Awakening
Nnnnn...
The girl moaned as her life flashed before her eyes.
Living in the Butterfly Mansion with her family.
Killed by demons.
Taken by Himejima Gyomei to train as Slayers.
Kanae becoming Pillar and she her Tsuguko.
Losing Kanae after she was thirteen.
Then after becoming a Hashira, she kept losing her Tsuguko. Except for Kanao.
Discovering a way to defeat Muzan for good thanks to discoveries made in Swordsmith Village.
Finally, her death and getting to taunt Doma in limbo, before joining her sister who waited for her before going to tell Kanao she did a good job, before going to their parents.
It was a sweet victory and after that, was warm light.
However!
Instead of Heaven, and paradise with her family...it's dark again?!
Memories flashed...but, they weren't hers.
Its a strange world. But a lot prettier. Even clothes are so pretty, even people. Language different though.
She found herself now a royalty. Her mother was the Princess Royal - meaning, she's the first princess born in the royal family.
She was however, bestowed to an adulterer who can't keep it in his pants, and favored his concubines more than his legal wife OPENLY at that, which is rude, but mother didn't care. Feeling's mutual anyway.
So she gave her only child all her love. But she, the daughter didn't have a fun childhood out of necessity.
Starting at age four, her strict education began. Literacy. Arithmetic. Manners and Etiquette. Law. Martial Arts Education and body training for martial arts. She also consumed a lot of pills for her health and beauty.
However, at age six, the age to discover her Spirit Foundation...its discovered that she cannot cultivate that she became the butt of jokes nationwide, as well as target of cruel scorn and contempt. Her mother tried her best, but angry at what she was hearing in what people say about her.
Her body training and martial arts continued regardless though in memory, the girl was heartbroken and distraught at what people say about her.
And when her mother died...
Everything was over.
Weeks after she fell ill for months and never recovered, she was relocated into a filthy shack, and her home and everything stolen from her!
She was said to be ill that she won't live past her eighteenth birthday!
Charlatans!
She'll remind them of their place!
In the eyes of the body of Princess Huang Beiyue, ten years old...
Kochou Shinobu opened her eyes.
She got up.
"This body is really weak." she frowned.
She remembered that Concubine Yuki-san...wait no, Xue. Gotta get used to this world's names...gives her medicine out of kindness, but never got better.
That should have been a red flag from the start!
Why didn't this naive girl realize that?
Oh yes...she wanted to delude herself that someone out there is still kind to her. She wanted to deny the cruel reality and forced upon herself rose-colored glasses.
Idiot. But a sad, idiot girl.
Shinobu shook her head as she made her way to the cupboard where her weekly dose of medicine is.
She took it and sniffed it.
It's just stupid grass juice due to how it smelled. However...she cut herself a bit by biting on her thumb and made her blood drop on the table, then took a drop of medicine and dropped it on her blood.
Blood changed the wrong way.
Poison.
"Bitch...!" she growled. Poison her, will they?!
She snuck into Glistening Lake Pavilion, her former home. It was taken over by Concubine Xue and her two children, Yun and Zhonglei. Since she has no ki, sneaking around is easy. It helps that Xue wasn't in her bedroom. Probably sleeping with Yuancheng.
Glistening Lake Pavilion is the most beautiful pavilion in Xiao Estate. It was once her home. This room her mother's room.
This usurper stole everything from its rightful owner. Daring to enjoy herself in her mother's room?!
She searched the room for poison, and found a jar of dark green pills, and a small jar of liquid poison. Surely she won't miss three pills, bitch.
She also found the woman's Lam card. A magic card where money is stored.
For now, as she has nothing to put the money in, she took the card home with her after remembering how she found it, and withdrew 100.000 gold coins from it, before putting it back. 100.000 gold coins is enough to live for five years if spent on just quality food and clothes as well as life's necessities.
She then took a nice small container of water, and put all three pills in, melting it into the water till it went dark green, like the 'medicine' she takes...and dunked all chinaware in it as well as cooking pots and pans!
She also poured some in perfume bottles.
See how you like your poison!
She then went to Buji'er Market.
All is closed of course.
But!
With a nice skill called 'tile removing', she snuck her way in.
First off, she stole a Space Ring. A neat item where she can store anything she wants in it, and she stole the best one wherein the space within, is the size of a city. Goodness knows her...siblings brag that father bought them one...with HER money by the way!
After stealing the Space Ring and snuck out, she stole cookware, chinaware, chopsticks, rice, a month's worth of condiments, food and vegetables, and large Fire Crystals and one large Water Crystal for livelihood...then books.
Books about Elixirs and Herbs so she knows what to steal next time and how to treat her body of it's ills. She also stole the pills her mother made her take for her bones, muscles and the vanity ones. Her skin is already white anyway. The skin whitening ones are mostly, for Dongling. She was familiar with pills her new mother feeds her. Just...not familiar with pills she really needs for her situation.
By the time she came home, it's sunrise.
Its easy to sneak past servants just waking up to start cooking.
She started cooking in the open air so the smell will quickly disperse.
Rice, and Japanese Dishes she can make. Too bad no Konbu. She also cannot use spices for now as she has no idea what herbs here are...
'Huh? Miss? You're...cooking?!' Dongling, her maid squeaked in disbelief. 'But where on earth did you get them all?!'
'Ah, they won't know what they'll never miss. They got way too many of this stuff anyway.' Beiyue smiled. Right, she has to get used to being Beiyue now. But deep in her heart...
...she will always be, Kochou Shinobu.