A thousand years ago, there was the Western Qin Kingdom on the Lingkong Continent (the Lingkong Continent was divided into four kingdoms: Dongning, Nan'an, Western Qin, and Beilie).
Thunder rumbled through the night, and torrential rain poured down, with flashes of lightning occasionally streaking across the night sky.
Suddenly, a blinding light descended from the sky. Even in the pitch-black night, the light could still be seen, resembling a seven-colored phoenix soaring majestically through the night, its head held high, searching for something.
In an instant, it seemed to have found its target. It spread its magnificent phoenix wings and swooped down, disappearing into the pavilion in the backyard of the Yi family mansion without a trace.
Then the wind stopped, the rain stopped, and the lightning stopped...
"Miss, Miss, please wake up! What will happen to Yan'er if you don't wake up?"
"Waaaaah...waaaah...waaaah..."
A little maid was crying and shaking her young master's arm as he lay on the couch.
The unconscious young lady was none other than Yi Shangyun, the eldest daughter of Yi Shangkun, the pharmacist of the Imperial Pharmacy of the Western Qin Kingdom.
A year ago, he fell into a coma due to illness and has not woken up since. The Yi family has consulted almost all the famous doctors in the country, but none of them could do anything about it.
The Yi family is clearly ready to give up on this ugly, weak, and incompetent young lady.
As the little girl began to sob, Yi Shangyun seemed to hear it faintly, and her eyes began to roll frantically, trying to open them wide...
Finally, her vision gradually cleared. When she saw the strange and peculiar illusion around her, she tried with difficulty to prop herself up with her arms, but found that her unusually heavy body simply wouldn't obey her commands.
But the little girl in front of her was staring at her with a blank look in her eyes, her arms still tightly wrapped around hers as before.
"Where is this?"
"Who are you?"
What happened?
Why did she wake up here? Wasn't she in her own apartment? Why are all these old-fashioned wooden buildings and styles all around her?
Besides the girl who called herself Yan'er, there were two other young girls, dressed similarly and looking a little younger than her, standing in the room.
Yi Shangyun carefully observed all of this.
Suddenly, Yan'er released her hands from Yi Shangyun's arms and asked in surprise, "Miss, what's wrong? Don't you remember? You really don't remember anything?"
"Miss must be a little unfamiliar with you because she's been unconscious for too long!" Yan'er scratched her head, staring at her with wide eyes, and muttered to herself in astonishment.
After a while, seeing that Yi Shangyun still looked blank, she introduced herself to her and said, "I am Yan'er. This is Mingyue Pavilion, Miss. You have been unconscious for almost a year. What happened to you?"
"I...Miss...I...I've been in a coma for a year?" Yi Shangyun's mind went blank.
Yan'er nodded vigorously at him: "Just now, Master sent someone to say that since Miss is not yet married, he originally wanted to find you a man who died in the same way to form a ghost marriage so that you could be reborn. However, because Miss was rejected in a previous engagement, no one is willing to marry her, and they are preparing to... to abandon your body in the wilderness."
As Yan'er spoke, she started crying again: "Waaah...waaah...waaah..."
She cried and wiped away her tears, but her sobs clearly contained less of the anxiety and worry she had shown before.
At this moment, Yi Shangyun was still deeply immersed in the fragments of her time travel: "Could time travel really exist? Are there really parallel universes that people can't reach even in their entire lives, but I have?"
She felt that the more she thought about it, the more her head ached, and the less she could bear it.
Her brows were furrowed, her eyes tightly shut, as she desperately tried to recall and piece together these fragmented memories that were drifting and scattering between herself and the original owner of the body...
In 21st-century Shanghai, his beloved Wei Mingxuan, who has been missing for 13 years, remains at large. Suffering from a tumor and about to undergo surgery, she collapses in her apartment. A blinding light flashes, followed by the wall that has appeared in her countless dreams...
The original owner of this body also had the same name, Yi Shangyun, was 17 years old, ugly, useless, weak, and easily bullied by everyone...
"Oh, by the way, Miss has woken up. There's no need for a burial. Miss, I'll go and inform Master and Madam right away."
Yan'er excitedly finished speaking and ran towards the door, completely ignoring the fact that Yi Shangyun was caught in this painful struggle.
In the blink of an eye, she led in a group of strangers who were in a hurry.
The first to speak was a man around forty years old, wearing a gray-white robe, with a short beard and his black hair half-tied up. Her memories told her that he was none other than Yi Shangkun, the original owner's father and a pharmacist at the Imperial Pharmacy of the Western Qin Kingdom.
"Now that you're awake, stay in the manor."
He woke up right after being rejected by the Lu family, neither early nor late. Yi Shangkun pondered to himself and sighed heavily. His brows were furrowed and he looked worried the whole time. He threw down these words, flicked his sleeve, snorted, and hurriedly rushed out the door.
Next, the woman next to him, dressed in extremely plain clothes but seemingly kind, was the original owner's mother, Nian Shi.
Although she was Yi Shangkun's legal wife, she was not favored in the Yi family because she had no family to rely on and only had one daughter, Yi Shangyun, with no other children.
Seeing her husband leave, Madam Nian hurriedly wiped away her tears and rushed over to sit down beside Yi Shangyun's bed, saying, "Yun'er, you're finally awake. I'm so sorry, I couldn't protect you properly, and you've suffered so much." She then continued wiping away her tears. Yi Shangyun was now intently observing and listening to the words and actions of this former owner of the body's mother...
"Oh my, young lady, you've finally woken up. And you've woken up just in time. If it had been past tonight, I'm afraid you wouldn't have been able to wake up even if you wanted to. What a misfortune for the family, the Yi family is ruined because of you... sigh."
The one who spoke these words while dressed in bold and flamboyant attire was none other than Yi Shangyun's second aunt—Aunt Lan.
Standing beside her were her arrogant son, Yi Shangjun, and her willful and spoiled daughter, Yi Shangxue.
The mother and her two children were truly of one mind; they all glared at Yi Shangyun with disdain, gave a contemptuous snort, and then dispersed.
Yi Shangyun then turned her gaze back to the original owner's mother and said, "Mother, don't be sad. It's all Yun'er's fault for making you worry."
As Yi Shangyun spoke, she took out her embroidered handkerchief to wipe away the woman's tears, and Nian Shi took the opportunity to hug Yi Shangyun tightly.
Now, the original owner has been replaced by this 21st-century soul. She believes this woman also loves the original owner. In any case, in this time and space, perhaps this woman will be her only support...
After a long while, everyone finally dispersed. Yan'er tucked the blanket around Yi Shangyun, slowly lowered the pale purple curtains, gently closed the door, and retreated.
At this moment, Yi Shangyun couldn't sleep. She got up, put on a light blue coat, and walked out of the pavilion to look around. Finally, she sat down at the stone table in the Misty Rain Pavilion in the northwest corner of the courtyard, and looked up towards her pavilion...
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