They had always said that the Night King's Consort was the most beautiful woman in the world, and that anyone who saw her would never forget her. If one truly fell for her, they would never find anyone else pleasing to their eye for the rest of their lives.
Now, upon seeing Zhan Xiaojun, the Night King's daughter, he was utterly captivated.
What a pity, though.
She shouldn't be the Night King's daughter!
The Night King was an enemy they wished to kill and drink the blood of!
However, before she died, he could toy with her for a while. At the very least, he could go before the Night King and tell him how he had toyed with Zhan Xiaojun, and how Zhan Xiaojun had been played by him to the brink of death.
"You're the one who was born into the wrong family. You are seeking death," Zhan Xiaojun narrowed her eyes and said coldly.
Even if she were to die here today due to bad luck, her parents and brothers would find these people and make them pay a heavy price!
As her words fell, she turned and leaped into the unfathomable lake without hesitation.
The water splashed high.
The spray landed on the men by the lake. Immediately, cries of alarm erupted, "Quick! Jump in and catch her! We absolutely cannot let her escape!"
"Anyone who can swim, go down!"
The man's eyes turned blood red. "I want her head! No, I want her alive! Do you hear me?"
The voices, carried through the water, reached Zhan Xiaojun's ears.
Zhan Xiaojun bit her lip tightly. She had taken a deep breath before jumping, enough for her to swim a considerable distance underwater.
However.
She suddenly saw a white light not far away.
The light was blindingly brilliant.
It flashed past her eyes.
The next moment, she lost consciousness...
At the same time.
Yun Shu and Zhan Tianye, who were playing chess to pass the time, both felt a sudden jolt in their chests.
Then they looked at each other.
"You felt it too?"
They asked almost simultaneously.
Yun Shu frowned slightly, "Did something happen to the children?"
Zhan Tianye's expression grew serious. "I'll go see Qiu Lu."
"Okay."
At the same moment, Zhan Xiaoli, Zhan Xiaofeng, and Yun Xiaojing, in different locations, all felt a sharp pain in their chests. Those riding horses nearly fell off, those drinking tea choked on their tea, and those walking nearly stumbled.
As if by telepathy, they murmured, "What's going on?"
The surrounding scenery was like light and shadow.
Flickering and shifting.
A beam of light seemed to descend from the surface of the water.
The last breath in her mouth was exhausted.
Zhan Xiaojun suddenly broke the surface of the water.
When she emerged from the water and saw the unfamiliar place she was in, she was stunned.
What kind of place was this?
Around her were various objects she had never seen before, and she was lying in a large basin, similar to a bathtub but not quite, filled with water.
But the water was red.
Being highly sensitive to the smell of blood, she immediately realized the red in the water was blood.
Upon closer inspection, she saw that her wrist was bleeding continuously.
"Someone actually cut my wrist!"
She quickly pressed on the wound, got out of the strange basin, and saw cloth on the ground – fabrics she found very curious, or other items. She expertly tore them apart and bandaged her wound.
She looked around the peculiar surroundings, wanting to find her clothes.
Her clothes contained silver needles that could help her.
But there was no sign of her belongings anywhere.
She suddenly saw a large mirror. Standing before it, she saw herself, naked.
When she saw the clear, visible slap marks on her pale, colorless face, she thought she was hallucinating. She remembered very clearly that the assassins hadn't touched her face at all.
So what was going on with her reflection in the mirror?
And the color of her hair, it was pink...
Hallucination?
Suddenly, a large chunk of memories that didn't belong to her began to swirl in her mind, constantly merging with her original memories.
She pressed her head and leaned to the side.
Her lips were tightly drawn.
She processed all these bizarre events.
In the end, she was utterly, completely shocked.
What had happened to her mother had happened to her?
When she was very young, she and her brothers learned their mother's secret. Their mother was not the real Yun Shu. In fact, their maternal grandfather had known long ago that their mother was not the real Yun Shu.
Their mother had come to their world from another era.
And she had also come to another world!
This was Hua Guo, a world completely different from theirs. It had everything modern: buildings, mobile phones, and all sorts of things she had never seen before.
Had she died?
She had jumped into the lake and quickly lost consciousness.
And that was why she had transmigrated here?
She looked down at her disheveled body and frowned tightly. If she had truly died, her parents and brothers would be heartbroken. She didn't want to leave them either!
Although she knew her parents would eventually find her body and avenge her, and those who killed her would not get away with it, she was still very, very sad.
She wanted to go back.
Suddenly, a knock came from the door.
"Xiaojun, stop messing around. No matter how much you throw a tantrum, Mu Bai won't like you. He has always liked Xiao Ya. Why must you keep pestering? Are you really trying to make your father sick?"
Listening to the words outside the door, Zhan Xiaojun calmed down.
The person whose body she had occupied was also named Zhan Xiaojun. What a coincidence.
The person speaking outside the door now was the original body's stepmother, Wang Qi. Xiao Ya was the original body's half-sister, only a month younger than her. According to the standards here, the original body's father had an affair during his marriage, then abandoned his first wife to marry his mistress.
After her birth mother was abandoned, she took the original body back to her hometown, a remote village.
Just a year ago, the original body's birth mother became seriously ill. Fearing that the original body would have no one to care for her, she uncharacteristically mustered the courage to seek out the media. To cover up his disgrace, Zhan Zhicheng, the original body's father, brought the original body back.
Then Wang Qi and Zhan Zhicheng began to brainwash the original body, to the point that the original body no longer cared about her birth mother and even cooperated with them in holding a press conference, slandering her gravely ill birth mother.
Later, Zhan Xiaoya pretended to be good friends with the original body. Seeing how the original body blushed whenever she saw Mu Bai, she told the original body that Mu Bai also liked her, encouraging her to embarrass herself in front of Mu Bai from time to time, so as to better highlight Zhan Xiaoya's virtues.
However, the original body was foolish and was led by the nose the whole way.
As a result, when she heard the news of their engagement an hour ago, she couldn't bear it. She argued with him, pestering Mu Bai, asking him why he was getting engaged to Zhan Xiaoya, and asking Zhan Xiaoya why she had lied to her. Zhan Xiaoya, of course, denied it.
Seeing the original body crying and screaming, Zhan Zhicheng found it embarrassing and slapped her twice.
After hitting her, he scolded her, "Get back to your room! You're an embarrassment. Look at you, in what way can you compare to Xiao Ya? How could I have a daughter like you who can't even appear in public? Why don't you just die? Get out!"
The original body, heartbroken and despised by her own father, called her birth mother. Her uncle answered the phone. He cursed at the original body, and only then did the original body realize her mistake. In her anger and grief, she slit her own wrist and committed suicide.
At this moment, more voices came from outside the door.
"Don't bother with her! In a few days, I'll announce in the newspaper that I have no father-daughter relationship with her!" Zhan Zhicheng now wished he could kill Zhan Xiaojun with his own hands.