When I opened my eyes again, all I could see were beautiful clouds and colorful lights, which decorated the space in a beautiful and magical way.
Bai Yan looked around and noticed that things seemed to have changed since she last visited.
She remembered that when she first came here, the clouds were beautiful, but still shrouded in darkness. However, with each change, the place is no longer the same as the grayish tone she first saw.
The space was filled with rosy clouds. What she was stepping on was no longer dark rocks, but soil with the scent of fragrant grass. She stepped lightly and reached out to touch the clouds above her head. They were different from before, and they did not react at all.
Bai Yan withdrew her hand and frowned slightly: This is not him.
"Gurgle, gurgle..."
"Gurgle, gurgle..."
The sound of bubbling spring water seemed to rise up. Bai Yan walked in the direction of the sound and saw a natural pool in front of her. Steam rose from the pool, and it looked like a fairyland.
A splash of green in the pool caught Bai Yan's attention.
Bai Yan walked over and saw a small sapling with two tender leaves struggling in the pool, trying to get her to see it.
Seeing her approach, the little creature stopped fluttering and its two leaves began to sway happily again.
Bai Yan's lips curled up as she sat on a nearby rock, her gaze fixed on the sapling. "Is that you? How did you turn into a sapling?"
Her hand gently caressed the two leaves, and the leaves nestled against her hand.
A tender look appeared in Bai Yan's eyes: "So cute."
After nudging her twice, the sapling hopped onto a floating leaf in the middle of the spring.
Bai Yan didn't know what it was going to do, but then it stretched out two leaves, scooped out a few drops of spring water, sprinkled them on itself, and then immediately shook its leaves with renewed vigor.
He looked completely absorbed in the moment.
"You want me to drink spring water?" Bai Yan asked.
The sapling nodded immediately, and two leaves fluttered happily. Finally, fearing she wouldn't understand, it carefully curled up a corner of one leaf, making it look like it was giving her a thumbs up.
Compared to its cloud-shaped form, it seems more lively now that it's smaller.
Bai Yan smiled and flicked its leaves: "I'll drink it."
She cupped some spring water in her hands and took a sip. The water flowed from her throat to her lungs, sweeping away all her fatigue. In fact, her mental domain was much larger than before.
Bai Yan opened her eyes in a daze, her gaze returning to the spring water. "What is this?"
She cupped the spring water in her hands again, but it disappeared before it even reached her lips.
The sapling shook its head at her.
"It's a good thing, but it shouldn't be consumed in excess, right?" She understood what it meant.
The sapling gave a thumbs up again.
"Alright, whatever you say." Bai Yan smiled and reached out to touch its leaves, her eyes then sweeping over the land: "This place feels familiar, like I've been here before."
The soil here felt familiar to her.
"One day in the future, I'll be able to see the complete you here, and then I'll know your true identity, right?"
She had a premonition that that day would come.
The sapling stretched out a leaf and nuzzled her again, as if in response.
Bai Yan smiled and said, "Then see you again."
...
"Cough cough..."
Unable to breathe properly in her chest, and with excruciating pain shooting through her feet, Bai Yan struggled to open her eyes, only to be met with an antique-style bed curtain.
Has she traveled back to ancient times again?
But she quickly dismissed the idea, because when she turned her head, she saw the bookshelf, which, in addition to the usual Four Books and Five Classics, also contained an original English version of a foreign classic.
Before she could think about it, her feet started hurting like they were being crushed again, which explained why she felt a tightness in her chest.
Her face was covered in tears; the original owner must have been crying so hard she couldn't catch her breath.
Bai Yan was also in pain, but she was more afraid of the unknown dangers. Could the original owner have a terminal illness? She wasn't in a hurry. After leaving the previous world, she stored cell restoration fluid in her spiritual realm, which was enough to heal herself.
But when she pulled back the blanket and saw her bound feet, she realized where the strange pain she had felt earlier came from.
"I see Yan'er has stopped crying, has something happened?" A woman's anxious voice came from outside the door: "She was crying so hard just now!"
As they were speaking, the door seemed to be pushed.
"Something's happened! What happened?" A loud female voice, different from the others, rang out.
"It's just a woman's foot binding, it hurts a little but it'll pass!" The person who spoke first seemed to have been stopped: "Second Aunt, once you harden your heart and suffer once, Yan'er's future days will be sweet!"
"If you don't let her suffer today, then if she's unhappy in the future, it will all be your fault as her own mother!"
The woman who had been crying seemed to be moved by her words, and Bai Yan could hear someone outside sobbing softly.
Throughout five thousand years of history, foot binding was undoubtedly the most deplorable aspect of culture.
Bai Yan looked rather pale, but thankfully she was afraid of pain but could still endure it.
I closed my eyes and began to absorb the storyline of this world:
This is a story about a warlord's son falling in love with a progressive female student. The male protagonist, Zhong Yunsheng, is a top student who has returned from studying at a military academy abroad. He unexpectedly meets and falls in love with Mu Jinzhi, who is on the same ship.
He wanted to marry Mu Jinzhi, but his father had already arranged a marriage for him back in his hometown.
The original owner's father and Zhong's father were classmates when they were young, and after graduating from school, they went to the battlefield together.
However, in an unexpected incident, the two were attacked by stray bullets from the enemy. The original owner's father pushed Zhong's father away and took the fatal blow for him.
To repay this life-saving grace, Zhong's father promised to take care of the original owner's wife and daughter at the original owner's father's grave and arranged the marriage between the original owner and Zhong Yunsheng.
Girls in this era tend to marry young. After turning sixteen, the original owner was sent to the Zhong family by her family and married Zhong Yunsheng, who was unwilling to marry her.
Zhong Yunsheng deeply loved Mu Jinzhi, but was forced to marry the original owner of the body. Mu Jinzhi also married someone else under the arrangement of her family. The two lovers were separated, and Zhong Yunsheng naturally suffered the pain of unrequited love.
He neglected the original owner at home, and when he was forced to consummate the marriage with her, he still called her by the name Mu Jinzhi.
Mr. Zhong was usually too busy to care about the inner quarters of the household. One of his concubines happened to be a classmate of Mu Jinzhi.
To vent Mu Jinzhi's anger, he repeatedly made things difficult for the original owner, making her life in the inner quarters increasingly unbearable.
As for Zhong Yunsheng and Mu Jinzhi, they love each other but are helpless because the other has a family. The two can only comment on each other's articles in the newspaper to ease their longing.
But a turning point came quickly. The war began, and Mu Jinzhi's officer husband died on the battlefield. As soon as Zhong Yunsheng heard the news, he couldn't wait to comfort her. The two quickly became close again, and Zhong Yunsheng even publicly professed his love for Mu Jinzhi in the newspaper.
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