Chapter 1 Transmigration and Reincarnation

Lin Yao felt dizzy, as if her head had been hit hard with a heavy hammer, with waves of dull pain hitting her.

She struggled to open her eyes and found herself in a desolate forest, the surroundings eerily quiet.

The ground beneath them was damp and soft, exuding a putrid smell mixed with a faint stench of blood.

Lin Yao remembered that she had just finished fulfilling the client's requirements and was about to go to a barbecue restaurant for a meal, but before she could even finish packing, a sharp pain shot through her heart, her vision went black instantly, and she heard her colleagues' terrified screams. When she woke up again, she was lying in this desolate place.

Her head was throbbing, and memories that weren't hers kept flooding into her mind.

The little girl in her mind who looked similar to her was also named Lin Yao. She was only twelve years old this year. She was tricked by her aunt into becoming someone's concubine. Halfway there, she realized something was wrong and tried to escape, but she lost her life by mistake.

When Aunt Hu went to the market, she heard that the wealthy Hu family in town was sending people to look for young girls and offering a reward of twenty taels of silver. She then had the crooked idea of ​​selling her niece to the old man as a concubine.

In the countryside, an ordinary family's annual expenses are only three or four taels of silver. Twenty taels of silver is enough for a family to live on for five years. Moreover, if this silver is used for a wedding, it is truly a very prestigious affair.

Mrs. Hu has two sons, one eighteen and the other sixteen, but they have not yet married. Hearing about such a good deal, she naturally did not want to let it go.

So, just two hours ago, Hu Shi took advantage of the fact that the original owner's brother was out hunting in the mountains and approached her.

“Ah Yao,” Madam Hu said earnestly, holding her hand, “There is a good family in the county who wants to find a few clever and obedient maids. The work is easy and the wages are high, five hundred coins a month. If you go, you can earn a lot of money to supplement the family income, and your brother won’t have to work so hard.”

Although the original owner was young, she knew that her aunt had always been mean and harsh to her family, but when she heard that she could share her brother's burdens, she hesitated for a moment and then agreed.

However, along the way, the original owner noticed that she looked flustered and walked faster and faster, which gradually aroused her suspicion.

As she passed a deserted corner, the original owner saw several burly men pulling at a young girl not far away. The girl was crying miserably, and she immediately sensed that something was wrong and turned to run away.

Seeing this, Hu grabbed her arm with surprising strength: "You brat, where do you think you're going!"

The original owner struggled desperately, and in the struggle, he tripped over a stone and hit his forehead hard on the stone, causing blood to gush out instantly.

The intense pain blurred the original owner's consciousness. She heard her aunt mutter a curse, "Bad luck," and then felt her body being dragged into the woods.

Before she lost consciousness, she vaguely heard her aunt's hurried footsteps running away.

The poor girl, suffering from chronic malnutrition due to years of hunger, was frail and weak. This ordeal caused her to die quietly here, and they replaced her.

After sorting through the chaotic memories in her mind, Lin Yao felt a pang of sorrow. This was a world where people preyed on each other.

Now that she has been reborn, although she can live a second life, she feels no joy. Perhaps it's because of the little girl who died young, or perhaps it's because of the life she is about to face. She placed her hand on her heart, "Leave all the unfinished business to me, go in peace."

After resting for a while, Lin Yao leaned against a tree trunk and slowly got up, her legs still trembling, and she gritted her teeth in pain. As she walked, she searched through the original owner's memories for information about this era.

This is the end of an ancient, fictional dynasty called the Great Yan. The Great Yan dynasty once enjoyed hundreds of years of prosperity, but now it has entered a turbulent and precarious end.

The world was in complete chaos, with natural disasters and man-made calamities following one after another.

For several years in a row, drought ravaged the land, leaving the people with no harvest. The drought was followed by floods, displacing countless people and causing them to fall ill with disease.

However, at this critical moment, the imperial court turned a blind eye to the suffering of the people, and the relief funds and supplies were delayed, resulting in widespread starvation.

Taxes became increasingly heavy, and officials at all levels added more and more to enrich themselves, making life unbearable for the people under the heavy burden of taxes.

The corvée labor was an unbearable burden on the people.

The imperial court embarked on massive construction projects, building palaces and city walls, creating an almost insane demand for labor. Almost every household had young and able-bodied men forcibly conscripted.

Those conscripted for corvée labor worked in harsh conditions, often going hungry and lacking proper clothing. They also suffered beatings and abuse from their overseers, and many died on the construction sites, their remains never able to return home.

Public discontent was widespread, and the people's dissatisfaction with the imperial court was growing daily. Small-scale uprisings began to break out in some areas, and although they did not gain momentum for the time being, the sparks of rebellion had been quietly ignited.

Meanwhile, in the court, various factions were engaged in open and covert struggles for power, creating chaos. Powerful ministers controlled the government, forming cliques, excluding dissidents, while the emperor indulged in wine and women, neglecting state affairs and allowing the situation to deteriorate step by step.

The neighboring countries also noticed the decline of the Great Yan and began to stir, hoping to get a share of the spoils during this chaotic time.

The entire Great Yan was like a building about to collapse, teetering on the brink of destruction.

The small mountain village where the original owner lived, though remote, was shrouded in gloom. Many able-bodied men in the village had been conscripted, large tracts of farmland lay fallow, and grain harvests decreased year by year, causing widespread anxiety.

The three siblings' father, Lin Changkang, was also taken away for conscription. It wasn't his turn, but Lin Demao was reluctant to let his eldest son join the army, so he forced his second son to take his brother's place.

Six months ago, this group of wounded soldiers who had joined the army were released back to their hometowns. Those who returned said that they had not seen Lin Changkang for long after he joined the army, and that he had probably died on the battlefield long ago.

Upon hearing this news, the original owner's mother, Jia, immediately fainted.

When Lin Demao heard that his second son might have died on the battlefield, he was not saddened at all. Instead, because he did not want to spend money to treat Jia's illness, he immediately started making trouble about dividing the family property.

In this era where filial piety was paramount, Jia and the three Lin siblings harbored resentment but had nowhere to argue. Their grandmother, Zhu, wanted to fight for them, but Lin Demao didn't care at all about what she said.

In the end, Lin Demao only gave them three drafty thatched huts and a bag of coarse rice. The land that the male members were entitled to, the original owner's mother's dowry, and even the dowry that the original owner's father had saved for her were all withheld by Lin Demao.

When Jia heard the news of her husband's disappearance, she had already fainted once and was in poor health. After moving into the drafty thatched hut, she caught a cold, and after taking several doses of medicine, her condition did not improve at all. She passed away a few days later.

After Jia left, she left behind three children struggling to survive.

To pay for Jia's medical treatment, the three siblings spent all the family's copper coins. As their food supplies dwindled, the older brother, Lin Cheng, went to the mountains even more frequently.

Lin Cheng is fifteen years old this year. He learned some hunting skills from his father since he was a child, but he is still young and his harvest is meager every time he goes into the mountains. His family can barely make ends meet.

The original owner also had a younger brother, Lin Song, who was four years old this year. He was chubby-faced and usually well-behaved and sensible, but because he had been hungry since he was a child, his face was sallow and his body was thin and small.

After sorting through the original owner's family relationships, Lin Yao suddenly realized that her previous life, where she lived alone with no ties and no worries, and was a carefree life where she was the only one to feed.

On the other side, half an hour earlier, Lin Cheng had brought down the mountain with a pheasant and a wild rabbit he had hunted that day, hoping to give his younger siblings a good meal. But when he stepped into the house, he couldn't find Lin Yao.

Lin Cheng called out several times, but only Lin Song ran out of the dilapidated thatched hut.

His second sister said she was going to buy him malt candy when she went out today, and told him to stay home and wait patiently, but she didn't show up. He was starting to panic.

The little boy ran to find his brother, and when he saw Lin Cheng, his eyes were already red. He cried out, "Brother, Second Sister is missing! Second Sister said she would buy me malt candy, but I've been waiting for so long and she hasn't come back."

An ominous premonition welled up in Lin Cheng's heart. His family was struggling to even have enough to eat, so where would they get the spare money to buy malt candy? Could it be that his little sister had been tricked by someone?

Lin Cheng abandoned his prey and inquired around the village, asking everyone he met if they had seen Lin Yao, but most of the villagers shook their heads.

Lin Cheng was extremely anxious and searched along the road leading out of the village, calling out Lin Yao's name along the way.

As darkness fell and visibility narrowed, Lin Cheng grew increasingly anxious, continuing his search along the edge of the forest, oblivious to the thorns tearing at his clothes.

Until he found a fallen hairband in a patch of weeds, he recognized it as the one his mother had made for his sister. His heart sank to the bottom, and he quickened his pace to run towards the desolate woods.

At this moment, Lin Yao, after stumbling and struggling all the way, finally emerged from the woods and happened to run into Lin Cheng, who was running into the forest.

When Lin Cheng saw his sister's face covered in blood, her hair disheveled, and her body covered in mud and looking miserable, he didn't have time to think. He immediately rushed forward, carried her on his back, and strode home.

"Ah Yao, don't be afraid, your brother will take you home!" Lin Cheng said anxiously.

On the way home, perhaps because of the blood ties between the siblings, even though Lin Yao had no relation to the boy named Lin Cheng, her body began to relax slowly, her consciousness gradually became hazy, and she fell asleep.

Back in the thatched hut, Lin Cheng carefully placed Lin Yao on the bed and turned to search for herbs.

He often went hunting in the mountains and suffered many injuries, big and small, so he always kept herbs to stop bleeding and reduce swelling at home.

Lin Song stood to the side, her little hands nervously clutching the hem of her clothes, her eyes filled with worry and fear.

He gently blew on the wound on Lin Yao's forehead. His mother had done the same thing when he fell and hurt himself, and she said that blowing on it would make it stop hurting.

Lin Cheng crushed the herbs and gently applied them to the wound on Lin Yao's forehead.

After a while, Lin Yao slowly woke up. As she relaxed, the pain in her body became more pronounced, and her throat was extremely dry. She managed a hoarse whisper: "Water..."

Lin Song, who had been lying on the bedside, heard his sister's voice and immediately ran to the table to pour a glass of water, which he then held to Lin Yao's lips.

Lin Yao drank two bowls of water from the chipped bowl in Lin Song's small hand before she recovered.

After Lin Cheng finished applying the medicine to her, he was processing the game outside when he heard a noise. He immediately put down the game and went inside. Seeing that his sister had finally woken up, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Ayao, what happened today?" Lin Cheng asked. Lin Yao sat up straight, supporting herself on the edge of the bed, and recounted the events of the day under the worried gazes of her two brothers.

Lin Cheng clenched his fists tighter and tighter as he listened, his knuckles turning white. Ever since his father disappeared, his uncle's family had been bullying them in every way, and now they were even thinking of selling his sister. He shouted angrily, "How could my aunt be so vicious! I'm going to settle accounts with her!" He then turned to rush out.

Lin Yao quickly grabbed him and said weakly, "Brother, we have no evidence, we have no proof. She will definitely deny it and may even turn around and accuse us. Let's find another opportunity later."

Lin Cheng gritted his teeth and finally nodded, helping Lin Yao lie down to rest.

The room was dark and damp. Lin Yao lay on the shabby bed, her head still fuzzy, but her mind was racing.

In this chaotic world, you still have to rely on yourself to survive.

Since fate has brought her here, it can't be to make her die again. She must be able to find a way to survive.

A note from the author:

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I highly recommend my upcoming novel, "The Evil Woman Fears the Persistent Man" (a food-themed detective story)! Wow! [droopy-eared rabbit head]

A strange case suddenly occurred in Yuhang County

A thrush killed seven people, leaving only half a footprint at the scene;

The corpse-carrying driver screamed in terror as the burly man in the coffin transformed into a woman in red.

A virgin awaiting marriage has been impersonated; where is the mastermind hiding behind this?

Hua Linlang transmigrated and became the most beautiful woman in Yuhang County, a family with immense wealth.

Unfortunately, her parents died unexpectedly, leaving her an orphan girl who was coveted by the entire clan and awaited to be devoured.

Hua Linlang: ...It's not a big problem.

He's a modern forensic scientist and criminal psychology double champion, and although he accidentally got himself into trouble, he brought all his skills with him.

While investigating the case, I'll also take the opportunity to revitalize our family business and expand our restaurants and eateries nationwide!

The newly appointed county magistrate, Ji Huai, was full of vigor and had a knack for solving cases.

He initially considered Hua Linlang the prime suspect, but she meticulously unraveled the mystery in front of him, revealing the secrets of the case in a single sentence.

From then on, he investigated cases, and she performed autopsies; he hunted down criminals, and she profiled them.

He was working overtime on an empty stomach, and she thoughtfully handed him a bowl of osmanthus-flavored rice wine.

Ji Huai was deeply moved; how could he possibly miss such a wonderful man!

The person in front of me had a captivating gaze, and she and he were truly a match made in heaven!

The next moment, Liangren parted her lips slightly: "Three taels a bowl, Ji Lang, cash or on the tab?"

Ji Huai: .....

Everyone says Hua Linlang is a femme fatale, but Ji Huai feels that if this "femme fatale" can stay for him, he would be happy to accept it.

He looked at her calm profile as she performed the autopsy and asked softly:

"Hua Linlang, besides cases and money, is there anything else in your world?"

Flower Beauty: "For example?"

Ji Huai: "Me."

Flower Beauty: "Get lost."

Ji Huai: "See you later."

Male protagonist's self-conquest strategy

Initial thought: "She must have something on her mind."

Later: He trapped her in a small space, his hot breath brushing against her ear: "Linlang, what you really want is me."