Chrome knew this was her master's warning, when she was in another body after dying from old age.
She served as the final Guardian of Vongola Decimo, and tutor to Sawada Tsukishiro, bossu's grandson and his successor as during the time of their children, it was chaos again in their adulthood.
One by one, friends died through sacrifices. Their spouses had fled, taking their children in hiding to raise the next generation to be powerful.
She herself hid to raise her and Mukuro's children. The men of their lives fought hard to win. And she fought hard for her children to live to adulthood.
And another battle that saw to her generation dying one by one. The first to die being Boss who sacrificed himself to save his youngest son from a fatal meeting disguised as a business meeting set up by a treacherous upcoming famiglia when his Hyper Intuition picked up signs.
The seven guardians who were in their forties by then were pissed and razed them to the ground. From top to bottom to even associates in revenge. Leave no stone unturned as Gokudera-san and Hibari-san puts it.
When Dino-san, Hibari-san's husband was killed, Hibari-san's wrath was felt. Italy bathed in his Cloud Flames of rage. His revenge was highly destructive and messy but not even that quelled his grief. He was a Cloud powerful enough for two Skies and he lost both within a year, not even enough time to heal. Such was the severe damage on him, unlike their friends who only have one Sky in Bossu.
What stopped him from slitting his throat was he needed to continue the Cavallone and raised their children. Clones from genetic engineering created by Verde-san bearing the Cavallone name and Hibari-san did his best and wanted only the best for their sons and protected them with viciousness while letting them grow to their power. But when their sons are old and powerful enough, the oldest being twenty, he 'let go'. He endured long enough until his pain was too much even for him.
His last wish was cremation and his ashes mixed with Dino-san's to share their urn together and then thrown at sea together.
Nobody saw this side of Hibari-san any day. It was very romantic. They only saw this side, when Dino-san was killed. After bossu, he was next to die in Vongola.
Gokudera took over Foundation and mentored Bossu's second son to succeed Hibari who had to become Cavallone Regent while Reborn-san mentored Bossu's eldest to succeed Vongola. Hibari didn't have any of his kids succeed him in the Foundation, he had all his sons work for Cavallone due to their bloodline.
And other sad tales she didn't want to recall about their friends. That in the end, its only two guardians surviving to old age. Gokudera, and her. Their generation fought hard for the Eleventh to grow up powerful and survive to their adulthood and have successors.
But for Illusionists who have Strong Wills, sure they die, but their Wills don't. That no matter how, they will always remember. That if their bodies die, they can be reborn as themselves. They just have no control in where and when they end up in. Daemon Spade don't count, as the bastard is hijacking as soon as his body and later hosts dies. He does it quick, before 'what's natural' happens to souls.
Mukuro died ten years before she did and even then it was a permanent death, as he was no hijacker like Spade was, and if he wears a body, its in a way, 'a different man' touching his wife and kids and he hated the idea and finds it repulsive that death was preferable to him.
He once told her that he hoped to be reborn in a normal family and not a lab rat again and get dragged into a Mafia Family again, thank you. He hoped the same for her, before they parted ways for her to be in hiding with their children. Three of theirs joined Vongola and Foundation, while their youngest didn't want to, and would rather live a normal life while caring for their aging mother as when her children left, Chrome was 59. Her eldest son Kiriya inherited the Mist Earring by the time he was 27 years old, with his father living long enough as a Mist Construct just to hand it over and gave his last will before dying.
And true to her husband's words, it happened when she died by natural causes at 78. She died never seeing her son and two daughters to protect her and their youngest sister and her family.
"I'm the only one who got away normal. Everyone else remained fighting until the end." Chrome thought on her deathbed. "I'm all alone now...and I can't find Mukuro's reincarnation anywhere in this present. Maybe he's in the future..." she thought as she can feel her death come. "I hope I can be with him again, but fate doesn't work that way...but I can't stop wishing."
As she died, it was quick, as she was reborn again as a young lady from a chinese household.
Luo Qingtong, eldest miss of the Luo Household, born in some fantasy medieval chinese culture. Last she checked, there is NO 'many continents of magical China' in Earth yet here, plenty! That she is in some place called Zhenyan Mainland, Dongli Kingdom in the east.
As a baby, she was doted on by her family until one day, her parents are gone, and her grandfather raised her.
But thankfully, despite different dimensions...language and hanzi are the same.
Education System is different though, and its a world where Martial Arts is everything, it seems.
The Luo Household answers to grandfather as its current Patriarch.
However, it's divided in allegiances between her family, and the servants chose to whom their loyalty belongs to, even if its grandfather paying their paycheck. So while young, she must make her own retinue!
Families here, are treacherously competitive, that if you let down your guard, be deceived and backstabbed quite literally, you will be stolen from. And those from up high, look down on those below them.
And her current identity is a target to be stolen from so Chrome, now Luo Qingtong must be careful even if she had the advantage of mind-reading with her power.
Luo Qingtong's identity is so lofty with good reason. Her new mother.
With her ability, she saved the 5th Prince of Tianyu Country, Yuwen Mo. He has a twin sister, Yuwen Xue who is 7th Princess and both are children of the current Empress.
He was born with a so-called Cold Body, a condition that dooms anyone without money nor connections to never be able to cultivate. Due to this, he owed mother and then somehow they were engaged. Emperor then gifted mother resources so the fiancee-namely her-will not make his son lose face one day, as well as a Recommendation Letter to the prestigious Shengyuan Academy for martial artists who are of high statuses. Resources grandfather viciously guards for her.
Until she meets this man, she will reserve judgment. Is he like a typical man of this world? Or defying norms and stereotypes, be a good man to her like her first husband? She'll see. But as a good Mist raised by her mentor-later-husband, dare to backstab her? She mastered the art of striking first before you can even think of it!
Mukuro taught her that to protect herself, always strike preemptively after reading anyone around her. Set them up, while keeping her star clean.
...so much to do, so little time.
She must make a praiseworthy reputation as the first step but for that, as a toddler, she roams around for information as a spirit.
For things she needs. About how this world works, everything. Leave no stone unturned!
That, and she sets up bad ends in her family's servant lineup. When her parents left for who-knows-where that as a baby they just got word that her mother got her a prestigious engagement at one year old, it became easy for spies from the second house to get in, in a bid to find where grandfather hid Emperor's gifts for her as her cousin, third miss Luo Xinyi was born sickly. And second family is scheming already for THEIR daughter.
Its normal for parents to plan for their child's future, but what does not make it okay, is that you will steal from your own kin, stealing their future for yours.
You dare?
She's not a Mist for show! As a Mist, she knows her duty!
Creating something from nothing, and nothing from something; thus bewildering the enemy, to render the familigia's true form intangible with visions of deceit.
And right now, due to her situation, her only family with her now, is grandfather. Thus she would help him as he would her.
Thus 'misfortune' befell upon the Luo Household as some servants gets really unlucky with crippling or humiliating ends, which Chrome arranges to pluck weeds off her backyard. Perhaps this should stop the Second House from forcing spies into HER house!
...didn't stop.
Won't stop eh...?
Casualties will pile then.
She also watches out for her grandfather, and telepathically gave him the ability to 'detect bullshit faster' and called it a day. She tried looking for Mukuro here, but her strength as a baby is limited...
...she'll try again when her body's will is strong enough for a countrywide search. If he was not here, she would have to give up, and marry a second love who would love her like he did her.