Chapter 1: Prologue
⊱ ━━━━ prologue | floating memories ━━━━ ⊰
A breeze gently rustled the sparse leaves on the stalwart bamboo, a quiet disturbance in the otherwise tranquil mountain. The occasional birdsong would sound in symphony with the bubbling of the brook running through the forest.
There was a flash of silver from behind a moss-covered stone. Then, a figure suddenly sat up on the densely covered forest floor, like a forest spirit emerging from a lotus blossom.
Long black hair trailed the forest floor, the stark contrast revealing a harmonious picture between the black and green hues. Eyelashes as wispy as gossamer fluttered open revealing brown eyes that were as warm as the soil of Mother Nature herself.
Qiu Qing Shu stifled a yawn and stretched, having not fully escaped the throes of sleep yet. Blinking languidly, she intuitively reached out a hand to pat the soft fur of the creature next to her.
The gray wolf, which was around the size of a large hound dog, nudged its head further into her hand, its eyes squinted in an expression that very clearly conveyed that it was enjoying her touch. The girl cast a complicated gaze toward the wolf next to her.
Upon checking the position of the sun in the sky, it was clear that it was almost sunset, whereas she had only fallen asleep half a shichena shichen is two hours ago.
Was it possible to dream of such a vivid dream in such a short amount of time?
Qiu Qing Shu rubbed her face tiredly. The scenes that had flashed through her mind and were still clear as day right now were much too detailed for something her mind had subconsciously conjured together.
In a world that had been so advanced that flying birds made of metal and small lumps with flashing screens were not just figments of her imagination, she had died. With only a different surname, Liu Qing Shu, she had been the eldest daughter of a successful telecommunications company, and only twenty-three when she died.
And the cause of her death—a scheme whose mastermind had been her younger step-sister.
The memories of her life as Liu Qing Shu in this futuristic world flashed before her eyes, tears already welling up in them as the emotions overwhelmed her.
Her father, who had at the time of his marriage with her mother, had not yet succeeded in breaking into the mainstream, was childhood sweethearts with her mother. They had grown up together in the same village on the outskirts of the city, and with their families having good relationships with each other, they also naturally developed feelings for each other.
However, tragedy struck when her mother died while giving birth to her. Although her father never mistreated her during those years, no matter how young she was, Liu Qing Shu could still feel the distance her father had put between the two of them, and the relationship between the two naturally drifted apart.
At eight years old, well into the years where her father’s company had become successful, her father finally remarried the young Zhang Lu Shi of Zhang Corporations, a major conglomerate in the pharmaceutical industry.
It was unknown how her father had married so high above his status, or what Zhang Lu Shi saw with him, but it wasn’t long before she moved in with them and brought along with her Zhang Xue Ruo, her daughter from her previous marriage who was six months younger than Liu Qing Shu.
From then on, Liu Qing Shu clearly felt her father’s deep-rooted grievance and anger that stemmed from the loss of his first wife being directed at her. No matter how hard he tried to hide it in the earlier years, with the weathering of the years, those buried sorrows slowly resurfaced, one by one.
After being wrongly accused by Zhang Xue Ruo for breaking an antique vase that her mother had especially cherished after receiving it from her father, she was banished by her fuming father to his hometown in the village and sent to live with her paternal grandmother.
So from the age of sixteen until her death, she lived in the village with her grandmother, farming and making an honest living. The broken pieces of her heart that had been shattered when it had received the full brunt of her father’s fury were gradually sewn up with the messy stitches that came with her grandmother’s doting care, the villagers’ warm demeanor and tranquil lifestyle.
However, they never fully healed.
She watched the scenes flit by as she accompanied her grandmother in cultivating the harvest in their fields, cooking for her, and organizing the household. She watched as that little girl who constantly yearned for her father’s affection slowly grew up, her only joys being eating delicious food and soft fluffy animals—yet that resolve in her mind never faded.
‘If I work harder, maybe father will finally come and bring me back to the capital with grandmother. This is all just one of his trials for me.’
But as the years went by, she too, grew colder and colder towards this neglectful father of hers. Perhaps it would be better for her to live a life filled with warm days with her grandmother in the countryside away from the dirty schemes of the polluted capital.
However, as if life was playing a cruel joke on her, she seemed to once again have been played as a joke by the heavens, and had an epiphany too late.
Qiu Qing Shu could do nothing but watch helplessly at the mournful figure that was her in another life kowtow to the ancestral shrine in their family’s rural home. She watched as her younger self greeted the many relatives that came with a stony face—even giving attitude to her father, whom she had once yearned for affection from.
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A year after her grandmother’s death, Liu Qing Shu had died on the way back from buying groceries in the village and had died on impact from being hit by a drunk driver.
Until now, she had merely thought the heavens were taunting her and had caused her to die for nothing. She wondered if her father had even mourned her death at all.
But now, she watched as Zhang Xue Ruo was happily joined in engagement to the handsome young heir of Long Corps. Her eye twitched as she watched that same Long Corps heir stare blankly at her in the village when he visited to expand his family’s chain stores, then the image of him insisting to marry the eldest daughter of the Liu family with the reason that he had fallen at first sight for the beauty of Eldest Miss Liu, whose countenance resembled that of an ice queen.
Panicking, the Zhang mother and daughter then concocted a sinister scheme of leaving no path to escape and paid someone to take her out of this life.
Qiu Qing Shu almost exploded with indignant fury.
This blackhearted mother and daughter duo! And that pig headed teammate of a fiancee! What did this daddyan arrogant way of referring to oneself ever do to you to deserve this?!
The emotions of Liu Qing Shu in the modern world flooded her senses before she woke up. She gazed complicatedly at the heart shaped birthmark on her wrist.
Upon regaining her memories, Qiu Qing Shu realized that she had transmigrated into her previous life in which the Great Jin Empire was in power. This same previous life of hers was also a world inside a novel that she had read in the modern world as Liu Qing Shu.
In this world, set inside the novel <Domineering Legitimate Miss>, the female lead, who was the daughter of the Grand Secretariat, a high ranking aristocrat in the Jin Empire, had been mistakenly swapped at birth with a daughter of a merchant family when their families sheltered in a cave and both madams gave birth together when they were stranded on a storming day.
The female lead demonstrated the plot of snatching back the magpie’s nest from the turtledovetaking back what is rightfully someone's, trampled the vicious fake daughter to death, and rose to become the benevolent empress after successfully placing her house in the fifth prince’s faction and supporting him to become emperor.
Fortunately, her past life wasn’t one of these characters, but actually an extra whose name wasn’t even mentioned once in the original novel! She had only offhandedly realized this world was a novel that she had read in her life as Liu Qing Shu as her family had roughly been mentioned near the end of the novel.
The Qiu household was a family of merchants that had been imperially appointed by the emperor to trade with neighboring countries and further diplomacy between empires. In the end, the Qiu household met its demise when it allied with the crown prince, who had promised them that he would try to find their missing daughter. The only clue they had provided the crown prince with was that this alleged daughter had a heart shaped birthmark on her right wrist and a mole underneath her left eye.
Qiu Qing Shu’s delicate mouth twisted upwards at her own reflection in the brook, the crystal clear water clearly reflecting back a conspicuous small black mole underneath her left eye.
Overwhelmed with emotions, she let out a resigned groan and flopped back onto the wolf’s black, her mischievous hands digging deeper into the wolf’s fur in an attempt to find something to cheer herself up with.
“Little Fatty, do you think this sister should stay here with you babies or go and find my real family?” The girl rolled over and buried her face into Little Fatty’s neck and hid her satisfied smile, her muffled voice barely able to be heard.
The wolf nudged her head with its snout and grunted with a disdainful look on its face. It was almost as if Qiu Qing Shu could hear the wolf saying, “Who are you calling Little Fatty? Your whole family are Little Fatties!”
Qiu Qing Shu’s face hidden in the wolf’s fur suddenly lit up, as a gluttonous look slowly emerged from her eyes.
Speaking of fatties, she really wished she had some taiwanese braised pork rice right now…
Snapping out of her gluttonous thoughts, Qiu Qing Shu sat up and looked at the wolf with a pointed look and said dryly, “Thanks for reminding me I don’t have a family ah!”
The wolf jumped and looked at her with apologetic eyes, almost as if it were groveling for its crimes. Qiu Qing Shu sighed as she propped up her chin on her palm, shoving the bootlicking wolf’s head away from her.
As if my life as Liu Qing Shu didn’t teach me anything! Plus, wolves are furry and nice to cuddle—thus, I’m already five times less likely to go back and live with humans!
Qiu Qing Shu clenched her fist and looked up at the sky with a determined gaze.
This time, I’ll definitely live freely without restraints, eat whatever my gluttonous self desires, and pet all the soft and fluffy creatures of this world!
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