Chapter 12

Why do I feel cold? As if a cold breeze ushering me to wake up.

Wake up?

I immediately opened my eyes.

"I'm alive?"

Blue skies. Untilled land on sight. My clothes...

Naked. I'm all naked like a newborn babe.

Where are my clothes? Even when I tried to look around, there's nothing in this place. Just some mountains a kilometer away with no house nor any kinds of animals and birds passing by.

"Ahck."

It seems that I have slept here rather uncomfortably.

"What's this?"

The golden hairpin was the only thing that remained on my hair. Just where did that bastard throw me?

Naked like a newborn babe with only a golden hairpin? Haha. It's impossible that I have transmigrated to another place. It just doesn't feel like it.

"I've been kicked out huh?"

I locked my arms on my knees and gazed at nothing in particular.

I sighed.

"Just let me stay like this."

My experience in this novel is ugh, is it even an experience? My brother who treats me coldly was more twisted than I thought. Should I fight back?

Of course, the answer is no. I've never been a strong character even in the real world. I always wear masks. But deep down I'm the one who is easy to give up. The one who's just lazy and wants to be locked in her room and stays late at night binge-watching and reading and having my own world.

Even my room doesn't have any rays of light.

That prince, why didn't he kill me? His eccentric behavior shouldn't have activated at the moment I needed the most.

I've dreamed before to travel inside a novel, story, or game but that's just it. Because I know, it's just a dream.

"Just let me go back. If not then let me die."

But I didn't die. I was so close to death. So... Close.

"Ha."

My body trembled from the cold morning wind. Aiya, I really don't want to think anymore.

I'm alone and abandoned. I've got no plans to stand up at this moment. Just watching nothing. Thinking nothing and doing nothing. Thankfully, there are no bugs and little ants where I'm sitting.

It's quite calming even just by staring at the blue sky from above watching the white clouds slowly moving at their own pace.

How great it must be to move at your own pace...

*growl*

"If I could eat clouds that would be better right, stomach?"

*growl*

"Heh."

I know.

Just staying like this staring at the sky with no one around is a mere escape from reality. Is this even reality? I'm too lazy to speculate.

"So nice to sleep."

Yeah, I should probably sleep.

I laid down and curled like a baby closing my eyes. Any ounce of paranoia had left me and all my rational thoughts aiming to survive and see my mother was swiped away the moment Li Jing started choking me. Too bad, he let me live. Now it feels like I'm just drifting in space.

My experience maybe only the tip of an iceberg for everybody and if my friends are here they might even knock me on the head for being such a coward and my fearsome dad, if he was alive, would talk about courage and maybe he can even motivate me. Even if I think about my mother and then look back at this place...

I just don't want to move again. I don't know how I can do it. I'm like a piece of candy wrapper gliding in the ocean. I—"Fudge."

***

Hm?

I felt something draped over my body and being carried. Now, did the wind turn tangible?

"Head out."

I slowly opened my eyes. Instead of the clouds and skies that will gloomily welcome me, it was a silhouette of a man. Looking down, my body was wrapped like sushi from his hanfu.

I squinted my eyes.

"Uh?"

This man is so handsome, peerlessly gorgeous with an impressive bearing. Defined jaw, attractively kissable lips, and man just look at that five features of his face it's just—incredible. I just know it. Whose Channing Tatum, what Asian celebrity? Those European models and gorgeous American actors, who are they?

This man is a masterpiece, the art that transcends the worldly aesthetic of man. Bro, his pair of dark eyes seeps out the season of winter's heaviest days. Eyes were always my secret fetish. I always like the kind of eyes where you see the outlines— details of the irises, like crystals. The lighter the better. Yet, even if it's in contrast with my usual likelihood wherein his eyes are as black as ebony it's still very appealing.

I could stare at it for eternity. Such a handsome man and I'm such a vain one admiring this beauty when it's known that a person shouldn't dwell so much over the aesthetic feature of a person because they are beautiful in their own way.

It's better to look away than ogling this guy. Yet, that smile etched on his face gives me a foreboding emotion.

"Let's go."

On closer inspection, there were soldiers behind us. Lots of soldiers. If I looked more into it, their armor and clothing is that of a—"Dang."

My eyes widened gazing at the banner.

"Uh. Uh."

This, this is the flag belonging to the Dan Empire!

This is not good. What chapter are we currently in? If I'm not far from the first chapters of the story, then a group of soldiers will head to the Fu Empire (where Li Jia Ying is born) for a meeting.

And this person that is carrying me...

"Hahaha."

I knew it. Those signature earings are the final verification of the Author's favorite man. No wonder he has that impressive vibe and aesthetic, it just has to be the heroine's fated man, the King of Yi, fantastic. In the novel, the FL and ML's first encounter was at the banquet. This should be their second encounter. I must have delayed their meeting.

No wonder I have an ominous feeling, this is the guy that had killed Li Jia Ying. It also means he will take me back to the palace.

Aiyo. No, they may not know that I'm the First Princess, so this will be fine if I talk normally and escape. Let's think about where we should find shelter when it's successful.

"Your Highness, we already sent a pigeon regarding the First Princess' whereabout."

"..."

He is well-informed. So this is how it feels when your plan has failed before it began, it's not nice.

I'm going back to that place again. Wow...

He walked for a couple of minutes entering a small forest that looks like a common route going somewhere. As the path grows wider and clearer there were few men along with their horses at the edge of the forest having the banner of the Fu Empire.

One of the men that caught my eye who slightly turned his head was the person I'm most familiar with, the Overlord Fu Jian Yu with his usual sword eyes.

"Oh!"

Now I remember him. Quite clear now.

He was the one who captured me in the beginning, the person who have his men whacking the back of my neck fainting each time until I was returned to that shitty empire.

Grrr. So it's him again.

Wait, at that time, I'm Jun Xue, not the foolish Li Jia Ying.

"Please do forgive us for letting you wait too long."

The ML smilingly said but the Overland didn't utter a word, he just gaze at me. A gaze that made my heart pound in apprehension.

This is bad.