"Brother Ming, be careful!" This rang in Zhou Ming's head over and over. "Just a little bit longer" He thought, "a little longer and he can see her again".
*In the capital 373 years in the future*
"Hand me the stabilizer Batty" a black robot in the shape of a large bat handed the girl a tool . "All right check and make sure all is in order." The bat looked at the girl. "Master Feng, are you sure this is a good idea?" The girl called Master Feng could tell the robot wanted to say something more "Spit it out Batty, I haven't got all day. If I'm to save my parents I need to do it now." as she spoke she stepped into her machine. The machine Master Feng built was a time machine, She was going to use it to go back and save her parents from the car crash. The first car crash in over 150 years and it happened when her parents needed to go on a trip. The robot held back its words when it saw how determined she was. "Good luck Master Feng" Song Feng looked up at the robot built by her father "Batty you have permission to call me Song Feng. You're more than just a robot to me, we're friends" Batty chirped "Good luck Song Feng" Song Feng pushed the button to close the door.
After it was shut she pushed the on button. Song Feng happened to look up at her desk and saw the gongju that was needed to stabilize the stopping of the machine. "Oh shit…" With a loud screech and massive bang Song Feng along with a couple of stowaways went back in time… Song Feng watched the years rewind. She saw her life playing backwards. When it got to the year her parents died she had reached out but it didn't stop. She pushed random buttons in her machine and the hatch popped open a crack but the machine didn't stop. She got dizzy and blacked out but right before she lost total consciousness she thought she heard her parents and felt a hand on her face.
* Capital City 373 years before. Now known as Imperial City*
Song Feng woke up to a small room. She stared at the ceiling and waited for her vision to focus. Sharp images ran through her mind. Images and people she didn't recognize. After her vision and head cleared up she said one word, "Shit." She had gotten her wish… she went back in time. 373 years. She closed her eyes and a few silent tears fell from her face. She took a while to accept the fact that she would never again see Batty, her parents or her senior brother… ever again as the parts she needed to rebuild her time machine were not around and neither were some of the metals invented yet. She slowly accepted her fate. She knew that because of the wrong part that things wouldn't go to plan. She tried to sit up but found that she was too weak. She looked down at her hands. They were small and very thin, definitely not belonging to a twenty eight year old adult. "Seems like things are a little worse than I thought." She was about to try again when the door to the room opened. Song Feng quickly closed her eyes again. "Zhu Feng?" Song Feng grew stiff. She knew that voice… She knew it and had longed to hear it for almost twenty years. Too afraid to open her eyes and ruin the image she had in her mind she just lay still. Zhu Fang hadn't seen Song Feng's eyes open or seen her stiffen. Zhu Fang sighed, it didn't matter that the girl in front of her was not her daughter. This body she was in gave birth to her and now that she occupied this body she had treated her host's daughter as her own. Song Feng had her eyes closed and tried hard not to cry when she felt a hand touch her face. For so long she had wanted to feel her mother touch her face like this with love. When she was in the machine she thought she felt the same feeling.
What she didn't know was that when she first took off she had accidentally taken with her two passengers and again when she opened the hatch a bit another two. Because the four passengers were outside of the machine, three had arrived a bit earlier than her. However because of the time warp there was one that had gone through a slight change. Zhu Fang looked at the girl on the bed with tears in her eyes. If she was a little bit bigger and a few years older she felt that the girl would look like her daughter. When she had woken up in this world and body she was alone. Her husband and daughter were nowhere to be seen. She had the memories of her host and because she didn't know what to do she just took over the daily life of her host. Her host had gotten pregnant with a man she had rescued. The man didn't know who he was so he worked to provide a home and food for his new wife and child. When he was out getting wood one day he never returned.
The host had tried her best to earn a living to keep the house but with a newborn baby it was impossible. Because of this she had to go live with her sister and brother-in-law. She worked like a dog and they barely had food to eat which is why the host's daughter was so skinny. Because of this Zhu Fang vowed to give the host a better life. She vowed to take care of the host's daughter as if she were her own. However, because it was the middle of winter what she didn't know was that both her host and the host's daughter passed away. Zhu Fang walked over to the bed with a wet cloth. "I don't know if you can hear me but I want to let you know that everything will change soon. You are my daughter and I shall treat you as such." She dabbed the cloth to Zhu Feng's forehead. "I saw her… my Feng'er.. For just a second. She was so beautiful. She has my hair color and her fathers piercing green eyes. We jumped to her. I don't know what happened but i got dizzy and when i came to I was here. Now ill never be able to see her…" Zhu Fang wiped her tears away. Song Feng opened her eyes at this moment. She helped her mother wipe her tears. Zhu Fang was startled. "F-Feng'er?" She jumped up. For a second she had thought... She composed herself. "Feng'er. M-Mother was so worried..." She went to sit back down. She grabbed the cloth again and when she went to wipe Song Feng's forehead she saw that the girl was crying.