Chapter 1 - Reborn (2/2)

Xue Dongting mumbled, “I’ve come back? I’ve… I’ve been reborn?”

Tears dripped down her face. She clenched her fists and thought, “Is this an opportunity from Heaven, another chance at life? In this life, I won’t lead a dangerous life and submit to being pushed around. In this life, I won’t get caught up in that prophecy from the Bureau of Astronomy. I’m not the Dongting girl from the eastern sea, I’m Xue Dongting!”

A cold breeze whistled past, rippling over the frigid water. That icy feeling told her this was not a dream. She stood up trembling, took up the raft oar, and with a series of grunts and exclamations rowed to the shore. She took one look at the slender-waisted but dignified looking beautiful woman before her and Xue Dongting came up and hugged her, held her tightly.

Mama Qiao staggered, baffled. “Girl, what’s gotten into you?”

Xue Dongting was crying. “Mama Qiao, now I know, you’re the only person in my whole life who will treat me well.” In her previous life at the third prince’s estate she had encountered too many malicious hypocrites.

Mama Qiao scratched her head helplessly. “Alright, stop acting, I won’t scold you, okay? What’s a girl of sixteen talking about her ‘whole life’ for?”

Xue Dongting zoned out for a second, then looked up at Mama Qiao. “I’m now… sixteen?”

Mama Qiao frowned. “Can you not even remember how old you are?”

Xue Dongting nodded and forced a smile. “I remember, I just wanted to make sure.”

In the autumn of her seventeenth year, the third prince would arrive.