Zhen Tian felt much better; she was no longer dizzy, but her head still felt a little lightheaded.
"Go to sleep. I'll stay here with you."
Ji Yuzhi gently patted the blanket, like coaxing a child to sleep.
"Okay." Zhen Tian secretly stretched out a small hand from under the covers, grabbed Ji Yuzhi's hand, and then closed her eyes contentedly.
Ji Yuzhi grasped her hand and rubbed his thumb on it.
***
Looking at the crowds and traffic around her, Zhen Tian felt a little dazed. Wasn't she asleep, feeling dizzy? Where was she?
She walked forward a bit, and two tall iron gates came into view.
"Am I dreaming?" She grabbed the iron gate with both hands and shook it.
"This door is so heavy."
It wouldn't budge at all. Zhen Tian pouted, her gaze inadvertently falling on the hand gripping the iron railing.
"Ah!" she cried out in terror, twitching her fingers. The hand on the iron gate moved in response. "What's going on? Just one? Just one!"
The small hand gripping the railing suggests that its owner is probably a young child.
Zhen Tian touched her face with her hand and looked around for a reflective spot.
There was a puddle of water not far away, which Zhen Tian spotted at a glance. Without a moment's hesitation, she ran over to it.
The water rippled, and in the ripples she saw a child of about seven or eight years old, who looked a lot like her when she was a child, yet with a slightly different appearance. At that moment, many images flashed through her mind.
This is her, and she has lived in the orphanage for eight years. This has been her home since she can remember.
Yes, that's her.
Zhen Tian seemed to have almost forgotten that distant memory.
When she was eight years old, she sneaked out to play with the older children in the orphanage, but they thought she was a burden and told her to wait for them at a certain place, saying they would pick her up and go back together after they finished playing.
She waited there until dark, but no one came back for her. Terrified, she groped her way back to the orphanage. But she was too young to walk the long distance back to the remote orphanage. Exhausted, she leaned against a tree and fell asleep. When she opened her eyes again, she found herself at the Zhen family's house.
Zhen Tian remembered everything about herself clearly, even feeling a sense of closeness to her parents. In a daze, she thought her life in the orphanage was a dream. After all, she was young and had the care and attention of her parents. She had almost forgotten that dreamlike story.
But now she's Zhen Tian, a first-year high school student. Could that past, which seems like a dream, actually be real?
How did she come to be with her parents?
While Zhen Tian stood there thinking.
The teacher in charge of the orphanage came over and said, "Niu Niu, come here. A kind person has donated a batch of new books. Go and take a look with the other children."
Zhen Tian was led away by her. She remembered it because she had been overjoyed for a long time because of that batch of new books.
Following her memory, she stood behind a group of children and waited until they had all grabbed the new books before walking to the old bookshelf.
One of the books seemed to be drawing her to get it.
Because the book was placed quite high, none of the children noticed it. But Zhen Tian didn't know why the book was the first thing she saw.
She moved a small stool, took the book down, sat on the stool, and opened the book.
"It's a comic book." She flipped through the pages casually, some familiar yet vaguely remembered content catching her eye.
Zhen Tian flipped through many pages, and just as she was about to close the book, the main character finally appeared. Zhen Tian glanced at it again, and this glance was quite something.
She actually saw Ye Qingyan's name inside.
Ye Qingyan is the protagonist of this comic book.
Zhen Tian's head buzzed. She didn't even know how she had turned the pages of that book, as the contents gradually appeared in her mind. They even overlapped with the experiences of the girl in real life.
By the time Zhen Tian was able to start thinking, she had already finished reading the comic book.
Let's look at the title of the comic book: "The Queen and Her Harem".
The title of the comic book had a very old-fashioned feel to it; she had read many of them before.
However, this book actually included all the love stories Ye Qingyan had just told her about with her tutor.
The comic book is divided into volumes. This series has five volumes in total. The first volume ends with the tutor rejecting her.
Zhen Tian was so shocked that she didn't know what to say.
She frantically searched the bookshelf, hoping to collect the book. Fortunately, fate smiled upon her, and Zhen Tian read them all in one go after finding them.
Closing the book, she felt as if her entire worldview had been shattered.
Starting from the second book, the following four books all depict Ye Qingyan's personality changing drastically after suffering heartbreak, to the point that she begins to pursue her career, achieving great success in her career, and her love life becomes even more colorful, with countless men liking her, and some even willing to share her with other men for her sake.
For the first time, Zhen Tian showed an expression of disbelief. She seemed to understand the description her classmates used to give her, which was like eating shit.
This isn't the most disgusting part; the most disgusting part is the ending. The female lead is inexplicably going to die, and the men who loved her to death reveal their true colors—they were all after her money.
In the end, the female protagonist died, and those men divided everything she owned, even her honors.
"This is... a failed project?" Zhen Tian's cheeks twitched twice.
She carelessly tossed the book on the floor and leaned her small body against the bookshelf.
In this book, she saw a girl with the same name as Ye Qingyan appear briefly as a classmate, but she was just a background character. Shao Junli and Yang Feiguang appeared a few times, but Zhizhi, her brothers, uncles, and even her parents did not appear.
Zhen Tian leaned against the wall, and she began to doubt herself.
Did she transmigrate into that comic book, or...?
Are all these memories—those about Zhizhi and her family—just a dream?
Did she imagine it after reading this comic book?
Is it possible that Zhizhi doesn't exist in this world at all, that she has no parents, no loving brothers or uncles? She's just an unwanted orphan, she's never been to school, let alone had friends like Ye Qingyan and Yuan Yuan.
Zhen Tian became more and more frightened as she thought about it. She huddled in that corner and flipped through the book again and again. She even pinched herself hard to see if she was dreaming.
I felt nothing.
But she dared not be happy.
Because she herself is someone who cannot feel pain.
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