On stage ,off stage .

"Argh! "Qinghuan grunted as the maid continued to mess her already injured ankle.

Drowned in pain as she tried to figure out why her body didn't seem to act as she wanted it to ,instead she seemed to be acting as the bullied damsel in distress.

No matter how she cursed the maid mentally and the gods for such an annoying fate ,her hosts body did otherwise and made no attempt to attack the maid so as to free herself nor say anything.

In short her body and mind seemed to act contradictively.

"I will just leave you here since you like the immortal men so much I will let you stay near them, in this forest. Hope you don't make it home soon milady, PAH?!" accompanied by a spit on Qinghuan's hair the maid stepped harder onto the ankle.

Having said that Qinghuan eyes turned dark in alarm.... now she remembers this is the chapter scene where the evil maid deliberately escorted the original Qinghuan to the mountains to see the sect men who practiced..... in fact it was more like the maid tricked her into coming her.

Qinghuan had seen once the immortals and just out of admiration she followed them up to discover that it was a sect in their kingdom.

"*sigh*"

Qinghuan sighed when the maid stopped the torture and walked off at a distance.... till then did Qinghuan's expression that was frail and delicate turned gloomy and cold.

"you jerk come back here how dare you.... Ahhh! " She hopped on her foot as she had caused further pain on there injured uncle..

"Dammit that evil maid! "she hissed leaning against the tree so as to seat.

'Why did I get paper flipping noises earlier and why does the maid act differently, if I remember well the maid only appeared a few times but all times she mistreated Qinghuan, so why was she acting all docile and loyal earlier? ' she thought glancing at the setting sun before sighing softly.

'And earlier it felt like it was on stage ,now it feels like off stage... makes sense! right? No I don't think so! 'She pondered further 'I was so angry and am strong enough to beat that maid and I would have abused her or do something, but I just couldn't move or do anything about it.'

"This is so annoying.... once last thing to confirm my assumptions.... if I am really Qinghuan I read about I will have to stay in this forest for three days before meeting the male lead.

if I remember correctly that is when Qinghuan fell in love with Fu Chou who saved her from wolves that were gonna destroy her half conscious body. In short I have to get away from here to somewhere safe..... if I do so the plot will change but it doesn't matter am here to survive not to have feelings. " She concluded as she looked at her body.

Compared to her former body... actually there were no differences just the dressing style.

it was already hot as recalling the spit on her hair she had forgot she shivered in disgust.

Taking the outer layer of the hanfu leaving her the light dress that covered her breasts leaving her shoulders exposed to the harsh sun and her back dealt with the rough bark.

Having came from the modern world exposing skin wasn't that much of a deal.

She forced herself to stand up only to realize that the ankle no longer pained her.

"Holy mother f*** of Mary! "she exclaimed in both joy and shock.... just earlier her ankle hurts so badly that she would rather die than letting an ant walk on it.

Yeah that's how badly it pained her.

Taking the manchu shoes she wore she saw it was swollen and bruised but didn't pain at all.

"Honestly this feels like off stage " she murmured softly as she tore a piece from the outer robe she wore and passed it through her hair thoroughly. Sure that she should not have spit in her hair anymore she dropped the torn piece and started taking the expensive looking pins from her hair.

Soon her hair was let down, one thing Qinghuan or Lily Huan hated the most was hair on her shoulders so she skillfully rolled the hair into a messy bun after which she added a pin to steady it so as not to loosen.

"So now, where are we heading? "She asked herself as she lifted the outer garment and folded it to satisfaction and chose to walk in the same direction as the evil maid had gone... following the broken brunches and foot prints of the maid she left behind .

She walked about two hours and it was already dark when she found the main road, probably.

She was not sure of what direction to take so she decisively looked at the moon and it was at the mid east hence she chose to follow the moon and walked along the dusty road.

Her throat was dry but she made no attempt to stop.... as if fate pitied her somewhat she saw a cottage made of wood at the tree ends she hurried up her steps.... soon she was mid way when a man in all black ran from the woods towards her.

In reflex she took the folded Hanfu outer layer and swang it loose ,taking a step back aiming to throw it at the man as a distraction.

The man before her vanished into thin air before reappearing besides her.

"Eh?! "she gasped when the man pushed her forward and dodged the arrow.

Before kicking it back at the other men who also wore black. The Arrow hit straight at one of the three men's throat.

And before Qinghuan could process what was going on slashing and mental clashing sounds echoed in the forest. When she felt a sticky warm thick liquid fall and start traveling down her face ,neck and lastly on her collarbone.

Opening her eyes she saw all the men from earlier down, dead! Three of them while the other stood in front of her with a long sword in his left arm.

Her trembling fingers traced her collarbone and she grew pale when her eyes met the red liquid on her fingertips. BLOOD!

She looked at the man who was in front of her walking past her, her expression grew uglier.

"Stop! "She demanded which worked but the latter didn't turn around neither did she.

And that was the last thing she remembers before clashing with the rough soils.