Chapter 1: Transmigration and House Raided

“Huan’er, don’t die!”

“How could you be so foolish? If you die, then mother won’t live either!”

The clamor in her ears finally prevented Yan Huan from continuing to pretend to be asleep. She opened her eyes, glanced at the surrounding environment, and then silently closed them again.

How awful!

She didn’t know how she had transmigrated after just taking a nap. Moreover, the scene before her was like this the moment she arrived. She could only hope that this was just a dream, and that she would wake up and transmigrate back after another sleep.

However, the beautiful woman in front of her clearly didn’t want to give her another chance to sleep. She kept pulling at her and crying incessantly, soaking a large patch of her chest, which greatly annoyed her.

She had already received all of the original owner’s memories. She knew that although she had transmigrated into an official’s family, she would soon become the daughter of a disgraced official and be exiled to the wilderness.

A political coup had occurred in the Tianxin Kingdom’s royal family. The old emperor was critically ill, and the crown prince’s trusted general, Jiang Lingqi, had been secretly accused of colluding with the enemy and betraying the country. The crown prince lost power overnight, was demoted to a commoner, and exiled thousands of miles away. Consequently, all members of the crown prince’s faction were also successively exiled.

And her father was the crown prince’s tutor, a proper member of the crown prince’s faction. Naturally, their family could not escape the fate of having their home raided and being exiled thousands of miles away.

It was precisely because of this that the original owner couldn’t bear the blow and directly hanged herself. Thinking of all this, Yan Huan was even more unwilling to wake up.

The original owner had died and found peace, but she had miserably come to take over this mess.

“Miss, you can’t keep lying down! The officials will come to raid the house in a moment. Master and the young masters have already been arrested. Only you can hold this family together now. You must pull yourself together!” said Mama Jiang, the servant standing beside Madam Xu.

Mama Jiang was Yan Huan’s wet nurse and had always treated Yan Huan as her own daughter. She was the first to discover Yan Huan’s suicide attempt.

These words were like a thunderbolt striking Yan Huan’s head, shaking her so much that she could no longer continue lying there pretending to be dead.

Now that she had transmigrated, was she just going to lie in bed and wait for death?

Her frail and helpless old mother would probably hang herself on the spot if she didn’t say something, right?

Look, even though the servants in the house were saying such disrespectful things in front of her, she didn’t look like the mistress of the house at all. There was even a hint of shame on her face, as if she felt she was indeed someone who couldn’t stand up for herself.

Perhaps her consciousness had completely merged with the original owner’s body. At this moment, looking at Madam Xu crying with snot and tears streaming down her face, she actually felt a sense of empathy, and her heart also ached.

Aunt Tao, who was in charge of household affairs, had also run away. Only she could really hold this family together. Relying on her mother was absolutely impossible. After all, how many mistresses in normal families would hand over the power of managing the household to a concubine while being deeply loved by their husbands?

Fortunately, in this era, those who could transmigrate were all big shots. They would be embarrassed to transmigrate without some kind of cheat. And she possessed a spatial dimension. Since she had a space, what was there to be afraid of in a house raid? She could just put all the valuable things in the house directly into it.

Having figured this out, Yan Huan immediately revived with full buffs. She put away the little depression in her heart and prepared to make a big move. At the very least, the most important thing right now was to take away all the family’s supplies to increase her chances of survival. She didn’t want to transmigrate and then immediately die on the way to exile.

Yan Huan sprang up from the bed and directly reached out to Madam Xu, saying, “Mother, where are the keys to our storeroom? Quick, give them to me.”

“Aunt Tao took the keys when she ran away,” Madam Xu said, her face showing not a trace of sadness, as if she were talking about something extremely ordinary.

Seeing Yan Huan’s unpleasant expression, she then said softly, “Huan’er, don’t worry too much. Since there will be officials escorting us, they will definitely provide food. We won’t go hungry.”

“Besides, even if we take things with us, they will be searched and confiscated.”

“Huan’er, don’t be too sad. As long as our family is together, it doesn’t matter where we go. As long as the family is still alive, that’s better than anything else.”

What kind of defeatist mentality was this?

Yan Huan was speechless upon hearing these words. Her cheap mother’s logic was simply astonishing.

She didn’t know if she was too naive or if her brain circuits were strange, but she was thinking of exile way too beautifully.

At this moment, Yan Huan didn’t want to waste any more time talking to her. She instructed Mama Jiang to take good care of her and hurriedly ran out.

When she ran to the door of the storeroom, she saw a large lock hanging there. However, the lock was open.
Damn it, that Aunt Tao must have ransacked the storeroom before running away!

Yan Huan cursed inwardly and walked in.

The storeroom was not small, filled with dozens of boxes and crates of various sizes, but several of them were already open.

Aunt Tao must have known that she couldn’t carry too many things with her and only took some small and valuable items.

Yan Huan didn’t look closely. She just shoved everything, whether opened or unopened, into her spatial dimension.

Even empty boxes could be used to store things in the future. Anyway, her space was very large, so she couldn’t waste it.

Just as she had cleared out the storeroom, Mama Jiang pushed the door open from the outside. Seeing the storeroom empty, her face turned green with anger.

“That little vixen! I said earlier that she had ulterior motives. She really isn’t a good person!”

“There were so many boxes and crates in the house. How did she manage to move them all away? With so many things being moved out, there’s no way we wouldn’t have noticed anything at all.”

Yan Huan’s old face flushed red. She felt she had been too hasty and should have left some worthless things behind. So many boxes and crates disappearing without a trace was indeed difficult to explain.

However, before she could figure out how to respond, Mama Jiang continued, “That vile creature must have been plotting this for a long time!”

Speaking of this, Mama Jiang was overcome with grief and looked despairing. She wasn’t as optimistic as the madam. It was easier to deal with the king of hell than with petty devils. The hardships on the road of exile could be imagined even without experiencing them. If they didn’t have any money to bribe officials along the way, it was hard to say whether they could even reach their destination.
Okay, thank you to the clever, intelligent, and understanding Mama Jiang for even thinking of an excuse for her.

“Mama Jiang, didn’t I ask you to take good care of my mother? How could you leave her alone and run over here? I don’t need your help here.”

She still wanted to go and look around other places, and it would be inconvenient to have Mama Jiang following her.

Hearing this, Mama Jiang remembered that she had come to deliver a message.

“Miss, Madam said, fortunately, the servants’ contracts of sale haven’t been given to Aunt Tao yet. What should we do with these people in the house? I don’t know how many people we can afford to feed by then, and how many people we can keep by our side to serve us.”

Yan Huan rubbed her forehead. She was only fifteen years old in this body. Why did she have to endure all this mess?

But this wasn’t the time to complain. She just wanted to get Mama Jiang away as soon as possible.

“I still have other things to do here, so I’m afraid I’ll have to trouble Mama Jiang.”