Just as Tang Li was about to eat dinner after a long day of work, her phone suddenly rang. Seeing the "mom" displayed on the screen, Tang Li silently sighed and put down her chopsticks to answer the call. She could guess what the other person wanted to say, and sure enough, they brought up the topic of marriage again after just a couple of sentences.

  "Its not mom saying it, but at your age, you really need to hurry up and find a man. Youre already 27 or 28, and before you know it, youll be 30. At that time, who will still want you? Dont set your sights too high. Remember when mom introduced you to that guy last time? Hes not very tall, his salary is not as high as yours, but hes local, has a house, and can buy a car if you two get married..."

  The person on the other end of the phone was talking non-stop. After waiting for a while until they finally stopped, Tang Li seized the opportunity to say: "Mom, I dont want to get married yet."

  "That side immediately became excited, Dont want to get married, dont want to get married, how can you be so selfish, just thinking about yourself living a carefree life? Have you ever thought about me, your mother? Others ask me why my daughter is still not married at her age, and relatives gossip is all Im suffering from. You say its simple, but as a girl, what can you do if you dont marry? Im doing this for your own good, Im your mother, would I harm you?"

  Tang Li picked up her chopsticks and started eating quietly, occasionally responding with a sentence. When the phone call ended, she had finished her meal. Of course, it was another unhappy conversation that ended abruptly.

  Although the marriage rush has become more frequent in recent years, Táng Lí still does not want to get married. She and her friends opened a store together, where she works as the head chef, doing what she likes every day, with enough salary. This kind of life makes her feel free and satisfied.

  As for urging marriage and all that, Ill borrow a phrase from "The Legend of the Condor Hero", "He is strong because he is strong, the clear wind blows across the mountain ridge."

  Her biggest advantage is that she has a good temper, and her friends are all envious of her for making delicious food every day and not liking to think about annoying things. Perhaps because of her profession as a chef, Tang Li has a round face, plus a gentle personality that doesnt like to fight, soft and cuddly, from childhood to adulthood, all her friends call her Sugar Ball. At 27, several of her friends around her have gotten married, but they still like to call her Ball.

  Tang Li thought that such days would go on forever, until her mother gave up trying to persuade her to get married. But she didnt expect that before her mother gave up, an unexpected accident occurred first. She went out to attend a friends gathering and halfway through, the bus she was taking crashed off the bridge and fell into the river.

  ——

  In the castle of the northern city, in a closed room, a petite girl let out a moan, struggling like a drowning person, waving her hands wildly, and then suddenly opened her eyes.

  She gasped violently and sat up, only to find herself in a completely unfamiliar place, her face filled with astonishment.

  The door was opened and a kind-faced old woman walked in, carrying dishes of food which she placed on the table. She said to her, "Miss Chu, dont quarrel with our city master anymore, eat something first."

  Chu girl, not long ago just changed a chip, at this moment, Táng Lí is sitting on the edge of the table eating with a confused expression on her face, while eating and looking at her slender arms and hands. She has a slightly chubby figure, her hands and arms are all fleshy, absolutely not as slender as this.

  She probably died in a car accident and became another person, in short, she crossed over.

  How did I end up crossing over into this? After a chaotic and confusing series of thoughts, Tang Li patted her chest, for now, she didnt think about anything else, she had managed to save one life, she should be happy. But she still didnt know where this place was or whose body this was.

  From the architectural style and the clothes on the old womans body, it is not necessarily modern, but if it were ancient, which dynasty would it be? Tang Li carefully asked the old woman, "Can I go out and take a look?"

  The old lady seemed to be a straightforward person, waving her hand and saying, "As long as you dont leave the city lords mansion, its fine. The city lord has ordered that during these days of his seclusion, Miss Chu, you must stay here."

  Tang Li walked out the door with an exploratory mind, initially just wandering around nearby. She saw only maidservants dressed as attendants and guards dressed as warriors. Later, she accidentally stumbled upon a martial arts arena where she saw those warriors wielding swords and emitting various glows, jumping up to two-story high wooden stakes in one leap, and standing on one foot at the top of a tree on a single leaf.

  Peach: “……”

  This absolutely isnt any dynasty she knew of :3

  Tang Li and the old lady who delivered food became familiar with each other, often going in and out of the kitchen because the old lady was the head chef. Sun Dama didnt expect that she would also be good at cooking, after tasting her dishes, she couldnt help but praise, "Its really delicious, your skills are even better than mine! At first, I saw you were so clumsy, now its much better, gentle and soft, just what the city master likes."

  Tang Li didnt even know who this so-called city master was. In the past few days, she had only figured out that this place was the North City Masters Mansion and that her bodys name was Chu Li. Everything else was unclear. Afraid of being discovered, Tang Li also didnt dare ask more questions. She just thought it would be better to leave here early and go somewhere where no one knew her.

  She didnt want to, but just as she came out of the kitchen with a box of pastries and was about to return to her room, she ran into trouble. A lavishly dressed young girl with over ten servants blocked her way.

  "Chu Li, let me tell you, my brother-in-law, Xuan Yu, is the lord of Beicheng City, a noble and esteemed person. Youre just a lowly commoner, dont think that just because he brought you back, you can rise to greatness. As long as Im around, dont even dare to think about it." The young girl said with arrogance and malice, sneering: "Ive seen many women like you who try to cling to Xuan Yu, you need to be taught a lesson."

  Peach: Huh? What?

  The girl beckoned with one hand, "Throw her into Ghost Wailing Forest."

  Tang Li didnt even have a chance to say a word before her mouth was covered, she could only hold the pointy heart box tightly as she was carried and thrown into a dark and eerie forest like a bundle of goods.

  Surrounded by dense fog, the dark and terrifying branches of trees crisscrossed, with no path ahead and unable to see where she came from. Tang Li stood still, holding a pastry box, feeling an inexplicable sense of familiarity about everything, but couldnt quite put her finger on what it was that felt so familiar.

  She heard the howling wind around her, and her heart was a little scared, worried that there might be ghosts inside. The big brother who threw her in just now jumped three meters high, and the sword in his hand was shining, which was not scientific at all, so its possible that this forest also has unscientific ghosts.

  Alone here, Táng Lí felt scared and couldnt help but open the pastry box to take out a piece of pastry to nibble on. It was at this moment that a fiery red animal resembling a fox appeared at the edge of the woods, looked around for a while, then approached and let out a low cry.

  Tang Li fed it a piece of pastry, and the fox took the pastry in its mouth, let out a soft cry, and led the way forward. Tang Lis face lit up with joy, and she hastily lifted her skirt to follow. They walked for a long time, until Tang Li felt like she couldnt walk anymore, when a faint light began to emerge from the front. The fox let out another soft cry, jumped into the fog, and disappeared from sight.

  Tang Li sighed and wanted to chase after, although she didnt catch up with the red fox, but the white mist in front of her became thinner and thinner, and the trees disappeared. After walking out for a dozen or so steps, the scene in front of her suddenly opened up. A sun hung at the edge of the sky, and the crimson sunset glow spread across the horizon, reflecting off the countless barren hills in front of her.

  Put down the small box, Táng Lí sat on the ground and patted her legs. She had to pat them, she was so scared by the scene in front of her that her legs went soft.

  There are no trees in front, only countless rolling hills. On these small hills, tattered flags were inserted, and countless corpses that had turned into white bones were knocked down. The wind was very fierce. Is this an ancient battlefield or what? Why are there so many white bone corpses?

  Tang Li felt a chill run down her spine, wanting to run, but in front of her was a mountain of corpses, and behind her was the complex and eerie white fog forest, she didnt want to go anywhere.

  What is this place... A sudden flash of inspiration struck Táng Lís mind, and he suddenly realized where his familiar feeling came from.

  The Lord of North Castle, Xuan Yus elder brother, Chu Li, the Ghost Wailing Forest... Tang Li connected these into a line and found relevant clues deep in her memory.

  She read her first book in the third year of junior high school, a sentimental novel with a tragic love story. At that time, this kind of thick romantic novel was very popular and could be rented from nearby bookstores.

  In that book, the male lead is the lord of Beicheng in Sifang City, called something like Xuan Yu, she forgot his name. The female lead seems to be her, Chu Li. Tang Li doesnt remember the details very well, only roughly. It seems that the female lead was an orphan who wandered around since childhood and met the male lead because of her appearance being similar to the male leads white moonlight. So the male lead brought her back to Beicheng, and the two were a quarrelsome but loving couple. The male lead fell in love with the female lead during this process but refused to admit it because his white moonlight was severely injured while saving him and fell into a coma. He felt that he couldnt betray his white moonlight, so he treated the female lead coldly sometimes and warmly at other times. The female lead unintentionally discovered the existence of the white moonlight and found out that she looked exactly like herself, thinking that the male lead took her as a substitute.

  The entanglement of the two people gradually entered a beautiful state, and the misunderstanding was about to be resolved. However, Bai Yueguang woke up and instigated the male lead to harm the female lead. As the vicious female supporting character, Bai Yueguangs true face was finally exposed, and the female lead ultimately had a perfect ending with the male lead. The most melodramatic plot twist was that the female lead and Bai Yueguang were actually twin sisters, but they were separated at birth, and the female lead lost her identity. The male lead mistakenly thought he met Bai Yueguang for the first time in his childhood, when in fact it was the female lead, because the twins looked identical, leading to a misunderstanding. Additionally, Bai Yueguangs supposed heroic act of taking an arrow for him was actually self-directed and staged.

  At that time, the female classmates around Tang Li were all infatuated with the male leads coldness and overbearingness, but only Tang Li was different. She hated the hypocritical male and female leads to death, and her heart ached for the devoted supporting male character.

  A ruthless assassin, known as the "Deadly Slave", is a formidable killer with no emotions or feelings. He is considered the best in the world, but after being saved by the female lead, he silently protects her and eventually learns what love is, ultimately sacrificing his life for her.

  At first, because of the question of who was better between man one and man two, Tang Li had a big fight with her deskmate. That was probably the first time that good-tempered Tang Li quarreled with someone so fiercely. Later, it was also because Xun Nu died inside, Tang Li cried for two days.

  If she didnt remember wrong, the first time Li Shunnu met the heroine was at Gui Ku Yuan after Gui Ku Lin. He had been seriously injured and was thrown into Gui Ku Yuan by people in his organization who were jealous of him. At the moment of his death, he met the heroine.

  That is to say, Xun Nu is now among those piles of corpses in front of her, and she has become the heroine Chu Li, who must go save people.

  Tang Li gazed out at the endless piles of corpses, hugged her small treasure box tightly and stood up. Her first love, her male god from her teenage years, even though it had been over a decade ago, was still special. Although she didnt know why she had transmigrated into this story as the female lead, now she had to go save him, or else he would die!

  She stepped on the crispy bones and tattered clothes, walking shallowly in the pile of corpses. On the bodies that had been there for years, she saw newer ones that hadnt fully rotted yet, emitting waves of foul odor. The scavenging birds gathered together to peck at the corpses, startled by Tang Lis footsteps but not flying away, instead turning their heads to stare at her and making loud cawing sounds.

  This scene is a combination of horror and disgust. Tangerine wandered around on the small hills, only to find that she had no idea which one was Xun Nu, so she could only discover a fresh corpse and go check if the other party was dead.

  After searching for more than a dozen small hills, only a thread of light was left on the horizon. She finally saw an unusual black figure in a desolate ruin of bones.