Chapter 1: Crossing, Exile

"Brother, do you think she is really dead?"

"Well, Daddy said that if there is no breath, then it means death."

"That's great. This way my brother and I won't be sold."

Before Su Ying opened her eyes, two childish voices came to her ears.

She struggled to open her eyes a little and saw two dirty, skinny children. Because they were so thin, the beautiful phoenix eyes on their little faces looked especially big.

What happened? She survived the battleship explosion?

As she was confused, her head suddenly ached and a memory that did not belong to her suddenly flooded into her mind.

Su Ying never imagined that the explosion of the battleship would squeeze her into the gap of time and space, causing her spirit to travel to a strange country in a parallel space, the State of Chu.

And now she is on the road to exile.

Su Ying opened her eyes completely and saw the two children jumped up with fear on their faces and turned around and ran away.

"Wow, Daddy, help me, the bad woman is awake again."

"Don't be afraid, sister. I will protect you."

Su Ying: “…”

From memory, I learned that the original owner was also called Su Ying, and she was the eldest daughter of the Prime Minister of Chu State’s original wife. Over the years, she was raised as a fool by her stepmother and deceived by a scumbag, which led to her husband and twin children being exiled to the northern wilderness.

On the way to exile, the original owner was so hungry that she wanted to sell her two children for some money because the silver she had secretly brought with her had been used up. However, when she went to hug the two children, she was pushed down by the struggling children, and her head hit the ground and she died.

Su Ying spat and cursed in her heart, "You deserved it."

Su Ying stood up. When she arrived in an unfamiliar environment, she would habitually observe everything around her first. She was surrounded by exiled prisoners, among whom were a few officers who were sitting not far away and eating dried meat in their hands.

The prisoners could only watch helplessly. They only had one meal a day, and that was dry rations that were too hard to chew. But even so, the dry rations as big as a fist could make the hungry prisoners' eyes light up.

"hiss"

There was a sharp pain in her head, and she reached out to wipe the back of her head. Her palm was wet, but the bleeding had stopped, so there was nothing serious for the time being.

The injuries Su Ying had suffered on the battlefield in the past were much more serious than this, but she didn't care and just tore a piece of rag from her body to bandage the wound.

In a blink of an eye, Su Ying saw the two children hiding under a big tree, and under the tree was a man lying, his life or death unknown.

She walked over, and the children trembled with fear when they saw her. Their little faces turned pale and they clutched the man's sleeves tightly.

"You, you bad woman, don't come over here." Dabao, with a dirty face but an extremely determined expression, stood in front of his sister with his small body. Even though he was extremely scared, he had no intention of backing down.

Erbao was so scared that his voice choked, "Daddy, Daddy, please wake up, the bad woman is going to bully us."

The scene of the original owner treating the two children harshly kept flashing through Su Ying's mind. The children, who should have grown up in an environment of luxury, were now being treated in such an inhuman way.

The original owner planned to sell the two children for two taels of silver. In the army, one tael of silver could be exchanged for three days of dry food from the officials. In this environment, why would the other party exchange several days of dry food for two children?

Su Ying looked at the man who was staring at her not far away. The dried blood on his mouth was still clearly visible, and the child who had been with him two days ago was gone.

Exchange children for food.

She was in a military camp in the apocalypse and was used to bloody and brutal fights, but she didn't expect to encounter such a thing in this place.

Su Ying looked at the fear and determination in the children's eyes, and her heart was touched. They were very much like herself who was thrown into the refining field where people were eaten without leaving any bones when she was young.

"I won't sell you out."

"You're lying. You said that before and you almost sold your sister!"

Su Ying's mind instantly appeared the scene where the original owner used half a piece of dry food to trick his little daughter under the tree the day before and was about to hand her over to the man.

Su Ying was too lazy to despise the original owner.

She lowered her eyes to look at the man on the ground. This was her adopted husband, King Xiao Jin of the State of Chu.

Under his messy long hair were a pair of deeply twisted sword-like eyebrows. Even without opening his eyes, Su Ying could imagine the pair of bottomless eyes under the thin eyelids. His thin lips were tightly pursed under his high nose, indicating that he was now in great pain.

Who could have imagined that the King of Qi, who had made great military achievements, would become like this.

Su Ying squatted down and found that his legs were the most seriously injured. They were a mess of blood and flesh, and there was a foul smell under the torn and dirty cloth.

She raised her hand and was about to check his injuries, but before she could get her hand halfway out, it was tightly grasped by two small hands.

It’s Dabao.

"What are you going to do to Daddy? You are not allowed to touch Daddy."

The battle in the end times required a quick victory, which made her anxious and impatient. Her brows jumped, but when she met the tears in those big eyes, the anger in her heart was instantly extinguished.

"I want to check his injuries. If he is not treated in time, he will die."

Although the two children are young, they have experienced more than other children. During this journey of exile, they have deeply understood what death means.

"I don't want daddy to die. Daddy can't die." Erbao's voice was filled with tears.

"Don't cry, he won't die as long as I'm here." Su Ying tried her best to make her body sound gentler, but the children didn't believe her at all.

"It's all your fault, you bad woman. If it weren't for you, Daddy wouldn't have gotten hurt." Erbao tried hard to hold back his tears, his big pupils full of accusations.

Su Ying was ashamed. When Xiao Jin was seriously injured and unconscious on the battlefield, "she" took advantage of Xiao Jin's coma to hide evidence that slandered Xiao Jin for colluding with the enemy country in his study, and someone found it red-handed. Otherwise, Xiao Jin would not have been wrongfully imprisoned.

There is no point in thinking about these things now. The most urgent task is to treat Xiao Jin's injuries, otherwise he will die soon.

Su Ying broke free from the little hands and began to check the wound on Xiao Jin's leg.

The two little ones stared at Su Ying vigilantly to prevent her from doing anything bad to their father.

Su Ying lifted the rag on Xiao Jin's legs and found that the injuries on his legs were more serious than they looked. In addition to his legs, he had other injuries of varying sizes on his body, but the most fatal were his two legs.

In the examination room, Su Ying suddenly felt a burning sensation on her wrist. She looked down and saw a wooden bracelet with a strange totem engraved on it suddenly appeared on her blank wrist. She stared in astonishment. Isn't this her storage space?

In the end times, many supplies were in extreme shortage. Except for medicine, which was still developing strongly, food items were basically in short supply. So on weekdays, she would store the necessary items in the storage space in case of emergency. Unexpectedly, this thing followed her to the other world.

Su Ying looked around, walked behind a big tree, and then pressed the mechanism on the bracelet to enter the space.

A white light flashed, and space appeared in front of her. The neatly arranged shelves had everything. She walked around the shelves and opened another door. Medical supplies were stored here.

She took out medicine and gauze from a small drawer, then came out and took two compressed biscuits similar to dry food from the shelf, and then left the space.

When she came out, the two children were nowhere to be seen. She didn't think much about it and just treated Xiao Jin's injuries first.

Just as Su Ying was about to take action, she felt a murderous gaze falling on her. She looked up vigilantly and met a pair of bottomless black eyes.

(End of this chapter)