A New Life for Heran.
In the 28th year of Tianhe in the Dongqin Dynasty, it was early spring.
The winter of that year had been unusually long. Even though the Beginning of Spring solar term had already passed, a heavy snowfall still blanketed the land two days ago.
The snow piled up to two feet high, and the coldness seemed to freeze the very earth and sky. Bai Heran was awakened by the prick of needles.
The moment her consciousness returned, she felt the biting cold wind swirling around her, cutting her face like sharp knives. She was quite astonished. She had clearly been shot dead, so how on earth had she come back to life?
It had been midsummer when she died, yet what was with this frost that was now stinging her face?
Both of her arms were pinned behind her back, and her knees were forced to kneel in the thick layer of snow.
Voices of two young maids reached her ears.
"Don't even think about returning to the mansion to snatch away the noble status of the eldest lady, the legitimate daughter. Bai Heran, just give up that idea! Humph, you didn't die of illness in eight years. You're really lucky.""However, no matter how lucky you are, your time is up today. Second Miss, don't blame us for being cruel. Blame it on your birth in the Wen Guo Gong Mansion. Blame it on the fact that you still hold the position of the legitimate daughter even after your mother passed away."
The prickling sensation on her back from the needles came again a few times. She wanted to turn around to look, but her body wouldn't move, and her eyes couldn't open.
Only her consciousness remained clear. She could understand every word those two people said, yet when put together, she couldn't make sense of it all.
Before she could think further, another voice came from behind her. "Go to hell! From now on, there will be only one legitimate daughter in the Wen Guo Gong Mansion!" She was pushed from behind, and in front of her was an abyss. D*mn it! When she was halfway through the fall, she suddenly regained the ability to move her whole body and became fully awake.
A flood of memories that didn't belong to her rushed into her mind, accompanied by a sharp, stabbing pain. It was as if she had transformed into another person... In the Dongqin Dynasty, fourteen years ago, Bai Xingyan, the Duke of Wen Guo, had welcomed Princess Chunyu Lan of a vassal state into his mansion with a grand procession of eight palanquins. The following year, Princess Chunyu Lan gave birth to their legitimate daughter, Bai Heran. Later, Chunyu Lan's elder brother failed in his fight for the throne and was imprisoned.
Since then, Chunyu Lan had been in low spirits. The Wen Guo Gong Mansion, which had originally valued Chunyu Lan's status as a princess of a vassal state, was on high alert and quickly divorced her.
They even refused to continue raising their little daughter who was just over two years old. The mother and daughter were left to wander on the streets.
A few months later, Chunyu Lan sent her young daughter back to the entrance of the Wen Guo Gong Mansion, begging Bai Xingyan to raise her, and then she crashed her head against a door pillar and died on the spot. That little girl had been greatly traumatized since then, and her health had always been poor, becoming a disgrace to the Wen Guo Gong Mansion. Three years ago, several young ladies in the mansion caught cold one after another. Rumors spread that Bai Heran was so ill that her sickness might spread to others if she remained in the mansion. So, in the middle of the night, the mansion sent her away from the capital and dumped her at the home of a collateral branch family living in a small northern county, under the pretext of her
recuperating. With all this information pouring in, apart from being astonished, she had only one thought left: Was this... transmigration? Suddenly, the whistling wind in her ears ceased. The cliff reached its bottom, but instead of being smashed into a pulp, she fell into a pool. Bai Heran was startled for a moment, yet it wasn't because there was a hot spring at the bottom of the cliff, but because she had unexpectedly landed in someone's arms.
Unfortunately, that person couldn't catch her properly. She had fallen from such a great height that she slipped through that person's arms like a heavy iron ball and then sank down with a series of gurgling sounds. She could tell that the needles stuck in her back were poisoned, and she could even accurately identify what kind of poison it was.
She even knew that the original owner of this body had died because of this poison. However, now that her soul had taken over, the strange bloodline that had been passed down for thousands of years came with her. This poison meant nothing to her. Instead, the needle pricks on her back made her whole body uncomfortable.The key point was that it wasn't just the needle pricks that were uncomfortable. She wasn't good at swimming, and unfortunately, during her struggle, she accidentally bumped into something she shouldn't have...