A:N- I will try out an Illya-chan version of transmigrating to Miracle Doctor; Abandoned Girl universe
Huangyu's Otherworldly Genius Daughter
No words can describe what happened in the Wedding Banquet that night, that celebrated Hong Fang's marriage to Zhu Gerou.
Ye Huangyu, Hong Fang's first wife before his rise in status was 'thrown to the way side' so quickly to Side Concubine Status, tearfully begged her husband to acknowledge their daughter.
'So noisy, get rid of it for me.' were Zhu Gerou's cold, coy words that Granny Zhang pushed away the post-partum young mother with a palm strike after roughly grabbing the newborn.
'Huangyu, you're a mere side concubine so don't ask for too much!' Hong Fang said coldly.
'So those years were a lie? What you promised me were all lies? Just because your father finally acknowledged you?!' Huangyu cried in disbelief. 'That man I knew and loved for three years, was a lie and this heartless bastard before me is the true you, now that you got what you wanted?! Hateful user bastard!' she shrieked in anger, her hand covering her injury, causing Hong Fang's face to go red as her words were a hint to his true nature, that he wasn't...legal.
Like a torrent, pieces of memory from many years ago came gushing back to Hong Fang like a tape recorder.
That's right, he's a bastard son of the Hong House.
Born of a service maid in charge of caring for the old marquis, there were no affectionate feelings between the two. Then as soon as Hong Fang was born, merely one month old, his mother had died as a result of the main wife's cruelty. Because of that, he became malnourished as a baby and was dreadfully weak with constant illnesses striking his body.
However, he didn't give up even if he was forced to mingle with the other servants.
At the age of ten, he wowed the audience at one of the family banquets with his self-concocted poem. Then at sixteen, he took the main prize during Daxia's annual competition.
He can honestly say to himself, every step of the way over the years had been perfect. Expect one thing. That would be Ye Huangyu marrying into the Hong House.
Towards his first wife, Hong Fang truly did hold some feelings at one point. At the very least, during their initial interaction, his love was true. That's why he quietly married her, because he really did care.
Unfortunately, good times don't last. After the old marquis learned of son's rashness, the elder became outraged and completely cut Hong Fang off from the family's finances. Even worse, his career also took a hit as a result.
That's when his feelings started to shake and dwindle. He didn't want to lose all that he had worked for over the years just for a single woman. As his mood hit an all time low, thats precisely the time where Hong Fang met his current wife Zhu Gerou.
With the emergence of his second woman, the man once again realized his lust for power.
Without hesitation today to restore all he lost, he made the decision to discard Ye Huangyu and their newly born child today.
'Kill that brat already!' Hong Fang barked, wanting to divert attention from what he really is.
'NOOO!' Huangyu screamed at his heartless order, helpless to even get up as Granny Zhang was a Dan Realm expert who is capable of hurting her, a mere Upper Celestial.
Granny Zhang prepared to throw the infant to the floor when suddenly, the old granny howled in pain as her hands began disintegrating, showing a gore of chunky flesh and bone up to her elbows and the baby...floated to her mother who quickly took her baby that...saved itself from a cruel fate. Granny Zhang cried in pain and begged for help, but she lost her voice too, to the disbelieving horror of the entire Hong Family and servants.
'What an immoral father and woman you are, killing an infant for crying and infants cry all the time, so maybe my little siblings won't live long with you as parents as soon as they're born in two months.' everyone gasped at the echoing bell-like, icy voice of contempt from the now-glowing baby.
'Death by childbirth as soon as they cry! I'm OK with being disowned by people like you than grow up in an evil household who can't even raise a mouse if it squeaks! I shall pray for my soon-to-die twin siblings and may they have loving parents in the next life, should they die at the ripe old age of one minute upon leaving such a filthy loose hole!' Zhu Gerou gasped at the baby's words. She has twins and it knew?! Hong Fang wondered what this means for him as is this divine intervention?
'Dear mother, people change as soon as they get status and position. Its like you never knew them at all, like having a black-belly.' the baby continued much to Hong Fang's chagrin. 'You lived a lie even though you did everything for him. A good wife who sadly, scored the wrong man.' the baby talked some more, further painting Hong Fang in a bad light. 'This should perhaps, teach you a lesson to never marry bastards of rich households, perhaps?' and the baby teleported itself and her mother away, leaving a silent hall, stunned by what happened just now.
Outside of Xia City was where Huangyu was teleported into.
'Are you...an angel that became my daughter?' Huangyu croaked out. But the glowing light on the baby began flickering like a dying candle.
'Not really...oh dear, I'm losing time...this body of a baby...can't stay long...leave for safety, now!'
Huangyu did just that, and 'did everything' to go home...the being that possessed her body cannot stay long in an infant's frail body.
What only cheered her up, was that heaven saved her baby by sending an angel to momentarily possess her child, and ruin that wedding day the best way they know how!
Unknown to Huangyu, her baby made that ruse of being unable to stay for long so she'll quit asking questions.
xxx
5 years later...
Nary a trace of that divine being.
Her precious Lingyue is a normal girl. Bright and cheerful having grown up loved by her mother.
But unknown to Ye Huangyu, 'that angel' is now her daughter.
Once a powerful homunculus named Illyasviel von Einzbern, the best homunculus ever produced by the Einzbern Family since her ancestor Justeaze Lizreihi von Einzbern, she was a being who was born with 'all alchemy has to offer'. Born with knowledge and reasoning at the very day of their birth.
Its Illya in her new body.
Like Irisviel, Huangyu was a gentle, doting mother to her. But Huangyu never had a Kiritsugu. She lived the life of a lonely woman as when she returned home with her, Ye Gu her father was stunned to see her, but remembering the day she left home, he became harsh with her and made her live in the dilapidated Northern Manor which was next to the Ancestral Hall with a monthly allowance of ten silver, and only one servant, Nanny Liu to help her mother look after her child. The catch? Huangyu pays Nanny Liu's salary so the money Huangyu actually gets is only 5 silver all in all.
Barely enough to cloth herself and her baby, nevermind feed all three of them. Nanny Liu helped her out in those difficult five years. She offered that while Huangyu finds another means, she will care for Lingyue so Huangyu can eat healthy to have healthy milk for her daughter.
Huangyu was forced to supplement their measly income by hunting in the mountains for herbs to sell to the herb shop for money.
Illya, now Ye Lingyue, grew up in a baby food of wheat porridge and her mother's milk till she weaned, that its porridge and cheap tea since.
Now that she's five and can walk, run and talk, she began learning how to read and write and do math and ahem, learn about her new world after lunch as during the mornings, her mother is in the mountains.
Lingyue didn't mind poverty as her new mother loved her to bits, but her father in this life, is a piece of shit that she missed Kiritsugu...and she realized how he tried to get her back when she overheard Taiga talk to Sakura about Kiritsugu and why he makes frequent trips leaving Shirou behind, but apparently, she never knew because her grandfather ensured it. But when she was five, her mother began going out to hunt-and-sell for extra money as 5 silver ain't getting them anywhere!
And Lingyue was dissatisfied with the food, her palate spoiled by her little brother's cooking.
Shirou really knows how to exploit Reinforcement and Structural Analysis.
Age 6, when Huangyu started Lingyue in Martial Arts and trained her how to cultivate, Lingyue knew that getting stronger here is easy. If for a Magus in Earth, your strength is based on how many circuits you've got of what quality and that's IT, Cultivation has many levels.
The legendary Ghost and Gods realm, Void realm, Avatar realm, Reincarnation realm, Dan realm, Upper Celestial realm, Lower Celestial realm and Constitutional Stage as lowest where most kids are at. How to cultivate? Earth methods of recovering prana are more sufficient!
Considering this girl was once a magus, she knows full well how to absorb mana in the air, ki is no different. She had the ability to rapidly gather concentrated amounts of ki in the air before cultivating it for herself.
Huangyu and Nanny Liu were stunned that Lingyue was a 'genius'...that in one year, she was at 5th cultivational stage that she stopped just to train her body! She was Ye Family's best genius, not her cousin Liuyun as her fourth brother believes. All at age six.
Lingyue then put Shirou's ways to good use. She had Nanny Liu take her out to the market to put an end to their bland and drab diet of rice and tasteless poached, dull vegetables. YUCK. Her baby food of wheat porridge tasted better!
1 gold = 10 silver and 1 silver = 1000 copper. Goods are very cheap, in a way...as a meal in a restaurant in a small town like this is 10 copper at most. Nanny Liu is apparently, not that good in cooking and her mother doesn't even know how.
It fell to Lingyue.
By studying things she touches, she learns how to exploit them best. Sure her way uses up their 5 silver a month, but at least their food is more delicious and with her reinforcing all foodstuff, she and her small family got very healthy. Her mother's sideline gets them clothes and shoes, and other things to spice up their home if only in furniture and decor. They can't renovate their house as that shack was meant for punishment. So they indulged themselves in furniture and stuff.
Huangyu also taught her feminine skills as one day, she would marry thus there are skills she must know and have as expected of a female to appeal as a bride. Nanny Liu taught her how to make clothes, embroider, cleaning, and doing the laundry as Lingyue can already cook but due to her size, relied on Nanny Liu or her mother to do her instructions to cook yummy food. And knowledge regarding food, fashion and medicine always updates that when Illya was 'born', she had modern-day knowledge spanning from 1800s to 1990s. Any backwards than that, food sucks, except for knowledge on how it was discovered and its original processing so the Einzberns only recorded such in food, medicine, hygiene products and make-up so they can make their own any time, if stranded in a no-man's land.
They were stunned that her genius included cooking palatable food they knew fine dining.
She just wished she bothered to study Shirou's style, not deal with the textbook info in her head that she experimented the hard way to cook like Shirou and poured hard effort on it to reproduce 'his flavors' because she hadn't forgotten that he desperately called her to come back and 'don't go' even if his Reality Marble consumed his mind and blades sticking out of him. He stubbornly tried to remember her and begged her not 'to go' the only way she knew he cared about her as family. His cooking was the only way she could 'have a piece of him' with her here.
Ironically for Shirou, what pushed her to sacrifice herself was to fulfill their father's wish of saving the world from a threat only he knew, and saving his soul from being destroyed by his own spell after it ate his body and mind. She then left him in a cage she created, and the rest, is up to Rin and Sakura to find him a body.
So to remember Shirou, she worked hard to replicate Shirou-Style Cooking. She even made pickles. Too bad no sake lees to use, but she could obtain rice bran from baffled Rice Warehouses as to why she'd want the 'waste products'. She simply smiled at the baffled Rice Millers and paid them 10 copper a large sack.
During her lessons, Lingyue learned that Alchemy exists in this china-esque world too.
She learned that the profession Alchemy exists.
'Mom, what's Alchemy?' Lingyue asked her.
'Alchemists are masters of refining materials to create pills that can cause healing or death or breaking through in cultivation, so in a way they also have to be doctors.' Huangyu explained patiently. 'They also refine to create magical tools and high-quality weapons.'
'Their levels are Senior Alchemist as highest rank, followed by typical Alchemists of 1st-9th Cauldron in rank, and the lowest being Quasi-Alchemist.' she continued.
'And the pills are graded, from highest to lowest: Divine, Demi-Divine, Supreme, Excellent, Red, Yellow, Blue and Ordinary being the lowest while weapons have it different: Heaven, Earth, Black, Yellow and Ordinary. So what will it be, Lingyue? Will you be a martialist or an alchemist?'
'I'll do both.' said Lingyue in determination. It can't be that hard, can it? Compared to Earth Alchemy, this is easy-peasy! After all, she was a homunculus who was said to have 'all great achievements of alchemy gathered within her'. That was her pride.
'It'll be hard work, but as long as you have zeal, you can do anything you want!' Huangyu encouraged. Thus Lingyue worked hard in training.
It was an extremely harsh training regime. If Magecraft hones the mind, knowledge, magic circuits and spells, martial arts obviously, hones the body.
Lingyue knew how to develop her muscles and body so she grows up very feminine, reinforcing her own hormones that as she grew up to eight years old, she was a natural beauty with a very feminine face as the relatives soon found out when they were obliged to show up during New Year's.
She grew up healthy as during shopping, Lingyue ensured she casts Reinforcement on every foodstuff they purchased. Vegetables, mushrooms, Tofu and Eggs. They eat meat in winter, and she playfully patted their stomachs to cast Reinforcement on their intestines, to thoroughly absorb all nutrients in food so the body gets all the RDI of any vitamin and mineral the body needs, and truly worthless crap passes out then.
By the time she was eight, she was a Lower Celestial Realm already to her mother's amazement. Lingyue's ability also helped Huangyu recover her cultivation. But!
'Mom, is there better places for cultivating? Doing it in town sucks!' Lingyue complained. 'Progress is too slow!' and that was because they're not the only cultivators in town either.
'Well, if you improve in your martial arts, we can go to the mountains where energy is better.' said her mother. Healthy eating enabled Huangyu to recover from stress and regained her shape.
She began learning Martial Skills...but as Ye Huangyu found out, her daughter's standards...are high. Very high.
Her movements are powerful, sharp and quick she can barely see her move. The martial skills are performed till she can do it instantly in regards to gathering and flow of energy.
By age nine, they train in the mountains, and Lingyue used her unique trait to quickly gather ki to their location for them to cultivate...that not only did Huangyu recover what she lost, she gained more!
Qixing Mountain Range is profound in Yuan and Yin Energy because of Yuan Iron, Xuan Yuan Jade and Xuan Yin Jade mines around emitting such energies. Huangyu is now about to break through to Dan Realm, and Lingyue becoming an Upper Celestial.
'Lingyue, I need a lot of pure Yin Energy for my Small Dan Core, OK? Help me out?'
'Yes mom!'
Lingyue amassed massive amounts of Yin for her mother to develop a high quality Yin Dan Core to prepare for Greater Yuan Breakthrough. It took a year to do so, before filtering Yuan Energy for Huangyu. Her progress was slow as she had to be mindful of her injury.
By this time she herself is a Peak Upper Celestial. Soon to break into Dan Realm herself.
Now, Huangyu got enough money to purchase a book about Alchemy Basics.
'Here you are Lingyue, the Basics of Alchemy.' said Huangyu to Lingyue's delight. 'Be careful with that book alright? Books aren't cheap.' she winced at the price. It took her five years to earn for that book! It cost a hefty 150 gold!
'Ooh! Thank you mom~!' Lingyue squealed, carefully glomping her mother, ensuring she avoids the injury. Huangyu giggled and patted her daughter's head.
'Study hard and work hard, OK?'
'Yes~!'
xxx
"Now then, let's see this book!' Lingyue eagerly opened the book to look at the table of contents just to see what she'd find.
I. Introduction...3
II Rules of Alchemy...5
III Alchemist Ranks and Privileges...15
IV Training the Spirit Force...37
V Refining Materials...50
VI Refining Pills...60
VII Refining Weapons...70
VIII Refining Magical Items...90
IX Words from a Senior Alchemist...120
'Hummm...these books are so thin and small. Expected of ancient culture I suppose...'
Its very easy for Lingyue to memorize a small, thin book...
And she grinned.
She grinned like how a hungry cat just got fish off the dining table.
The technique is different, but results are the same!
Structural Analysis became her best friend in this world, studying every herb and ingredient she finds. Then she learned of their prices in the Herb Shop...
Euro signs flashed in her eyes.
'Oh, mom...'
xxx
Huangyu sold the refined materials in Bo City's Profit House, netting her a lot of gold coins her own eyes popped.
"...for almost a decade now, I'm getting ten silver in allowance, though when I was Lingyue's age, my monthly allowance used to be 80 gold due to my prodigious rise.' Huangyu thought mournfully as she left the shop.
She sold a jar's worth of Vitality Condensing Liquid, a jar of Wuzhen Wine Honey and a jar of 100 Fruit Wine Honey. She easily earned 1500 gold coins for the first, 50000 for the second and 55000 for the third! A whopping 106500 gold! She and Lingyue earned in a month what a month's mansion rent's worth in Xia City!
Well, that is now insignificant. She and her daughter can live well with this if they keep this up!
She bought another book for Lingyue that prices goods produced by Alchemists as well as a book about Pill Recipes on blue, yellow and red, and...on her daughter's request, she hoped if its beyond budget, steal a blue, yellow and red pill so she can study how to make them at home.
Huangyu would rather she use her small chances of escaping undetected and unscathed on swiping that red pill...in Alchemist Tower Headquarters in Xia City. Using her daughter's technique of Structural Analysis, she learned the layout of the building and of hidden passages, traps, and how to get in and out of those and where is what.
It took her a week of study.
She also took a peek at Hong Estate where security upped.
From what she learned from Hong Fang back when he was still a servant in his own home, since the establishment of the kingdom of Daxia, the Hong House had never been toppled. And unlike the other noble houses, which are increasingly declining, this one family only grew more and more prosperous.
As to how they did it, it has much to do with their arrangement of talents.
Different from the other noble children, the members of the Hong House are not permitted to do as they please. For the boys, they must begin their political career at fourteen, seeping into every nook and cranny as they see fit. Then for the girls, their fate are far less fortunate. Forced into political marriages, their future are at the mercy of their family and future husband.
From all this, its easy to see how every chief of this family are very farsighted individuals capable of standing in the correct side of the throne's dispute, especially this generation's chief who supported the current king well before anyone else.
Indeed, Zhu Gerou has twins when she used Structural Analysis on the estate. Yulang for the boy, Yuying for the girl and the youngest daughter by a year, Mingyue who has great talent that at a mere age eight, she's an Upper Celestial in lower level now while her siblings are still at 9th Constitutional Level. Too bad as children of a bastard, they have a snowball's chance in hell in inheriting. Yulang has no hopes of an inheritance thus have to live under the mercy of the Hong House as his father Fang had done despite any of his accomplishments, and the girls have a better prospect, such as getting allowances from their husband...assuming their husband will treat them well, that is.
That, and for her talent, Mingyue got drafted into a well-known-sect, the Sanshenggu and she would be leaving after new year's eve.
Her good counterpart is her daughter Lingyue. Lingyue is now working on her Smaller Yuan Dan Core.
And they're already learning the fine art of being cold-blooded social-climbers. They're being turned into power-hungry monsters growing up, wearing the skins of beautiful children. Never knowing innocence. Never knowing true love from a mother and father. Never knowing the warmth and joy of childhood.
She shook her head and returned to her previous mission. Steal a red pill.
If her daughter can refine such a pill, then all will be safe.
xxx
Qiufeng Town...
Huangyu shuddered.
She managed to get away with stealing from the freaking Alchemist Headquarters without incident as she ensured she did it when all is asleep. Even that monster in Hong House!
Her heart never stopped throbbing in adrenaline.
She's safe.
Upon arriving at home, Lingyue was quick to help her mother's Flight Mode with the right medication to calm her whole body and blood flow.
'Thanks mom.' said Lingyue, taking her mother's souvenirs for her. 'Get some rest before a nice warm bath, OK? I'll cook food today too since Nanny Liu went to visit her grandkids for a week so her jobs are mine for now.'
'Do we have food in the pantry though?'
'Erm...can I have a gold coin for that?' Lingyue asked sheepishly. 'I'll exchange it in the Money Changer before I can shop today.'
xxx
After hiding her red pill and book in a location only Lingyue knew of, she went downtown to the market.
First step: change 1 gold coin into 10000 copper.
Then she can finally shop for food.
A sack of rice, pouches of spices and salt, a whole chicken, 10 kg refined wheat flour for noodles, eggs which she protected with Reinforcement and mushrooms with culinary herbs and some vegetables.
And it's a very...weird sight, that a TINY LITTLE GIRL is carrying all that load by herself, while roof-hopping, indicating she's a martialist.
Upon arriving home, her mouth pooled with drool.
Why?
She missed KFC.
Sadly, Fast Food is NOT in her knowledge when she was born years ago. That when Shirou brought home fast food, she studied how it's made as they were mind-bogglingly-delicious. KFC. Sushi. CoCo Ichibanya Curry. And those pastries and sandwiches!
And she can make it at home any time she effing wants, now! Suuure the package said wheat noodle flour, but she ain't making noodles!
She's making breading for her Kentucky and gravy!
And so...
'Oh wow! Looking good!' Huangyu was amazed as tonight's dinner was unidentifiable but it smells great, a bowl of stir-fry vegetables in thick sauce, and a bowl of soup...and a bowl of...gray-something. 'But what'd you do to the chicken?' she wondered as what's clearly chicken, was covered in golden-brown...something? She also wondered what that gooey gray thing was.
'I mixed flour with powdered spices, then coated the chicken with beaten egg, and then covered it with the powder mix firmly, before dumping it in boiling oil.' said Lingyue. 'And when the surface becomes golden brown, it's done!' she explained. 'The gray thing is the sauce! Dip the chicken in, bite, and yummy!'
'Heeee...'
Huangyu tried it out...oh wow!
She discovered the joy of eating fast food way beyond her era.
Their days were spent in simple luxury with great happiness as they continued living off that huge money they currently have in their possession...while Lingyue studied how to make Pills and how to make them Red...