Waking up after the sensation in a void like darkness, she had only experienced it twice but it gave her a premonition.

Reincarnated again?

However, the pain and weakness made her frown, this is not the sensation when one reincarnated in a baby.

Our little protagonist is still in a daze, trying to anchor herself down but the world is spinning and there is cotton on her head.

Closing her eyes and took a few deep breaths. After finally getting rid of that dizziness, dark eyes open, glaze sharpened as she took in the details.

'Isn't this…. Cloud Pavilion?' looking around at the old and rundown place which she was banished to in her first life, 'Could it be… my first life!'

As if to confirm her guess, er long time no seen maid, friend, and sister in all but blood, cam in carrying a basin of water and cloth

"Miss! You're awake!" Dongling exclaimed with delight, "Please lie down first, you really scared this servant. Your fever was so high last night, Miss. I feared for the….. Miss? Why are you crying?"

Huang Beiyue is indeed crying.

"I'm back…" she breathed out, couldn't believe it but at the same time did.

And Huang Beiyue did what she had always wanted to do.

She rushed over to Dongling and embraced her tight, "I'm sorry!" Huang Beiyue cried, "I'm so sorry!"

Dongling was startled, the basin dropped from her hands as she caught the crying and wailing princess, "Miss?"

Huang Beiyue cried. Only now seeing her most loyal companion that she had realized how long she had missed her.

"I'm sorry, Dongling…"

"What are you sorry for, Miss?"

Huang Beiyue hiccups

"I'm sorry for not being a good enough master…. I'm sorry for not being there…. I'm so sorry for being such a coward. Your loyalty deserve a deserving master." Huang Beiyue cried.

I'm sorry for leaving…I'm sorry for not being deserving of you…I'm sorry for letting you suffer with me…I'm sorry for being so selfish and not letting you go..There are so many things I want to say but all I know is that…I'm so sorry for keeping you here with me when you could have fly and be free… but thank you so so much for staying with me even at my lowest.

Huang Beiyue cried and seemed to be inconsolable.

Dongling is helpless as she only held the Princess tightly.

So there's that.

After the crying session yesterday, Huang Beiyue had swollen eyes, even if wiping with cold and wet cloth. It's still swollen with how much buckets she had poured yesterday.

Now, other business must be dealt with.

Huang Beiyue narrowed her eyes.

It's been so long, Cultivating has been a difficult concept to grasp given she's most use in Chakra and the inner energy she practiced in both second and third life respectively.

Oh she had read novels alright.

Specially in her third life as Ye Lian, that life in Modern Era.

It still didn't escape her that Cultivating is a strange concept to her now. She lived decades as an Uzumaki where she was a Chakra tank (like most Uzumaki are), improving by drying it up by rigorous training and then once recovered, it will get bigger. Cultivating reminds her of Jiraiya's Senjutsu mode. Taking in nature energy into one's body.

Huang Beiyue is just worried… that she will turn into a toad.

Hey it's a legal crisis AND reasonable concern.

Alright, intermission is over, moving on.

The Xiao Family leeching over her Huang Huiwen's hard earned riches and bestowed fief that as her daughter, it should have been Huang Beiyue's!

The chibi Uzumaki Akane on her left shoulder, "We should just assassinate them all, write down their crimes and hang their corpses on the city gates!"

Huang Beiyue pulled a face, "We're not taking that morbid idea! Even as a Shinobi, that's disdainful!"

The chibi Ye Lian on her shoulder, "Or we could contact help. We have our connections, don't we? As much as I would like to deal with them… but at the current situation, we are powerless! We have to grasp the biggest advantage we have…"

The two light up, "The Emperor!" realizing that indeed, the biggest card she has is that she's a favored niece of the Emperor.

Huang Beiyue hesitated, "Does he care enough though?"

Uzumaki Akane huffed, "Honey, listen. The Xiaos is beginning to isolate you so that you can't get out. They are starting on that already and will definitely kept a tight hold on you. We should get a move on. Even if we use 'Pretend to be a pig to eat the tiger' we still need money and resource. If you don't want to do it for ourselves, do it for Dongling"

This motivated the Princess with the surname Huang, "Alright. I will do it! If not for us, then for Dongling."

Ye Lian smirked, golden amber eyes glittering with mirth, "That's the spirit. Now get out there and give a satisfying show! If you fail and embarrassed us, we'll pretend we don't know you!"

Huang Beiyue nodded, ignoring the last aggro pulling sentence, "Will do! Thanks you guys!"

Huang Beiyue had decided that she has to split three of them. It's hard but it went well. Yamanaka san said it's not good to do it but given that it was war during that time and its helping her cope up, he can only (read: reluctantly) held up a green light, although he was keeping an eye on her and roping in as many as he could while he's at it.

It seems Ye Lian emerged as another alter ego and Huang Beiyue herself dominated the body. By separating them yet still merged, Huang Beiyue can ask their opinions.

Three heads are better than one.

A week, she had decided to wait for a week or two.

In the mean time, her biggest obstacle to date is how to manage her current dilemma.

Huang Beiyue has two networks.

One for Chakra Pathways. The points, the Chakra pools. It's all there and along with the other, one she supposedly guess are for Cultivation.

(That's a cheat if you ask her. Ye Lian had cackled up a storm about it.)

For some reasons, her Chakra did not disappear. It's there, a steady stream she had dearly missed.

Its absence when she was Ye Lian made her miss it but as Huang Beiyue, she quickly realized it's overwhelming amount. It's too much like a vast ocean.

Huang Beiyue's attention strayed to her forehead.

That's right, her forehead.

The Byako no In, it also came back to her.

Huang Beiyue is outright confused as to why this was but she's going to take this on a stride and let it slide. Frankly, it's because she had no explanation of why that was so she's going to just pretend to smile and act as if everything's in control and normal.

That mindset kept her sane most of the time. And it's not going to fail now.

A habit long lost, she pulled her Chakra towards her seal. Filling up the already filled reserve and expanding it to accommodate more Chakra.

It's like creating a core described in novels, but on the forehead instead of the dantian.

Her Chakra is bound to attract unwanted attention. She can't cultivate now, her defected dantian will not allow her to do so and fixing it right now is not advisable when she still has poison by bitch Xue in her body.

In the meantime, let's work on hiding her Chakra signature. Seals are really her best friend, after all.

Huang Beiyue was reminded, once again, why Dongling was and will always be her favorite.

Dongling saw her busy and writing on a piece of paper but did not question it. Nor did she question when Huang Beiyue came back after raising the kitchen for food.

Confused and curious she may be but Dongling only smiled, "I won't ask Miss. I know you will tell me when the time is right. Until then, I won't question you."

But Huang Beiyue had a feeling that the shenanigans she will pull in the future, Dongling will definitely ask out of exasperation or mortification. Whichever comes first.

Fun and relaxing times never mean to last for a long time.

Xiao Yun just bought a Dazzling Snow Cat for a summon in Bugiel Auction House using the money Huang Beiyue certainly did not permit them in using.

How audacious!

Sure enough, they began to mock her and bully her.

Huang Beiyue sneered inwardly and when the day Xiao Yun became a Summoner through using HER money.

Huang Beiyue knew it's time.