Chapter 8. Time travel! What a mess!
After a long and confusing dream, Shen Qingmei thought she had been possessed. How could she dream about some prince, crown prince, and heir to the throne? Maybe she had watched too many ancient costume dramas?
She woke up in a daze, opening her eyes to see the water and floating plants. She couldn’t react for a moment.
Damn it!
What’s going on?!
What happened?!
She’s… in the water?!
That’s impossible! She was clearly in the bedroom of her godfather, lying on his oversized bed, with a nosebleed, in danger for her life, with that infuriatingly handsome man, SM!
She looked down at the sparkling emerald ring on her right index finger and suddenly realized something. She couldn’t help but reach out to take off the ring, but just as her fingertips touched the surface of the ring, the bright light in her vision disappeared. A bone-chilling coldness overwhelmed her, stealing her breath away, as if she were drowning in the water.
Shen Qingmei’s heart tightened. Without thinking too much, she instinctively exerted all her strength to swim to the surface of the lake before freezing to death.
On the shore, she could hear the voices of people, faintly hearing snippets of conversation.
“Yaor, what happened? How did you end up here?”
“Drowning? Where is the Crown Prince?”
“The Crown Prince fell into the lake… When I saw him, he was struggling in the water… But I can’t swim, so I had to send Yan to find help… But, but it was too late. The Crown Prince… sank to the bottom of the lake…”
“What?!” Shangguan Nan Hong exclaimed, waving his hand to scold the palace servants. “What are you all standing around for? Hurry up and go find someone!”
Suddenly, he saw a figure next to him and quickly stopped him.
“Hey! Second Prince! What are you doing… just send the guards into the water! The lake is too cold, you can’t go in, otherwise you’ll get infected with a cold…”
The man in black clothes coldly raised his eyes, “Do you understand anything? Hurry up and save the Crown Prince, otherwise we’ll both die.”
“Prin… Princess… look over there… what’s that… floating… coming up…” Suddenly, the golden shadow floating on the lake caught their attention. The maid’s face turned pale with fear, and she couldn’t help but quietly pull Shangguan Jingyao’s sleeve.
Shangguan Jingyao immediately glared at her, whispering, “What are you afraid of?! Don’t be a coward, keep your mouth shut!”
In an instant, Huangfu Wujie also saw the shadow. He quickly ran to the edge of the lake and jumped into the water, swimming rapidly towards the “corpse” of Huangfu Changan.
Having been immersed in the icy water for a long time, coupled with the strange feeling of discoordination in her hands and feet, Shen Qingmei found it extremely difficult to swim in the water. Just as she surfaced to take a breath, she was submerged again, choking almost to the point of passing out.
In a dizzying blur, she didn’t know how she got out of the water and onto the shore. It seemed like someone had pulled her out, holding her waist – if you could call it a waist – and swam to the shore. Then, amidst the chaos of several people pulling and dragging, she was dragged onto the grassy area by the lake.
“Crown Prince! Crown Prince?!”
“Wake up, Crown Prince! You can’t have any problems! If something happens to you, we won’t survive…”
Several people were shaking and patting her on the side, like autumn wind shaking off leaves. Shen Qingmei felt extremely uncomfortable and couldn’t help but “puh” spit out a bellyful of water. She coughed for a while before recovering her strength.
“Ah! Great! The Crown Prince is awake!”
“You scared me… luckily the Crown Prince didn’t die…”
That tone, amidst the relief, seemed to contain a hint of regret.
Slowly opening her eyes, Shen Qingmei looked around in confusion, turning her head in a circle. The people surrounding her had different expressions and strange attire, resembling the palace maids and servants in ancient costume TV dramas. There was a kind of ancient charm in the air, yet vivid and tangible.
Filming a TV show?!
– This was the first thought that came to Shen Qingmei’s mind.
But she quickly dismissed this explanation.
Because, passing through the crowd around her, she saw, ten meters away, the delicate and graceful girl in a pink dress with a white fur cape, and standing beside her, the anxious maid in a lotus green dress – the appearance and attire of these two people were exactly the same as the master and servant she had seen in her dream-like experience just moments ago!
Shen Qingmei’s heart skipped a beat three times in an instant! It was as if she saw millions of grass mud horses galloping past her eyes…
The scariest thing in the world is not feeling how real and vivid a nightmare is, but waking up and realizing that the nightmare –
is fucking real!
Recalling everything she had seen in that seemingly real and illusionary dream, Shen Qingmei suddenly became furious!
That damned woman dared to push her into the water?! And kick her head with her foot?! And even push her away with a stick?!
Perhaps because she had been transmigrated into this body, the sudden eruption of burning anger and hatred intensified a thousand times, ten thousand times, instantly targeting Shen Qingmei’s mind, wanting to vent it all out!
Suddenly, a chilling glint flashed, and Shangguan Jingyao’s heart trembled. It was as if she had been stung by a bee, and she couldn’t help but raise her gaze to the Crown Prince, who miraculously came back to life after falling into the water.
However, before she could clearly see, she saw a round figure rushing over like a ball, with a speed and momentum that exceeded everyone’s expectations!
“Ah!”
Shangguan Jingyao screamed and in an instant, Shen Qingmei pounced on her, knocking her down to the ground. Then, the terrifyingly plump figure pressed heavily on her, as if it wanted to squeeze out her internal organs along with her!
“Bitch! How dare you hit me! And you dare to try to harm me! Let me warn you, if you dare to provoke me, you’re dead!”
Shen Qingmei sat on top of Shangguan Jingyao, raising her hand and fiercely slapping her smooth as jade face, “Smack, smack, smack, smack,” determined to beat her pretty little face into a pig’s head, or else her name wasn’t Shen!
For a moment, everyone present was stunned by the sudden turn of events, standing frozen in place, unsure of how to react.
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