I never thought that I would ever needed help with putting cloths on, but I guess not in this world. Never knew that hanfu would be this hard to put on.
I have mostly worn black cloths when I was still alive in my world, since time is money, black is the easiest color to take care. But now, I have so much time on my hand, I feel like I should start wearing different color, so I chose the light brown color hanfu that the servant put out for me to choose from.
As the young servant girl dress me up, I look at her face. Once again, the young girl that is serving me right now looks different from the other two that were serving me yesterday
"Say, how long have you served me for?" I asked her
The girl gave me a light smile and softly said, "I have been serving young miss since we were both young."
"Right, then do you remember the questions that I asked you yesterday?" I continued asking.
"Questions? I apologize young miss, what questions did you ask me yesterday?" She confusingly asked me.
I was correct, my interactions with Si Ming is not a dream, and whatever he said... I guess I should believe in it for now.
I gave her a light smile and said "Nothing, never mind."
she nodded and went back to dressing me.
Once she finish putting the hanfu cloths on me, I looked at the mirror and gave a slight nod.
The inner robe is beige while my outer robe is a light brown color, it looks better on me than I thought. Wearing black for majority of my life makes me almost forgot how I look with other colors on me.
When the young servant girl picked up a comb that was on the wooden table and was about to brush my hair, I stopped her and told her " I can take care of it myself, you can leave now, thank you."
She put the comb back to the wooden table and gave me a slight bow then walked out of the room and closed the door.
When she left I looked at the mirror that is reflecting my straight long black hair that is left messily loose. I then took the comb and start combing my hair. As I brush my hair, I try to remember as much as I can of this world's original storyline, but for some reason I just can't remember much of it. Plus, after my interaction with Si Ming, I am pretty sure that the story has just begun, but I am just not sure how far the story's beginning has begun.
Well... since sitting around does not help me remember much, I might as well go out and walk around this city. I can also take it as a chance to see how the world that I have created is like in real life.
So I put my comb down on the table then took my beige color ribbon and used it to tie my hair up. I have never used a ribbon to tie my hair before so I can only tie it in a low and loose ponytail style. Seeing that it's loose, I grab a reddish brownish wooden fazan that is laying on the table and twirl it around my ponytail then stick it in between my hair. I look at myself through the mirror, although my hair is kind of messy, I was still satisfy with it seeing that it is staying in place and left the house.
I opened the gate of my house and stare at the alleyway that I ran down yesterday, nothing changed.
Then I look up at the board that is above my gate, it is still nameless like yesterday.
I close the gate that is behind me and start to walk down the alleyway to get familiarize with it. I finally reach the main street that I also stopped by from yesterday, and also just like yesterday, it is overcrowded with people.
As I walk down the street I smell food that are being sold the vendors, the noises that the people make and the sensation of the people accidently bumping onto me makes me further realize that I am really not in a dream, but a reality. This world, the story that I wrote myself, became my reality.
It feels strange knowing that something supernatural like transmigration would ever happen to me.
As I am familiarizing myself with this world and the things that are happening around me, my stomach starts to grumble. I realize that I haven't eaten anything since I woke up, although I don's know what time it is right now, but I am sure it is around noon, since the sun is quite up high in the sky.
I saw a vendor that is yelling "Selling tanghulu!! Come and buy one!!"
I am not a fan of sweets, but seeing that this world is also selling that is similar to my world, I went up to the vendor and said "Give me one those"
The vendor smiled brightly at me and took one out from his stash, handed to me and said happily "5 copper coins"
I open the money pouch that I took from my room, and all I see is silver and gold looking nugget. Not sure how the currency works in this world, so I took out one silver nugget looking thing and handed to him.
The vendor looked at me with a flabbergasted expression and told me slowly "young miss, this is too much..."
I look at the vendor expressionlessly while biting on the tanghulu that I bought from this guy and said "Is it?"
The vendor open his eyes a wide and said "Of course!! You can buy 40 tanghulu with the silver nugget, young miss!!"
"I see, so I guess the common sense would be the copper being the lowest value, then comes the silver and gold nuggets. I guess I am rich in this life" I thought to myself while nodding my head.
Seeing that I have quite a lot of the silver and gold ones in my pouch, and knowing that I will continuously have this much, I said pridefully to the vendor "Keep the change" then I walk away.
If it was back in my original world, I would have never imagine myself telling people to keep the change, but I guess it is different now.
Although that bastard Si Ming accidently killed me because of his own mistake, I guess he still has some consciousness left making me rich in this world.
Knowing that I'm finally rich, I walk down the street happily as I eat my tanghulu with delight.
A sudden harsh tone yelled out "You little sh*t! You dare to steal my things!"
The surprise got me drop a piece of my tanghulu that was in my mouth from.
When I look up to see which bastard disrupted my peaceful time, I start to see a overcrowded circle that is forming in the front. Seeing that their is a show to watch, I also went up and squeeze through the circle of people to see clearly what's happening.
Standing in the middle of the circle is a fat man grabbing onto a boy's arm. The boy tries to wiggle out of the man's arm but sadly, the size and strength difference made the boy impossible to escape from the fat man's hand. So the boy starts to scream loudly, "Let go of me! Let go!"
This anger the man further and he threaten the boy "You little sh*t! You think that you can get away after stealing! Don't you know you have you to pay the price for stealing, and today, will be one of your arm!"
To be honest, I kind of agree with the fat man. Before people steal, they should've understood that there is a risk whenever they do something like this, and if they got caught, then they have to pay the price. Although this boy may still be a kid who is still naïve and not understood much about this world, that doesn't mean that there are no responsibility for him to shoulder, especially if you are within the lower status of human society. I understood it myself quite well, since I've been through situation that is similar to this.
"Sure is a unlucky day for him" I sighed quietly.
When the fat man was about raise his hand that is holding the knife, a stone suddenly flew by me and hit the man's hands very hardly, which made him loosen his grip on the boy.
A slender figure that is wearing a all white wuxia hanfu flew down into the middle of the crowd and pull the boy behind her.
"Does bullying someone that is weaker and smaller than you makes you feel prideful" a feminine voice asked. Although the words that are coming out of this voice is full of critiques and disgust, it has a mellow and elegant tone. I became curious on how this owner's voice look like, so when I look up to see how this person looks like, I was in aww.
Her jawlines are slim and it perfectly matches her roundish chin. Her eyebrows are nice and straight, with a high nose bridge and a roundish nose tip. With her lip being naturally pouty and has a tint of redness, while her clear eyes are stashed with naturally thick and long eyelashes, making people misunderstand that she might have makeup on. All of these details on her face makes her look soft and mellow, but elegant at the same time, just like her voice.
I wasn't the only one that was captured by her beautifullness, everyone was amazed by her beauty, including the fat man that was screaming in pain before, but stopped after seeing this girl's face.
As everyone was still in aww by her appearance, she pulled out a pouch from her waist and threw it to the man and said in a calm tone, "Inside is enough to cover everything that this boy has stolen."
The fat man was stunned for a few second, but he picked up the pouch and opened it. He was shocked at the amount of silvers that are in the pouch, it was just enough, but also enough to buy everyone's meal for today. However, the man looked at the girl and smirked disgustingly then said "Of course it's enough, but he made me lost my face today, so don't you think that you should also pay for that? And You yourself is definitely enough"
"Eww..." I blurted out without realizing, luckily, the girl was disgusted herself also, so before the fat man turned his head towards me she said with a disgusted voice "You ugly person like has no right to talk about face, since you don't have any when you were born either way."
The man face got red from anger and embarrassment after hearing that girl's comment, and he said angrily "Just you wait, I will make you regret everything that you have said today!" and he waived his hand. After he waived his hand, three five guys came out into the middle holding a sword.
The girl rolled her clear eyes and pulled out the sword that she has been holding in her hand, then said "Are you sure you should be the that's talking?"
"OMG, this is so exciting! I would've never believe that I'll ever see people fight with swords in real life!" I screamed in my head as I hold my hands together tightly while curiously thinking who'll be the one that wins the fight.
....Wait, hold up, why does this scene looks familiar to me?
Few seconds later, I realized that this is actually the scene in the beginning of the story where the female lead, and male lead first met. The female lead in this scene is a hero who saves a child from a bad guy, if the child is this boy, the bad guy is this fat man, the female lead should be this beautiful girl, named Jing Xing.
If the Jing Xing, the female lead is here then the male lead, Si Yue, should be somewhere....
I look up and see if he is in any of the restaurant's balcony, since the male lead, Si Yue, should be "watching the show that Jing Xing is having with those people."
I saw a man wearing an all black hanfu, sitting at the third floor of a restaurant with a balcony sipping on his tea, looking down, while enjoying the free show that is being provided to him.
That should be him.
Just like how I described him in the story, a man that wears black majority of the time, his hair is sleeked up with a bun tied with a jade fazan. He has thick eyebrows with a high nose bridge. His almond shaped eyes are also naturally filled with long and thick eyelashes, together with his jawlines that are so sharp that if you touch it with your finger, you might actually cut yourself with it. If he is not sitting somewhere that is not visible to people's eyes, male and female would've stare at him instead of the show between Jing Xing and the fat man.
If I remembered it correctly, there is actually 6 people that are together with the fat man and not just five. When the 6th man pops up from a surprise attack on the female that is when the male lead safes her.
As I was finding the male lead and thinking about the next scene that'll happen, the female lead, Jing xing already beat up all the guys that tried to attack him. Jing Xing has been learning martial art throughout her life up in the mountain, together with her mother before she passed away, which is the reason why she came down to find her father, since it was her mother's last wish.
Male lead that is handsome and knows how to fight and female lead that is pretty and also knows how to fight is match made in heaven, no?
Anyway, as I thought, a 6th guy pops up and tries to attack Jing xing from the back, but before the guy was able to attack the female lead, a cup suddenly flew towards that guy's way and hit the hand that was holding the sword. This made the female lead realize that she was about to get sneaked up on, and she quickly kick the guy and knock him out.
It was obvious to me that the cup came from the male lead, since he was drinking from it originally. However, female doesn't know, so when she knew someone helped her, she quickly tried to find who it was, but all she saw was the back of a guy dressed in all black, walk out of the restaurant. And behind him is another guy that dressed in a similar fashion as the female lead right now, but in dark blue. I believe his name is Wu Yan, he is the right hand man of Si Yue, in another word, he is one of the supporting characters of this world.
But either way, this is this first scene between the female lead and the male lead. I guess I came right at the time where their love line just started. Nisu!
As Jing Xing kept staring at Si Yue's back thinking if he was the one that helped her, a young girls voice called out "young miss, there you are, I've been trying to find you!"
Me and Jing Xing both turned around at the same time, and the young girl that looks a whole head shorter than the female lead and a half head shorter than me, ran up to Jing Xing. Her appearance is quite cute, with her big round eye and chubby cheeks, she must be Jing Xing's personal maid and also a supporting lead, YiYi.
When she ran up to Jing Xing she already looks out of breath but she pulled the female lead's hand and said in a hurry "We should go back home before madam punish us!"
The "madam" that YiYi is talking about must be the classic evil stepmother of the female lead. Oh well, a cliché romance novel can never miss out on a evil stepmother, which was the reason why I wrote the stepmom as part of the plot.
The female lead looked at YiYi and nodded her head "Okay" and they walked away. People also finished what they wanted to see and walked away also, leaving the fat man and his pals laying on the floor, looking half dead.
As for me, I'm the same. I finished what I wantedd to see and know, so I also walked away like the rest of the others. I was about to take a bite on the tanghulu that I had in my hand but I bite into air instead. Looking down onto my hand, all I see is the wooden stick that is left behind after finishing the tanghulu itself.
All have to say is that VIP seat is truly amazing.
Seeing the empty stick, my stomach grumble and thinking that all I ate was a sweet snack, I suddenly start to crave for a meal. So I walked around a bit more to find a restaurant to sit at and eat. I went into a restaurant that looks the busiest and sat at the window seat that is near the corner.
I'm not sure if it was because I'm hungry or if it's because I something more amazing than I thought it would be today, all the food that I ate tasted especially good today. As I slowly sip on my tea and eat the food while looking at the orange reddish sunset that is falling upon the sky.
Not long after, the sky turned completely dark. The sky is covered with gray clouds, blocking the light from the moon and stars.
"I guess it time for me to go back" I said to myself. The I start to walk back the same path that I came from.
As I walk back I heard the conversation between two men who are dressed in a wuxia clothing with a sword in their hands.
"Did you find him?" One of the guys whispered to the other one.
"Still have not" the other guy replied back quietly.
"Damn it! Where did he go! Let just continue to find him since he hurt, he couldn't have gone far." the other guy said. The his ally nod his head then both of them went their separate ways.
"Is there going to be another show tonight?" I thought to myself.
There shouldn't be though, at least I don't remember any of the leads being in this scenario early on in the plot. But in the end I did not give much thought into it and continue to walk.
After I took few more steps, I heard a sound from a dark alleyway.
Me being curious as always, I step in a little closer to the dark alleyway to see what it was, and I saw a guy laying down holding his abdomen that looks like a stab.
So it's him that they're trying to find. Although I can not see his face, I can tell that he is in pain. Afterall, he is making really painful sounds but because he doesn't want people to find out that he is hiding here, he tries to hold onto his voice as much as possible. I don't know why I was able to hear it but I just did and I didn't do anything about it.
After a few seconds, I turned my body away and went back to the direction where my house is at. Whatever happen in this world in is none of business, since I'm just a bystander. And didn't Si Ming said that I should not meddle with the story's plot, or else I'll be punished. I don't want to be in an annoying situation because of my naïve and stupid actions.
I saw the two guys again. One of the guy shook his head, which I believe that he meant that he still haven't found that guy that is hiding in the alley. His pal starts to get annoy and said "After you found him, just kill him off so he doesn't have the chance to run off. A dead body being presented to Master is better than going back empty handed" The other guy nodded his head in agreement, then both of them went their own way once again.
Kill....that fast? I start to feel a little bit guilty, but then I shook my head to remind myself that it is just a beginning of the story, no one should've been dead yet, and most importantly, if someone is going to die, it's definitely not one of the leads, especially the mains. After all, that guy in the alley is definitely not the female lead, since his body is much more muscular and taller, but also not the male lead, since the male lead is much more muscular than that person.
The more I think, the guiltier I am for not helping that guy.
Then I stop walking. I mean... I'm not exactly meddling with the storyline, since this scene did not happen at all in the beginning of the plot, at least I don't remember it happening at all. At most, it must be the side storyline where it is not part of the plot at all, since we are in reality right not, people still have their own lives to live and not just the plot itself...right?
After a few more seconds of hesitation, I went back to that alley.