the truth
When Huang Ying saw that her face had turned red, she was so frightened that she quickly patted her back and patted her back to help her catch her breath, which finally stopped her coughing.
"...I almost choked to death!" Jiang Yan was terrified. She picked up the tea Huang Ying had given her, took a big gulp, and then said, "You said I ate Shangguan Zeyu's... breakfast?"
"Yes, Your Highness. But don't worry, the Prince has already left the residence and doesn't know."
Jiang Yan sighed with relief; "Don't do this kind of thing again!" She didn't want to be flogged or have her head chopped off for a bite to eat!
Huang Ying didn't understand what she was thinking, and just responded with a nod.
Her stomach was still not full, and she looked at the leftover bun, swallowed, picked it up and ate it again.
Huang Ying stood quietly to her right, watching her eat without blinking.
Although she was eating a little better than before, she still didn't look like a lady from a respectable family. Even girls from ordinary families were more elegant and refined than her.
Therefore, after observing her carefully for a while, Huang Ying asked, "Master, where did you put the folding fan that Young Master Wang gave you?"
Jiang Yan was savoring the deliciousness of the steamed bun and didn't take her question to heart, casually replying to it.
"It's in the bundle, go find it yourself."
Huang Ying's brows furrowed immediately, and her expression turned serious.
She then tentatively asked, "Master, what about the book that Young Master Liu gave you?"
"A book? I think there is one, it's in the bundle too, go find it yourself." Jiang Yan didn't feel any burden at all, and then contentedly drank her tea.
At this moment, Huang Ying's suspicions about her had reached their peak.
Without saying a word, she rushed to the door, and then, under Jiang Yan's puzzled gaze, asked sharply.
Who exactly are you?
Jiang Yan was momentarily stunned and said, "Who else could I be? Your young lady! Oh no, now I'm your master."
But Huang Ying's eyes were sharp and her expression tense as she said, "You're not!!! You're not my mistress!! Who are you?"
Jiang Yan didn't answer her immediately this time. Instead, he looked at her calmly for a long while before suddenly laughing.
You noticed?
"You really aren't my mistress?! Where is my mistress?" Huang Ying was suddenly terrified, her eyes no longer as calm as before, and she began to look around erratically.
Jiang Yan decided to drop the pretense, smiled, took a sip of tea, and asked, "When did you figure that out?"
Huang Ying paused for a moment, then said, "Miss is of refined character and never shouts or wolfs down her food. Moreover, Miss doesn't know any Young Master Wang or Young Master Liu at all, and they haven't given Miss any folding fans or books!"
Jiang Yan smiled with satisfaction and said, "So you're not stupid after all!"
"Where is my mistress? What have you done to her? Why are you impersonating her?"
"You're asking so many questions at once, which one should I answer?"
Huang Ying: "Where is my mistress?"
"I don't know. I was inside her body when I arrived. She didn't speak to me, and I couldn't feel her presence."
"...What do you mean?" Huang Ying was extremely confused, as if she were listening to gibberish.
Jiang Yan remained patient and continued to explain, "My name is Jiang Yan, and I am from thousands of years in the future. I am not from this country! I don't know why I came here! Also, I only came with my soul, not my body."
Huang Ying was stunned for a moment, but she quickly calmed down and said with a particularly firm attitude.
"You're talking nonsense!!! How can a person's soul leave their body? You must have killed my mistress, right?" Huang Ying said, her eyes reddening.
Jiang Yan wanted to laugh but couldn't. In fact, what Huang Ying said was exactly what she had been suspecting.
She doesn't cultivate immortality, nor is she a deity, so how could her soul and body separate? Moreover, she traveled through time and space to this Zhou Kingdom?
But the truth is that her soul and body really did separate, and she ended up in this strange Zhou Kingdom!
"You won't believe it if I tell you, and I won't believe it either, but the thing is, it's true, and I'm not lying to you."
Huang Ying stood blankly at the door, her eyes red, her nose red, looking at her with a wronged and reproachful expression.
Jiang Yan felt a little guilty and looked away from her: "I can prove it to you however you want, because that might explain my confusion."
But after a while, Huang Ying asked, "When did you arrive?"
Jiang Yan replied without hesitation, "I came the day your young lady woke up after falling into the water. Think carefully, didn't I keep saying, 'I'm wrong, I'm not Liu Ruyi, I'm not. I want to go back, I want to go home.'"
Huang Ying seemed to remember the events of that day very clearly, so when Jiang Yan mentioned it, she responded.
"This servant remembers, but... this servant truly cannot understand, how could you not be this servant's mistress? You look exactly like this servant's mistress!"
"That's why I already answered you: my soul has taken over your young lady's body."
"Where is my maid's soul? Has it taken over your body?"
Jiang Yan sighed and fell into deep thought: "I don't know. I don't know if she swapped bodies with me, or perhaps..."
"Or what should I say?"
Jiang Yan smiled bitterly and looked at her again: "Who knows? I don't know either." Perhaps she and I are both dead.
Huang Ying's tears immediately welled up in her eyes and rolled down her face.
Jiang Yan looked at her bitterly for a while, and was about to comfort her and tell her not to be sad, when she suddenly saw her eyes light up and she looked at her warily.
"You are... a foreigner?"
"What foreigner? I'm definitely not from this country." Jiang Yan was a little confused.
Huang Ying's vigilance surged instantly: "You are the enemy! You are a spy!! This servant must report to the Prince!!" She said, and was about to run out.
It was only then that Jiang Yan belatedly realized that Huang Ying had linked her with those "enemy country elements," and she was immediately terrified, turning pale as she hurriedly chased after her.
"Wait, I'm not, I'm not!"
Jiang Yan caught up with Huang Ying at the door at the fastest speed she had ever used.
"You've misunderstood, you've misunderstood. I'm not, I'm not an enemy." Jiang Yan had never run so fast in her life, and her heart was pounding so hard she could hardly bear it.
Seeing that her face was pale and her lips were white, Huang Ying quickly supported her body as she was about to slide down and helped her lean against a pear tree.
"What’s wrong with you?"
Jiang Yan wanted to tell her that it was because her young lady's body was too weak, so weak that she would almost die after running only a few steps!
But when she thought of her loyalty to her mistress and her intense reaction just now, she reluctantly took all the blame upon herself.
"I am physically weak. I have always been physically weak."
But Huang Ying asked again, "You said I misunderstood you? What did I misunderstand you about? Explain yourself!"
Jiang Yan was panting heavily, but she didn't dare keep Huang Ying waiting for too long. After all, if Huang Ying ran away again, she wouldn't be able to catch up even if she risked her life.
"To tell you the truth, I am not a person of this era, nor a person of any country or ethnicity in this era! My country is the People's Republic of China, and I am Han Chinese. In the place where I live, everyone is equal. There are skyscrapers, cars, airplanes, and cannons. Girls there receive a good education, unlike the kind of women in this era who are admired for their lack of virtue."
Huang Ying was speechless, staring at her with wide eyes, not blinking.
"What I said is absolutely true, I am not lying to you."
Huang Ying looked at her incredulously for a while and said, "I'll believe you if you swear to God."
Swear to God?
What's so difficult about that?
"Okay, I swear to God..."
“I will say something, and you will repeat it.”
Jiang Yan felt no one was going to object, so she agreed.
Huang Ying: "I, Jiang Yan, swear to Heaven."
"I, Jiang Yan, swear to Heaven."
Oriole: "If I were to tell a lie..."
"If you tell a lie."
Oriole: "To die alone."
"To die alone."
Oriole: "May you die a horrible death."
Jiang Yan felt a strange unease. Was this oath really that vicious? Although she genuinely believed she hadn't lied to her, was there something she didn't know?
"Are you scared?" Huang Ying asked.
Jiang Yan feigned magnanimity: "Afraid? If you have nothing to hide, what is there to be afraid of?" "If I, Jiang Yan, were to lie to you, I would die alone and suffer a terrible death. Is that enough?"
"Hmm." Huang Ying gradually calmed down, but then asked, "So how are you going to get back to your hometown?"
Jiang Yan tried hard to recall the time-travel novels she had read and the various astronomical knowledge she knew: "Seven planets aligned? Nine planets aligned? Or some kind of solar eclipse, lunar eclipse? Or maybe a blood moon? I don't know. I'm thinking about it now. I still don't understand how I got here!"
Huang Ying stared at her, seemingly believing but not quite understanding. When Huang Ying looked at her, she asked again, "What do you do in your hometown? You can think back carefully!"
Jiang Yan couldn't help but smile bitterly again: "I've thought about this a hundred thousand times, and I still can't figure it out! I remember I stayed up all night playing a game, and when it got light, I felt a little dizzy, so I lay down on my bed in the dorm, and then... did I suddenly die?"
The thought of this made her feel her body slowly cooling down uncontrollably, as if someone had suddenly thrown her into an ice cave.
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