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Chapter 01
Rumble——
Rumble——
Continuous loud noises echoed in Gu Yanfei's ears.
Her eardrums were buzzing, while the ground beneath her was shaking violently.
A heart piercing pain shot through her limbs, as if a carriage was running over her.
Gu Yanfei opened her eyes with difficulty. Blood covered her left eye like a veil and her vision was blurry.
Gray dust filled the air.
The surroundings were in chaos. The narrow and dilapidated carriage was crumbling.
"Second Miss..."
A low moan entered into Gu Yanfei's ears. It was weak and feeble.
This female voice was so familiar yet not.
Gu Yanfei's pupils shrank and her body trembled slightly.
She slowly turned her head to look. There was a girl of thirteen or fourteen years old wearing an emerald green dress lying on her right. Her hair was in a messy bun, and one arm was protectively wrapped around Gu Yanfei's waist.
The girl in green clothes was facing down. Her face couldn't be seen clearly. Still. Gu Yanfei was sure just from the figure.
It was Juan Bi! Her former maid Juan Bi!
The pain in her body reminded her that what she was seeing wasn't an illusion or a dream.
She actually came back! From the Yao Ling Realm back to this Great Jing Dynasty! Back to her previous life!
In her previous life, she only lived for a short period of ten or so years. It wasn't until her death that she realized that she was just a cannon fodder female supporting character in the novel ‘The Journey of the Phoenix’.
Her short life was a joke.
She was obviously the legitimate daughter of the Dingyuan Marquis Manor and should have been the apple of her parents' eyes. But as soon as she was born, she was secretly swapped and resulted in her growing up in poverty.
It wasn't until she was fourteen years old that the Marquis Manor found out the truth about the real and fake daughter's swap and sent the managing attendant to Huaibei to bring her back.
Back then, she was full of longing for her blood relatives and traveled thousands of miles to the capital. What she didn't know was that there was no place for her in the Marquis Manor.
The fake daughter Gu Yunkuang who grew up in the Marquis Manor instead of her grew up amidst the Gu Family’s doting. She was the heart and soul of the Gu Family and the female lead of this novel.
As the female lead, Gu Yunkuang wasn't only the daughter of luck, but also resourceful, self-respecting and self-loving. She was well-known in the capital and had attracted many young talents to fall in love with her. The male lead, King Kang, had a special liking for her. The two have gone through many twists and turns. In the end, the lovers finally got married.
In contrast, Gu Yanfei, who grew up in the countryside, was dull and ignorant. She had nothing but the blood of the Gu Family. Her existence seemed to be just to set off the otherworldliness of the female lead.
The past events in the really distant memory flashed quickly in Gu Yanfei's mind...
In her previous life, she had a short-life. She got schemed, framed, and trampled on by others... She was the stepping stone for Gu Yunchun to reach the top.
In the end, she ended up dead by thousands of arrows piercing her heart.
After her death, her soul wandered in the world, helplessly watching the decline of the Gu Family, watching Gu Yunkuang help King Kang win the imperial power struggle, King Kang ascended the throne as emperor, Gu Yunkuang was appointed as the empress as the phoenix to the world.
Gu Yanfei was just a ghost. She could only watch and can't do anything...
Later, she finally reincarnated, taking the memories of that life with her to the Yao Ling Realm.
The Yao Ling Realm was completely different from the world in the first life. It was a cultivation world full of spiritual energy. There were also cultivators who rely on spiritual energy to practice. Gu Yanfei became a cultivator and a medical practitioner.
In the blink of an eye, it was two hundred years. After she finally reached the max of the golden elixir and was heading to Nascent Soul, her inner demons broke out and she was struck back to her first life by the ninth thunder.
She never thought that she could actually come back to ‘this day’ when she was fourteen!
She still remembers ‘this day’. How could she ever forget it!!
At this time, she had left Huaibei and had yet to arrive in the capital. The managing attendant left her in Danyang City halfway, declaring that she should learn the rules and propriety first.
She stayed in Danyang City for three full months. During this period, the maid who served her was Juan Bi.
She clearly remembered that in the afternoon of that day, the carriage she was riding in encountered a landslide and fell from a cliff hundreds of feet high. Both the carriage and the horse were destroyed. She was the only one in the carriage who survived by chance.
Back then, she thought it was just a sad accident. What she didn't know was that all this was carefully planned by the Yingguo’s Heir Fang Mingfeng to take her life.
Just because the person he liked was the fake daughter Gu Yunkuang. But due to family interests, he had to get engaged to her, Gu Yanfei.
Since he couldn't resist his family, he could only pinch the soft persimmon.
‘Soft persimmon’ Gu Yanfei pursed her lips and sat up despite the discomfort in her body. There was a violent surge of blood in her heart, which seemed to be overwhelming.
After she was reincarnated into the Yao Ling Realm, she couldn't let it go. Gradually, the unfulfilled wishes and regrets in this life became her inner demons.
Even though many past events became blurred and irrelevant over the long years, the ‘inner demon’ still existed in her heart.
Probably because of this, she failed to break through the Nascent Soul...
Probably because of this, Heaven brought her back to this life.
Since this was so, she should accept it.
Gu Yanfei quickly adjusted her breathing and quickly calmed down. Her eyes were dark.
"Juan Bi!" She shouted, while quickly turning Juan Bi's petite body around and letting her lie flat on the wool rug.
What caught her eyes was Juan Bi's somewhat naive round face. It was as pale as paper and her plump lips faintly glowed with a grayish purple. A few strands of black hair stained with blood and dust scattered messily on her face.
Her breathing was extremely weak. The twitching between the wings of her nose was barely visible. A mouthful of bright red blood overflowed from her lips, flowing down her chin and neck, as if she would die in the next moment.
Gu Yanfei placed three fingers firmly on Juan Bi's wrist and concentrated on feeling the weak and slow pulse under her fingers.
Juan Bi not only suffered external injuries, but also suffered multiple fractures. Her spleen was bleeding. She was one step into the death door. Even if Hua Tuo was reincarnated, there would be nothing he could do.
In her previous life, Juan Bi died.
She couldn't save Juan Bi, could only watch the other person take her last breath and burst into tears.
Tears couldn't save anyone.
Gu Yanfei pursed her lips, quickly tore off a strip from a book nearby, bit her finger, forced out the blood, and drew a series of weird runes like earthworms on the strip of paper all in one go.
Then, she gently patted the rune on Juan Bi's Baihui point and uttered four words slowly:
"Juan Bi, wake up."
In this narrow space, her voice was ethereal and sacred, like the sound of nature.
As the words fell, a bright orange flame suddenly ignited in the corner of the talisman paper written in blood and burned out in the blink of an eye.
"..." Juan Bi's closed eyelids trembled. Her eyelashes fluttered slightly and a low moan escaped from her mouth.
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