Chapter 1 – Transmigration, Bring He Yinshao to My Room
“This cave is so dark… Isn’t it dangerous?” A deep, hesitant voice was the first to speak.
“Can someone go inside and take a look?”
“No one wants to…”
“What do we do? Are we going to die here?” The deep voice began to tremble.
“Yanyan, why don’t you go in and take a look first?” A soft, gentle voice sounded as Song Chan carefully tugged on Leng Yan’s sleeve.
A tall girl in an outdoor jacket stared into the pitch-black cave that seemed to have no end. The beam of a flashlight fell across her face, making her already aloof features look even colder.
Leng Yan had never expected something like this to happen just because she had agreed to come out for a meal with her stepsister and her friends.
Leng Yan’s mother had died after giving birth to her. Her father, Leng Guanghan, had grieved for a long time afterward. It wasn’t until Leng Yan finally turned eighteen that he found himself another companion. Naturally, Leng Yan also hoped her father could find someone who would look after him and be there for him in the future, so she agreed to her father’s request and decided to get along well with Song Chan.
“This is what you call camping? Coming out to the middle of nowhere, getting completely lost as soon as it gets dark, and now we have to find a safe cave big enough to shelter us?” Leng Yan’s voice betrayed no emotion.
No one dared respond. An awkward silence spread through the group.
“Tsk.” Leng Yan said nothing more. She turned on the flashlight on her phone, bent slightly, and ventured into the cave.
The cave was actually quite large. The only concern was whether there might be any dangerous animals inside. After all, it was still early spring, and some animals might not have woken from hibernation yet. Running into one would be troublesome.
“Yanyan…” Song Chan followed behind Leng Yan, clutching the hem of her clothes.
“Song Chan, let go first.” Leng Yan stretched the arm holding her phone farther ahead. The path inside was rough and difficult to walk on. “If we walk like this and I fall, I’ll drag you down with me.”
“Okay.” Song Chan released her hand, but continued following closely behind Leng Yan.
After exploring roughly fifty steps in, they encountered the first fork in the path. Both passages sloped downward.
Leng Yan picked up stones and tossed one into each passage. Neither produced an echo…
Leng Yan propped her chin on one hand, somewhat troubled. Both paths apparently continued farther in.
“How about we just stay near the cave entrance for the night?” the deep voice suggested.
“No…” Leng Yan shook her head. The light from her phone had begun to dim. “We need to make sure this cave is safe before we spend the night here. If there’s a hibernating bear inside, we’ll be in danger.”
She began thinking about how to divide everyone into two groups.
“Brother Zhang, you’re a man, so naturally you have more stamina. You go with my sister and Sister Sun. If anything happens, you can help each other.” Leng Yan walked toward the opening on the left. “I have some experience with this kind of thing. I’ll check the passage on the left by myself.”
“Yanyan… no!” Song Chan reached out to pull Leng Yan back. “It’s too dangerous! Come back first…”
“Don’t worry, Sister. We’re short on time.” Leng Yan dodged Song Chan’s hand and headed into the cave passage alone.
“Xiaochan, just listen to your sister. She has experience.” Sun Li held Song Chan back. She was frightened too, and going with three people made her feel safer. Besides, ever since they had gotten lost, Leng Yan had remained calm the entire time. Sun Li felt that Leng Yan would probably be fine.
“That’s right, Sister Song. Let’s go too. Xiaoyan is the calmest out of all of us. She’ll definitely be okay,” Zhang Kai persuaded her. He and Sun Li were a couple, and they were also the ones who had first suggested camping in this deserted wilderness.
Perhaps realizing that his behavior earlier had been too cowardly, he hoped he could protect the two women while they explored the passage on the right and salvage some of his image.
“Alright…” Song Chan hesitated before following them toward the passage on the right.
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“Why does it feel like the air is getting thinner and thinner…” Leng Yan used the light from her phone to illuminate the path ahead, gradually realizing something was wrong.
She hurriedly took out a lighter. It burned normally when she held it higher up, but when Leng Yan lowered it, the flame weakened considerably before slowly going out altogether.
Leng Yan cursed inwardly. Crap. If she continued going downward, it would probably be difficult to stay inside for more than thirty minutes…
She immediately sent Song Chan and the others a message, telling them to return to the cave entrance and wait there. She herself needed to hurry back to the entrance as well…
Perhaps she stood up too quickly, because a wave of dizziness hit her. Her foot slipped into empty space, and she tumbled down the downward-sloping path.
Leng Yan reacted quickly, wrapping both arms around her head as she rolled all the way to the bottom.
By the time she finally came to a stop, she lay on the ground panting lightly, her head growing increasingly dizzy.
She rasped between shallow breaths, “God… I’m not really going to die here, am I…?”
The oxygen grew thinner and thinner. Leng Yan felt her eyelids becoming heavier and heavier. Slowly, she relaxed her body and closed her weighted eyes…
In a hazy, dreamlike space.
“Child? Are you alright?” A warm young man’s voice sounded.
“? Child? Who? Me?” Leng Yan looked toward the source of the voice in confusion, only to see nothing but endless white.
“Mm, looks like you’re doing just fine~” The young man’s voice carried a hint of delight. “Since that’s the case, go complete this transmigration mission. You…”
Leng Yan only grew more confused, and she could no longer absorb anything he said afterward. Transmigration? Who was he?
But she soon had no time left to wonder, because she suddenly felt her body plummet downward, as though she were falling into a bottomless abyss, sinking endlessly…
She hugged her head tightly. After what felt like a long time, she finally sensed herself being gently set down on the ground.
It didn’t hurt?
When she sat up and looked around, she found herself inside an extremely luxurious-looking room.
The decor, however, was far too gaudy.
Hiss… her head was starting to hurt…
Around ten minutes later, a large number of “unfamiliar memories” had appeared in her mind.
Transmigration into a novel, unfamiliar memories…
“Could these memories be the plot?” Leng Yan murmured to herself. Then what about her original world?
Would those three idiots be able to escape?
Leng Yan clutched her aching head, reluctant to face the fact that she had transmigrated into a novel while also worrying about the three people in the other world.
Knock, knock, knock.
Leng Yan’s gaze shifted toward the bedroom door.
“Miss, should we bring that little bitch to your room now?” the maid asked respectfully from outside.
Leng Yan felt like her thoughts were still a complete mess. She replied loudly, “Wait a bit. I’m going to take a bath first.”
“Yes, Miss.”
Before long, Leng Yan had already stripped off her clothes and sunk into the bathtub. The massage setting on the jacuzzi effectively eased the discomfort she had felt ever since arriving in this world.
She leaned against the edge of the tub and stared up at the ceiling. But the thought of having to go through so much of the plot later made her increasingly irritated. After thinking for a long while, she put on a gray bathrobe.
She pulled open the bedroom door and looked down at the servants on the first floor.
“Bring He Yinshao to my room.”
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