In late spring, Huaxi Village is in the busy farming season and villagers are working in the fields.

Beside the river that flows through the village, apart from the chirping of birds and the buzzing of insects, there is almost only the sound of gurgling water - and intermittent cries for help.

The cry for help came from near a pier that spanned the two banks. In the center of the river, a woman struggled in the water. Her black hair, tangled like seaweed, lay across her face, making it difficult to discern her features. But judging by her cries for help, she seemed remarkably young, no more than a teenager.

On the pier, just three steps away from the girl who fell into the water, stood another girl of similar age.

Although the girl on the pier still had some baby fat on her face, her eyes were cruel and vicious. It was hard to believe that a girl of thirteen or fourteen years old could have such a creepy expression.

"In this life, I will never let you become a stumbling block to me, Xu Linlang, again..." She murmured to herself, "It would be best if you disappeared forever."

When the water calmed down, Xu Linlang wiped away the vicious look on her face, replaced by a panicked expression. She rushed towards the villagers busy with their farm work, shouting in a sad and desperate voice: "Help! Help! Someone has jumped into the river!"

'It's so uncomfortable, I feel like I'm suffocating!'

In the darkness, Su Qingluan wanted to call for help, but it felt like she had swallowed a large mouthful of cold water. The instinct for survival made her desperately swing her limbs and swim upwards - she didn't want to die!

Using up her last bit of strength, she swam to the shore, then everything went black and she lost consciousness.

Half asleep and half awake, Su Qingluan felt her body hot and cold, and there seemed to be many figures swaying around her, buzzing something, but she couldn't hear clearly.

After an unknown amount of time, Su Qingluan opened her eyes.

She felt weak and sore all over, and her vision was almost pitch black, with only a faint light swaying gently beside her.

Su Qingluan struggled to turn her head and look towards the light source. She saw a thin woman sitting in the candlelight, mending a dark - robe?

The style of the 'robe' was a bit strange. It was folded in the woman's arms and could not be seen clearly in the dim candlelight, but it did not look like the cheongsam or similar styles of clothes commonly seen on the market.

"Why doesn't this person turn on the lights so late at night...is there a power outage?" Just as Su Qingluan muttered this in her mind, her gaze froze - the cross-collared, right-fronted style of the woman's clothing was clearly the traditional Hanfu style!

Is this cosplay?

Su Qingluan wanted to get up and ask what was going on, but her movement also startled the woman sitting under the candlelight. She turned around at the sound, and her face, which looked friendly and pleasing because of the slight curl of her mouth, was stunned for a moment, and then she burst into surprise: "My dear, you're awake?!"

In a fit of excitement, the needle in the woman's hand pierced her finger, and a bean-sized drop of blood oozed out. However, she seemed not to feel any pain. Still smiling, she hurriedly inserted the needle back into the pin board, leaned forward to touch Su Qingluan's forehead, and then breathed a long sigh of relief: "The fever is finally gone, mother was so scared that she almost lost her soul. Are you hungry? Mother will get you something to eat."

Su Qingluan was bewildered: "...Excuse me, who are you? Where is this place?" Also, she was already 26 years old, and the woman in front of her with tears in her smile looked no more than 30 years old. Why did she call herself "mother"?

The woman's smile froze when she heard this, and she was worried: Oh no, has he become stupid due to the high fever for a few days?

In a blink of an eye, five days had passed since Su Qingluan woke up. Although she still lay in bed most of the time due to her illness, she could now sit up and felt much better.

After repeated confirmations over the past few days, she was certain of one thing: the woman sitting in the candlelight before was not cosplaying, but she had traveled through time.

The family she traveled through was a farming family, consisting of a father, mother and three children.

Su Qingluan's body was that of the family's eldest daughter, Su Daya, who was thirteen years old. She also had a seven-year-old brother, Su Erzhuang, and a younger sister, Su Sanya, who was less than four years old.

My father, Su Guangfu, was a quiet and pragmatic man, who worked on the farm during busy seasons and hunted and worked as a carpenter during slack seasons. My mother, Su Yangshi, was a cheerful and warmhearted woman, who not only helped with the farm work but also did some housework to supplement the family income.

If there is anything unusual about this family compared to other places, it is the unique connection between them and the An Ning Marquis Mansion in the imperial capital.

Normally, such a small farming family would never have had any connection with royalty or nobility. However, twelve years ago, by chance, the two families happened to go to the popular Longjue Temple to pray for fortunes. As they were descending the mountain in the afternoon, they encountered heavy rain and had to huddle together for shelter.

There were so many people around at the time that no one was distinguishing between the noble and the young, and there was chaos. In the panic, Yang and the wet nurse from the An Ning Marquis's mansion took the wrong child.

The next day, Yang Shi discovered that the swaddling clothes were not made of the right material and returned to the place where they had taken shelter from the rain, but she could not find any trace of the baby. Yang Shi had no choice but to take the baby girl home and raise her as her own. It was not until a few days ago that her adopted daughter was reunited with the An Ning Marquisate through the swaddling clothes.

The wet nurse who concealed the truth for fear of being blamed was punished, and the real lady returned to her ancestral home and left in glory. The original fake lady, who had usurped the throne, could not accept her fate of falling from the clouds to the mud for a while, and jumped into the river to commit suicide. This gave Su Qingluan, a lonely soul in another world who had not lived enough, the opportunity to revive by borrowing a corpse.

It is said that the original body jumped into the river, and it was the daughter of the Zhenhou Mansion who found it and called people to rescue it. Moreover, during the days when Su Qingluan had a high fever and was unconscious, she sent servants to visit her twice.

After Su Qingluan regained consciousness, she saw the maid and seemed to recognize her original owner. However, Su Qingluan did not inherit the original owner's memories, and she used the excuse of a "high fever" to cause amnesia. After all, it was not uncommon for people to become stupid or disabled after a high fever for many days, so it was not surprising that she had forgotten everything in her life.

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