The Teacher and the Student (1)

When Yin Mei opened her eyes, she was standing in front of a window, overlooking a brightly lit city. Flying cars drove by, holographic screens flickered, and an explosion of color painted itself against the night sky.

A futuristic world.

It was just like she had imagined it would look like.

Yin Mei recalled what the description had said when she had chosen it.

Sci Fi World - A world where cancer has been cured, humans live to age 200, and there are flying cars, fully immersive VR, and supernatural abilities.

Not much of the plot was given away, but Yin Mei had always wanted to be in a sci-fi world. After all, who could resist the allure of such new and amazing technology?

The fact that people had supernatural abilities also intrigued her. She looked around. Yin Mei stood in a large and clean looking flat, with a sleek design - it appeared luxurious and elegant, but also empty. As if no one lived here.

From her host's memories, she knew that this apartment was prime real estate, right in the center of the city, with the best view and everything. And her hosts' parents owned the entire building. She shook her head. That didn't matter to her. After many lives having a rich family, it all seemed normal now.

Her hosts never had a very happy future anyways. It went to show that wealth and beauty didn't equal happiness - at least, never in the case of Yin Mei's hosts.

She blinked, placing her hand on the cool glass of the window before her. The window spanned the entire wall, and when Yin Mei moved her hand away, she couldn't see a single fingerprint, the glass staying as clear as ever.

The main male lead of this world was a person who transmigrated. His original name was... Yin Mei blinked. Qin Shuang? Why did this name sound so familiar? She tried hard to remember, and after a long time, a vague face floated up from the depths of her mind.

Eh? Wasn't that the same name as that blood user boy she had raised in the zombie apocalypse world?

She tilted her head. What a coincidence?

She continued digesting the information, and quickly discovered it wasn't at all a coincidence.

The information on the plot explained Qin Shuang's identity in very clear words - The first captain of the Black Cross Brigade, protectors of humanity, the adopted younger brother of the Zombie Queen.

WTF! Isn't this exactly the same Qin Shuang she had raised up?

She quickly read more, confirming that this world was the world a thousand years after the zombie apocalypse. Only a small number of the strongest and oldest mutants remained in a so called "special district", living their lives peacefully, while humans had evolved to become stronger and smarter.

Yin Mei opened and closed her mouth several times, utterly shocked. Not only Qin Shuang, but a couple of other kids she had raised had also transmigrated into new bodies in this brand new era. It didn't really explain how, but neither did she care. She never expected to return to a world, let alone be able to meet the people that she had once associated with.

She closed her mouth, slowly moving from the window to the couch, and sat herself down, needing a moment to digest things. Only after taking several deep breaths, was she able to continue reading on.

Qin Shuang had transmigrated into the body of one of his descendants, a boy by the name of Qin Lan.

Qin Lan had initially been the youngest child of the Qin family, and also the one with the weakest ability. As a result, he had a timid and weak personality, and was constantly bullied by his relatives. At least, that was the case, until Qin Shuang transmigrated into his body. Qin Lan had had a sickly body since young, an illness incurable even by the miraculous medical technology of these futuristic times. As a result of this illness, he had perished, and Qin Shuang's soul had entered his body.

The actuality of it was that Qin Lan's body was just too weak to contain Qin Lan's powerful soul. Somehow, through a series of miraculous events, when Qin Shuang entered Qin Lan's body, it purged it, allowing Qin Shuang's soul to reside in the boy's body comfortably, without needing to worry about all that illness nonsense.

Yin Mei wanted to protest to someone, this writing was just way too sloppy.

Anyways, Yin Mei moved on, continuing her reading. Qin Shuang, now that he had the chance to relive his youth in this mostly peaceful, futuristic world, would of course grasp tightly at such an opportunity. He quickly enrolled in Black Cross Academy, the hardest school in the Empire that raised up the next generation of Black Cross Brigade members, and much to the Qin family's surprise, earned first place on the notoriously difficult entrance exams. Even though the members of the Qin family were granted automatic entrance into the school, Qin Shuang had stubbornly insisted on experiencing life as a commoner and taking the entrance exam.

He proved wrong all doubts about him, and finished with a flourish.

Yin Mei closed her eyes. Her adorable Qin Shuang was currently the male lead. She really didn't know how to feel about this. This little arrogant kid was just... way too cute!

She read on further, wanting to find out who the female lead was - who in the world would her little kid fall in love with? She knew that if Qin Shuang had descendants, it meant that he had a girl back then, after she had died.

The female lead was a student at Black Cross Academy called Alice White, entering at the same time as Qin Shuang. She was not a member of one of the major families, who were all descended from people like Ming Yu or a founding member of the Black Cross Brigade. She was what one would call a commoner.

Despite this, she was very skilled in combat, and had a water ability. Both in appearance and personality, she reminded Qin Shuang a little of his adopted elder sister - if Yin Mei was drinking something, she would have immediately spit it out. Instead, she ended up choking on her own saliva, coughing violently.

She decidedly did not want to read anymore of this love story between Qin Shuang and the girl who was apparently slightly similar to herself.

But even so, she forced herself to continue to read, and her thoughts soon turned somber and dark.

This girl cured Qin Shuang of his regrets, which he continued to carry from all those years ago. For Yin Mei and Qin Shuang both, a lifetime had already passed for them both. For Yin Mei, it was two lifetimes ago, but even so. Qin Shuang had never forgotten, on the other hand, Yin Mei's memory was already fuzzy. She felt ashamed. She no longer thought about what her death meant to those she left behind - after all, she didn't think she would ever see them again. For her, death was impermanent. She would move on to another world, where she would meet new people, live a new life. She had lived very long at this point. If she bothered to recall every person she met, every person she had a meaningful encounter with, then wouldn't her head explode?

Even those who she loved, even those she doted on, whom she treated as family... Knowing what happened to them afterwards had only brought her pain, and so at one point, she had stopped caring. She wasn't sure when, exactly, she had stopped caring.

She blinked.

Her hand slowly formed a fist as she leaned back against the sofa. In the end, she continued on, even though she still hadn't seemed to recover from her confusion. She still needed to know who the villain was. Qin Shuang was important, but, and she didn't feel bad for thinking this, he wasn't as important as the villain.

The villain was the one who would always be with her.

Qin Shuang was a surprise, one she couldn't say was a good or bad one, but that was all. It's not like it would happen again - her coming to this world a third time, meeting another reincarnated Qin Shuang.

(A/N: Yin Mei you are too heartless. It's okay QS, I'll love you)

The villain this time was also a student of Black Cross Academy. It seemed that the school would be the main stage of this plot. The villain was a commoner called Song Hua.

Yin Mei couldn't help gaping again. She felt she was constantly being shocked by this world's plot. Her villain was a commoner!? This was definitely a first.

He was a commoner indeed, but not any ordinary commoner. His family was poor, and as a result, from a young age, he had learned to navigate the criminal underworld of the Empire. He was a scavenger and bounty hunter, and had even apprenticed for a black market doctor at one point in time.

He used the skills and cunning he had learned from his experiences to pass the Black Cross Academy entrance exam with flying colors, earning a full scholarship. Even so, he was still beat by the young master of the Qin family, Qin Lan. He immediately hated the boy, who was born with everything in life, at least from the eyes of Song Hua.

The two of them were like rivals for a time, but for Song Hua, who had been navigating the darkness of the Empire from a young age, he didn't know when too much was too much. Their rivalry quickly grew deadly. Qin Shuang, from where before he had simply thought of it as playing between kids, soon grew more and more serious.

As a result, the two of them became irrevocable enemies.

Yin Mei had to say, that this was unexpected. Her man had been reincarnated into such a vulnerable and insecure boy?

The girl closed her eyes, turning her attention now to her host identity. Her host was actually a teacher at Black Cross Academy!

Yin Mei: ... This... this...

She struggled with herself for a moment before continuing onwards. Yin Mei's host was called Mei Wen. She was a member of a major family, like Qin Lan, and a former member of the Black Cross Brigade who had retired due to injuries. Yin Mei hadn't noticed anything at all, but apparently Mei Wen's right leg was a special prosthetic. It was practically no different from a real leg, perhaps even better, but Mei Wen had still stubbornly retired for some reason - maybe due to the fact that her partner had died.

In the end, she became a history teacher at Black Cross Academy, peacefully raising up the next generation of Brigade members.

Well, Yin Mei said peacefully, but the end result was the she was fired due to being biased against Qin Shuang. This was because of the problems between Mei Wen's family and the Qin family. Both were major families, but were not on good terms.

Yin Mei didn't know why, but that was how it was. And these personal issues ended up affecting Mei Wen's treatment of Qin Shuang. Qin Shuang was never the type of person to take things lying down, and so he quickly acted to have Mei Wen fired from the school. There was a lot of back and forth, as Mei Wen was a former member of the brigade, but in the end, Qin Shuang emerged triumphant.

That little brat really grew up to be a cunning guy, didn't he? Yin Mei couldn't help but think.

She was finally finished looking at all the information. Every time she entered a new world, there was always so much to digest. She flipped over her wrist, a small silver diamond embedded in it. With a thought, the diamond projected a holographic screen, at which she marveled at for a moment.

Futuristic worlds were truly great!

She looked up the history of the world, or rather, what happened after she had died, in detail.

The so called apocalypse period had only last for five years, but those had been humanity's darkest five years. They were called The Evolutionary War, and afterwards, as she had already known, Ming Wei's cure had been distributed, the Black Cross Brigade was founded, and things were all fine and dandy. Humanity quickly recovered, mutants and humans signed a peace treaty, with Ri En acting as the de facto leader and representative of the mutants.

Yin Mei was surprised, but also not that surprised. Ri En and Ri Yi, after her death, had done their best to take Yin Mei's place and fill her shoes as leader of the zombies and parent to the orphans.

After a while, countries formed again. There was where they were currently located, the Empire, the strongest country and source of the cure. Aside from the Empire, there was the United Federation, the Free States, and the Southern Colonies.

Yin Mei was curious - the world was so much more different, even though the apocalypse had only lasted a short five years. The damage it had done was still irrevocable, it seemed.

Even so, Yin Mei could see that the world had recovered very well.

A green light blinked at the edge of the holographic screen, and looking at it, a new window popped up, showing a message from one of Mei Wen's friends.

"Are you a member of the testing panel this year?" It asked. The user who sent it was simply called "K", and wracking Mei Wen's memories, she knew that this K was an old friend of Mei Wen's, and had a little brother who was planning to take this years entrance exams. Hence her question.

Yin Mei looked through Mei Wen's memories again and saw that she was indeed a member of the judging panel for this year's entrance exams. That would be interesting. It meant that she would be able to meet Qin Shuang, Song Hua, and Alice soon.

She sent her response to Mei Wen's friend, as she stroked her chin, perfectly painted nails and lips giving off a sense of elegance and well put togetherness.

This world was chaotic, full of surprises, and definitely interesting.

She liked it.

A/N: This world definitely draws inspiration on Superstars of Tomorrow (hell, I've written probably fifty different versions of the setting for Superstars of Tomorrow because I liked it so much) as well as Quick Transmigration Cannon Fodder something something (the one with the school doctor uncle - I loved the idea of revisiting a former world, which hadn't happened before in anything else I read). Anyways, I basically mashed those two together, along with another idea that I had had of a world that was initially going to be space military academy mecha stuff :P Man I need to read those two novels again and catch up on the new chapters. But also I have so much other things to do...