriously temperamental.
Zinnia’s personal maid, Anna, stepped forward and told the other maids to leave, while she slowly approached Zinnia.
“Miss, please go back to sleep. I’ll prepare some herbal tea to calm you down.” Anna gently helped Zinnia to her feet and guided her back to the bed.
Zinnia, still half-asleep, followed her in silence.
The light illuminating the room slowly faded after Anna left.
“Come on, my brain, think fast! I don’t want to die stupid like Zinnia,” Zinnia muttered, hugging her knees in fear.
“I have to find out right away how far the story has progressed.”
Zinnia snapped her fingers as if she’d had a brilliant idea.
“That’s right! I have to make sure the Count Vermillion family doesn’t move to the capital because…”
That was when Zinnia remembered what happened in the original Mystic Beast story.
In the original story, the Vermillion family never returned from the capital.
Her father lost his title.
Her mother died while fleeing.
And Zinnia herself ended up in the hands of Lionel, the man she had been obsessed with all along.
“The day I set foot in the capital was the day that destruction arrived,” Zinnia muttered, her gaze vacant.
“No… It can’t be like this. I have to find a way to stop that tragedy if I want to survive.” Zinnia shook her head while biting her fingernails.
“I’ve already experienced… death once.” Unconsciously, Zinnia shuddered in horror as she thought about how she had died before.
The first thing Zinnia did the next day was to search for her parents, Count and Countess Vermillion.
From the information Zinnia had received from Anna, her parents were currently in her father’s study.
She hurried there.
Impatiently, Zinnia knocked on the door to her father’s study.
It didn’t take long for her to get a response.
“Dad, there’s something I want to tell you!” Zinnia said with determination.
“Oh, sweetheart. Do you need something?” A middle-aged woman with fox ears and a tail walked over to Zinnia.
“Mom,” Zinnia replied, a little awkwardly.
Zinnia still wasn’t used to seeing humans with ears and a tail like this.
Every time she saw it, her brain still needed a few seconds to process that it wasn’t a CGI effect or cosplay.
“Um… Dad, I don’t want to go to the capital anymore. So you don’t need to sell the county for me,” Zinnia said firmly.
At that moment, Zinnia’s parents exchanged glances, as if they could communicate solely through their eyes.
“Is this another one of your tricks?”
“Do you need more money to prepare for your trip to the capital, sweetheart?”
“You can just tell Dad directly if you want something. Don’t pull stunts like this because I won’t know what you want,” Dad explained calmly.
Zinnia, meanwhile, was stunned; if she hadn’t held herself back, her jaw would surely have dropped to the floor.
She was so shocked by their reaction.
“Dad, Mom, I’m completely serious! I’m not joking!” Zinnia hurriedly explained, panicked.
“Mom knows what you mean. Go into town to buy a new dress,” Mom replied, still with a smile on her face.
“Anna, take Zinnia back to her room to get ready.”
It didn’t take long before Anna came in and dragged Zinnia away from there.
Zinnia could see her mother waving at her with a smile on her face, as was her father; only her father’s assistant let out a long sigh.
Realizing that no one believed her, Zinnia clutched her head in horror.
“I’m going to die.”
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“Anna, get my writing materials ready,” said Zinnia as she paced back and forth in front of the large window in her luxurious room.
“Yes, Miss.”
“This isn’t good. If things keep going this way, I won’t be able to avoid my fate of going to the capital,” Zinnia muttered as she bit her fingernails.
That was when Zinnia’s footsteps halted, and a throbbing pain began in her head, accompanied by the hissing sound of a machine buzzing inside her head.
Ding!
[The linking process is complete!]
[Welcome to the Cozy Farming Simulator System, Host!]
[The System can’t wait to work with the Host in the future. As a welcome gesture, the System will assign a Quest!]
[Welcoming Quest: Mission: Acquire Your First Farmland (0/1) Time Limit: 24 hours Reward: Farming Guide Books and Tools Penalty: Death!]
Zinnia clenched her teeth tightly as she looked at the transparent screen that appeared before her.
“Transmigrating with the system was to be expected,” Zinnia muttered softly.
Then, slowly, she clenched both fists tightly to hold back her anger.
“But shouldn’t you be helping me instead of handing me a death sentence like this!” Zinnia roared angrily in her mind, lashing out at the System.
[Ehe~]
Zinnia tugged at her hair in frustration; even the System wasn’t on her side!
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Realizing she could die if she didn’t complete the System’s Quest, Zinnia refused to give up so easily.
That night, she set out once more to find her parents, fully prepared.
“This time, you won’t be able to refuse my request,” Zinnia muttered with a faint smirk at the corner of her lips.
Even though it was this late at night, Zinnia had learned that her father was still in his office.
She was sure he was swamped with work because of the illogical things she’d been doing lately.
Zinnia took a slow breath.
“I’m doing this for your own good,” she murmured softly before stepping into her father’s office.
“Zinnia, it’s unusual for you to still be awake at this hour.”
At that moment, Zinnia lifted her dress and knelt in front of her father’s desk.
“Dad, I’m serious when I say I no longer want to move to the capital. Please assign me to manage one of the districts in your county; let me reflect on myself there!” Zinnia said loudly.
Instantly, her father’s eyes widened in shock; he even felt his head spinning upon hearing Zinnia’s rapid-fire words.
“You want to manage your own territory?”
A spark lit up in Zinnia’s eyes when she heard her father’s reply, realizing there was still hope for her.
For the first time that night, Count Vermillion no longer took his daughter’s words as a joke.
He stared at Zinnia for quite a while before letting out a sigh.
“In that case… there is one territory I might be able to give you.”