Somehow, despite being a huge connoisseur of Reincarnation Stories, I was still surprised to be reborn.

Of course, it got clear very quickly that I wasn't a protagonist.

Well, my Luck at the very least was protagonist-like in an unfortunate sense: I was reborn in what seemed like ancient china.

And I was, once again, a girl.

In ancient China.

Do you understand my dilemma?

Girls were treated as good as cattle: If you got one, you had to sell it to the highest bidder and other than that, she should behave or be punished horrifically.

I had a lot of problems learning how to speak Chinese (or... whatever language this was. Mandarin?) and be properly demure by my new societies standard, especially later on when I stopped caring about it, so I and my Mother, who was only the 6th Wife, spend a lot of time in the cold palace.

I only noticed that I wasn't in my dimension when my fourth oldest brother died (I still didn't quite understand the whole naming-mechanism, I think he was the son of the 3rd wife?) and my honourable father (the pig, as I called him) called in a cultivator.

He was so cool!

He wore gold, and was arrogant, but the way he could fly on his sword and the way he looked flawless?

Amazing.

I asked around and the more I knew the better I liked it.

Immortal Cultivators?

It was clear what I would do.

No more Reincarnation for this one, no sir, I will become a Cultivator and never die again!

I was nine when I got my first period and, seeing the old geezer the pig wanted to marry me to, I got the hell out of dodge.

I had planned to get out once I was twelve or something like that, once I had more money and valuables hidden away, but I had to act now or be stuck.

Without my smarts I would have been dead twice over before the month ended.

I had had the forethought to dress like a boy and dirty my face and my clothes, which saved me from being raped or sold to a brothel or into slavery.

Or worse, being caught and forced to go back.

Still, the usual homeless problems showed up:

Being cold all the time, not having a roof over my head, fighting with other street-kids and so much more problems I had never thought of.

Until now I always had something to eat: not having that guaranteed anymore was something I still had to get used to.

Or always being dirty. I felt filthy, but it was still early spring and it wasn't warm enough to bath in a river.

Something they never described in books is the way you smelled worse and worse every day, your sense of smell dampening just because of the way you rank.

The worst however, was the hunger.

I never realised just how used I was to three square Meals a day until I had to go without. In my last world you could choose whatever exotic thing you wanted and as long as you had money, you got it!

I knew that there had been Hunger as well, but it had seemed too far away with a full pantry at home and full supermarkets at the next corner.

Even in this place I had gotten plenty to eat.

Even the cold palace served food, even though it was simple fare and didn't taste good.

But on the streets?

It was amazing what you would eat when you starved.

Especially in the beginning, when I was less practised and only survived on the bark of some trees, my hunger was nearly my end.

Good thing that I was the most stubborn person I knew.

There was one good thing in being homeless: I could listen to the gossip all day long and learn a lot of interesting things.

For example, that the trials of Cang Qiong Mountain were held at the end of summer.

From that moment on, I travelled towards the Mountains.

I stowed away on carriages where I could, but I had to walk mostly.

Again, I was so very happy for my intelligence: I had memorized a few plants-books for edible ones and those are what fed me over the months I travelled.

After the first period of homelessness I didn't have to depend on bark anymore, if you got enough practise you could easily differentiate plants from their poisonous twins.

I didn't know what I would do without that knowledge.

Probably starve.

Hello,
This Fanfiction is finished, I am just editing and uploading, here as well as AO3.
I plan to update a chapter every day, but my life right now is stressfull and I might miss a week... but as it is finished, you will have the whole Fic soon enough.
English is not my native Language, please tell me of any mistakes I make.
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Profimacher2