Chapter 3: Survival Crisis

Chapter 3

That night Rong Dai slept very soundly. She had a long, long dream where she bid farewell to her thirty years as queen and looked forward to the future of this new world.

Gurgle--

Rong Dai was having a sweet dream when her stomach suddenly protested, instantly waking her up from hunger.

She groggily opened her eyes and was momentarily stunned when she saw the big red room. A few seconds later she was fully awake!

She looked around the room, recalling yesterday's events in her mind, her heart pounding excitedly again!

This was all real! It couldn't be more real!

She clutched her chest, filled with mixed emotions of sadness and joy.

For the last thirty years, she had lived in the cold palace for ten years!

From the moment she entered the cold palace, the only thing she waited for was death.

But now, she had died and lived again.

She had wanted to leave that mercilessly dark palace long ago, but she was powerless.

Now she had left, but the road ahead was still filled with confusion and obscurity.

"It's nothing. You are from a prestigious family, there is nothing that can get you down!"

She murmured to herself, bidding farewell to her past self and welcoming her new life ahead.

With complicated feelings, Rong Dai sat on the bed for a long time. Not that she didn't want to get up.

Rather, she didn't know where to start.

Everything was unknown and novel to her.

She could convince herself to accept it, but with only the original host's fragmented memories, she really didn't know what to do.

"Alas, the road ahead will be arduous..."

Rong Dai sighed softly, eventually defeated by hunger, and could only crawl out of bed to wash up.

This was their bridal chamber, with a private bathroom. All the toiletries were brand new.

"Ah! Are you human or ghost?!"

As soon as Rong Dai walked in, she saw someone pop up in front and screamed, almost falling to the ground.

After waiting for a while without anyone answering her, she stared at the mirror and realized the person inside looked exactly like her.

She bravely walked over and reached out to touch it.

Rong Dai: "!?"

It turned out to be a mirror wall!

She pinched her own face and the person inside made the same action.

Huo Mei Shu, Huo Shao Ting's younger sister.

That was her sister-in-law!

"Rong Dai, are you an idiot? Scaring Wang Ma like that in broad daylight."

Huo Mei Shu looked at her with contempt and disdain, obviously looking down on her.

Rong Dai was taken aback. She really didn't know this stuff wasn't edible. She thought it was some kind of pastry.

She looked at Huo Mei Shu a little embarrassed. "Um..."

She had wanted to ask Huo Mei Shu how to use these things. She couldn't be like an idiot, if she didn't even know how to use basic things, her flaws would be too obvious!

But just as she was about to speak, she suddenly remembered the saying: the hearts of others are different.

Her soul was from over a thousand years ago. If others knew about this, wouldn't she be taken as a monster and sacrificed!

No! She absolutely could not say anything!

Rong Dai kept shaking her head as she thought, completely oblivious to Huo Mei Shu's disgusted and idiotic gaze.

"Truly insane!"

After Huo Mei Shu went downstairs, Rong Dai heaved a huge sigh of relief and hurriedly closed the door, clutching her chest and gasping for air.

"No, I have to figure something out!"

Rong Dai was extremely anxious, she never imagined the changes after a thousand years would be so huge that she had become almost useless here!

Cold sweat broke out on her forehead. This was even scarier than when she moved to the cold palace back then!

"That's it!"

She suddenly remembered the talking gadget that the woman in white took out of her bag yesterday. That might be able to solve her burning dilemma!

In a panic she fumbled out her phone, but Rong Dai was also dumbfounded. She didn't know how to use this either!

For the first time, Rong Dai felt what it was like to be in complete despair!

"Heaven wants to destroy me!"

Rong Dai was so anxious she almost cried. She never imagined that she, an empress, would be reduced to this.

Just a moment ago she had confidently said she would live this life well, but now she was facing extinction.

Rong Dai wanted to cry but no tears came out.

"Voice assistant at your service. Master, how may I assist you? Little V can answer anything!"

"W-What are you?!"

Rong Dai had been holding the phone. When she accidentally triggered the voice assistant, it gave her a fright but also a glimmer of hope!

Clutching the phone tightly, Rong Dai nervously organized her thoughts and asked the voice assistant question by question.