“Miss, the Master has sent someone to ask when you will return to Lushan Academy?” A respectful female voice sounded by her ear. The young woman lazily turned over, her wide sleeve slipping down to her elbow and revealing fair, translucent skin, gilded by the sunlight with a faint halo.
She leisurely picked up her teacup and took a sip before slowly asking, “What? Could it be that Lushan Academy has gone to Grandfather?”
“The Master said that Lushan Academy’s requirements are extremely strict. If a student does not attend classes for a month, they may be expelled.”
“Then let them expel me! What am I afraid of? Do they expect me to keep facing those so-called talents? Just thinking about it makes me sick!”
The young woman gave a cold snort, sharpness glinting in her eyes. Unlike her previous languor, she now carried a restrained air of authority.
Talents? Bullshit! People who had aptitude but no character could be called talents? What a joke!
No matter who it was, if they woke up one day and suddenly found themselves moved to a different nest—an unfamiliar place, no less—their mood would hardly be good.
That was exactly what had happened to her. She had clearly been sleeping soundly in a valley of Mount Shu, yet at some unknown time she had arrived here and become an unknown young woman.
Recalling the information she had coaxed out of the maids around her during this period, then organizing it together with her own deductions, it was not difficult to guess the causes and consequences of the matter.
The world today was divided into four: Southern Tang, Northern Qin, Western Liang, and Eastern Yan. This era was vastly different from her own. After the Qin dynasty unified the world, it did not fall after only two generations. After the First Emperor, Fusu inherited the throne, and the Qin dynasty existed for a full two hundred years.
It was not until the final emperor became muddleheaded and incompetent that the various great powers rose in rebellion and contended for the realm. In the end, the world was divided into four. The Qin dynasty withdrew to a corner and became Northern Qin, while the three victorious powers became the founding emperors of the other three states.
She had possessed this young woman’s body. As it happened, the two of them shared the same given name and surname: Xiao Qianyin. She lived together with her maternal grandfather. Because her mother had died early, her grandfather had doted on and indulged her excessively, raising her into someone ignorant and incapable, with a violent temper, publicly known as a useless fool. Others, wary of her capricious moods, did not dare mock her to her face, but behind her back, everyone called her the useless young miss.
And the maternal grandfather of this body was none other than Western Liang’s Marquis Dingguo. His ancestors had followed the founding emperor in conquering the realm, and the title had been passed down generation after generation. Moreover, he held three hundred thousand elite troops in his grasp, making him a force not to be underestimated.
Marquis Dingguo had only one daughter, who married the young master of the Xiao family, one of the four great clans. Xiao Qianyin was their child. However, the young master of the Xiao family favored his concubine over his wife, causing Xiao Qianyin’s mother to sink into melancholy and ultimately die of depression.