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Capítulo 1

Chapter One: Coma

In the classroom of Class 7, Grade 1 at Huakai Academy, this moment is a joyous time for all the students. Winter vacation has arrived, and they can finally sleep in as much as they want without worrying about getting up early.

Lin Yue, who had served as a substitute homeroom teacher for five months, was now at the perfect moment for relief. Looking at the students who both angered and delighted her, a helpless smile appeared on her face. She believed that there was no teacher in the world more tormented than her.

Winter break, winter break is finally here!

“Dear teacher, even during this long winter when we are separated, I will build a warm castle for you in the deepest part of my heart. If you miss me during our time apart, remember to contact me anytime; my phone is always open for you.” Mao Chong stood on a stool and loudly poured out his heart to his acting homeroom teacher, Lin Yue. After hearing his words, although Lin Yue had goosebumps, she still forced a smile and said, “Mao Chong, thank you for thinking of your teacher so much. Have a good holiday too. See you in the new semester!”

As she watched the last student, Mao Chong, rush out of the classroom, Lin Yue's smile vanished. Gritting her teeth, she cursed inwardly: "You brat!"

After looking around, Lin Yue found the classroom empty. She began a final check of the classroom. If there were no problems, she could lock the classroom door, make a phone call to the principal to report, and then begin her relaxing vacation.

She exhaled a long breath, feeling much more relaxed, when a schoolbag caught her eye.

That was Zhong Xuan's seat.

Zhong Xuan... Zhong Xuan!

Class monitor Zhong Xuan was still in the office helping me record my final exam scores. How could I have forgotten about her? Thinking of this, Lin Yue picked up her schoolbag, left the classroom, locked the door, and ran towards the office. Reaching the office door, she pushed it open and saw Zhong Xuan asleep on the desk. Lin Yue couldn't help but smile, walked over to the desk, gently patted Zhong Xuan's shoulder, and called out, "Xiao Xuan, Xiao Xuan."

"Teacher!" Xiaoxuan groggily opened her eyes and replied.

"I'm so sorry to have made you so tired. Go home now. Winter break has already started. Have a good holiday." Lin Yue said apologetically to Zhong Xuan, who was severely sleep-deprived due to preparing for final exams.

"Okay." Taking the schoolbag from Lin Yue, Xiao Xuan stood up and said, "Teacher, bye, see you when school starts."

"Okay, see you when school starts."

After saying goodbye to Lin Yue, Xiao Xuan walked out of the office and headed out of the teaching building.

A loud "Boom!" was heard. Lin Yue looked out the window and saw that thunder was rumbling outside.

Still half asleep, Xiao Xuan stepped out of the teaching building and glanced at the gloomy sky, thinking to herself, "Are you kidding me? I just came out!" Suddenly, the sky turned pitch black, as if terrible weather was about to strike. Looking at the low-hanging clouds, Xiao Xuan muttered to herself, "Hail? Sleet? Blizzard?"

Two cars were parked outside the school gate, each with a boy inside, all waiting for Xiaoxuan to walk out of the school.

A bolt of lightning peeked out from the dark clouds, its graceful form appearing as if searching for a target, occasionally peeking out from the clouds.

Xiao Xuan slowly walked towards the school gate. At the same time, Tian Ye and Kang Xuan, Xiao Xuan's classmates who were sitting in the car, got out of the car, looked at each other, and looked at Xiao Xuan who was slowly walking towards the school gate.

A blinding flash of lightning pierced the clouds above Xiaoxuan's head. Tianye and Kangxuan both closed their eyes briefly at the blinding light. When they opened their eyes again, Xiaoxuan was lying on the school grounds.

"Xiao Xuan!" "Xiao Xuan!" the two exclaimed simultaneously.

They sprinted back to the campus, and the two of them ran to Xiaoxuan's side at the same time, squatted down at the same time, and pulled on Xiaoxuan's body at the same time.

"Let go of me! Xiaoxuan is mine! I'm taking her to the hospital!" Tianye shouted.

"Let go of her! She's the one I've chosen! I'm taking her to the hospital!" Kang Xuan shouted.

My head hurts, my head really hurts. Who's been yelling in my ear? I can tell from their voices it's those two again. With a sigh, Xiaoxuan opened her eyes and was startled.

Where am I? Ugh, why am I floating in mid-air? What's going on? Where's my body? Why can't I see my own body? My body... my body, in the hands of those two idiots! Floating in mid-air, Xiao Xuan looked down at the noisy Tian Ye and Kang Xuan on the ground, speechless. What's wrong with me? Is my soul leaving my body? My soul leaving my body...

Me? Dead? Impossible! This is impossible! As she was filled with astonishment, a powerful force appeared behind her. Her ethereal soul, as if grasped by an invisible hand, was powerless to resist, manipulated at its mercy, and then cast aside into darkness...

"What are you two doing? What happened to Zhong Xuan?" Lin Yue, who ran out of the teaching building, shouted in a panic when she saw the scene in front of her.

"There was a flash of lightning just now, and it was too close to her. I guess she was so frightened that she fainted," Tianye explained.

"Then hurry up and take her to the hospital! Is this the time for you to argue?" Lin Yue said angrily. So, under Lin Yue's arrangement, Xiao Ye picked up Xiao Xuan and ran quickly to the car waiting at the school gate. Together with Kang Xuan and Lin Yue, they took Xiao Xuan to Ren'ai Hospital, the closest hospital to Huakai Academy where her mother worked.

Upon receiving the news, Xuan's mother, Liu Lu, was panicked and at a loss. What on earth had happened? Her child was on holiday, but instead, she had been frightened unconscious by lightning at school. Watching Xiao Xuan being wheeled into the emergency room, Liu Lu was so anxious that tears streamed down her face.

After more than half an hour of emergency treatment, Xiaoxuan was wheeled out of the emergency room.

Liu Lu, Xuan's mother, who had been waiting outside the door, hurriedly wiped away her tears and asked the doctor who was treating her, "How is Xuanxuan?"

“Dr. Liu,” the doctor said gravely, “just like last time, she is in a coma. Her nervous system is unresponsive. Xuanxuan’s current condition is like that of a vegetable.”

"What? What does this mean?" Liu Lu burst into tears. "Wasn't she supposed to have fainted from being frightened by lightning? How could this happen?"

“Dr. Liu, don’t worry. Do you remember when Xuanxuan was hospitalized last time? I was thinking that after being frightened, she might experience a temporary state similar to animal hibernation. Once the hibernation period is over, she will wake up on her own. Judging from her appearance, everything is normal, and her brain nerves are very active, but she just won’t wake up. This reminds me of a term that would never appear in the medical field: sealing. Her condition seems to be like that.”

After hearing what the emergency doctor said, Liu Lu had an incredulous expression on her face. She stared blankly as Xiao Xuan was pushed into the ward by the nurse. She nodded hurriedly to the doctor in the emergency room and walked heavily toward Xiao Xuan's ward.

"Auntie! That doctor said Xuanxuan was hospitalized last time? What does that mean?" Tianye asked anxiously as Liu Lu entered the ward.

“Last time, an older woman brought her to the hospital, saying she had been struck by lightning,” Liu Lu said, sitting by her daughter’s bedside, looking at her daughter who looked like she was fast asleep. “At the time, the doctors at the hospital all thought that the older woman was just old and seeing things, which is why she said that. Back then, Xuanxuan’s reactions were just like they are now, very normal. There was no sign of her being struck by lightning at all.”

"Auntie," Kang Xuan asked, looking at Xiao Xuan on the hospital bed, "when did she get better? How did she recover?"

As Liu Lu recalled the events, tears streamed down her face. "Just like this time, she was like a vegetable, sleeping soundly. There were no signs of anything. Just when her father and I were heartbroken, she woke up as if nothing had happened and was found on the rooftop terrace of the hospital."

"Auntie, how long was she unconscious last time?" Tianye asked, frowning.

“For 10 days, her father and I counted down the days. She woke up on the 10th day.” After saying this, Liu Lu covered her face with her hands and cried bitterly.

Lin Yue quickly stepped forward to comfort her, "Dr. Liu, don't worry, Xiao Xuan will be alright. Didn't that doctor just say the same thing? She'll definitely wake up; her classmates are waiting for her to go back to school together."

While trying to persuade Liu Lu, Lin Yue, who was also looking at Tian Ye and Kang Xuan, who both liked Zhong Xuan, quietly swallowed back her words about not allowing high school students to date. Now was not the time to say such things.

Xiaoxuan, wake up quickly. Don't leave the people who love you here all alone.

Xiaoxuan is so sad, she feels so sad that she wants to cry.

What happened? Why am I so sad? Where am I? Is this a black hole...? What is this pitch-black place? Where am I? I want to go home. I need to practice my song. I need to rehearse with everyone...

In the pitch-black space, Xiaoxuan kept shouting, when she heard someone call out in her ear, "Miss, wake up! Miss, you're having another nightmare!"

A shout came from her ear, and Xiaoxuan was being pulled and yanked, her body feeling as if it were being torn apart. She struggled to open her eyes and found herself lying in bed, alive and well.

Thank God, thank Mom, thank Dad, thank the teachers and classmates of Class 7, Grade 11, I'm still alive. Xiao Xuan felt a surge of relief. It was just a dream, sigh! Dreaming of being struck by lightning, what a nightmare!

Empress of Khitan - Chapter Two: Astonishment

Updated: 2008-09-20 16:53:53 Word Count: 3971

Xiaoxuan sat up, clenched her fists, and was about to stretch when she noticed a black mole on the back of her thumb.

How could there be a mole on my hand? Impossible! Xiaoxuan immediately dilated her pupils several times over, carefully examining the back of her hand. After confirming with certainty that a large black mole had suddenly appeared on her hand, she glanced around dejectedly. What she saw next startled her.

Two young girls dressed in ethnic minority clothing stood before his bed, staring intently at him. A tiger skin lay on the floor—it appeared to be a genuine tiger skin! Looking further, the walls were adorned with various exquisitely carved handicrafts. Even the bed he was sitting on was covered with a tiger skin!

Where am I? How did I get here? And who are these two girls? When did this mole on my hand appear?

Xiao Xuan looked down at the clothes she was wearing. These were definitely not Han Chinese clothes; they must be underwear from a minority group!

Wait! This body is mine? Looking down at her well-developed breasts, Xiao Xuan was bewildered. This... I've developed way too fast! Looking at the mole on the back of her fingers, then at her full breasts, Xiao Xuan was certain this body wasn't hers. What was going on?

"Miss, are you hungry? Would you like me to get you something to eat?"

Nodding blankly, Xiaoxuan smiled and said, "You two go and get me something to eat."

Seeing the two maids exchange surprised glances before leaving the room one after the other and closing the door behind them, Xiao Xuan quickly got out of bed, ran to the table with the bronze mirror, and began to examine it carefully.

Yes, this face is mine. No! This face isn't mine either! But it looks so much like me! My goodness, even twins wouldn't look this alike! This face is a bit chubby, round and plump, what's commonly called baby fat! Look at those eyes, eyebrows, and nose—it's a spitting image of myself! I bet even my mom wouldn't recognize this woman or me, or who her real daughter is! Wait, what's going on? I haven't figured this out yet!

There's an idea! There's a way to figure out what's going on. Xiaoxuan picked up the hairpin from the table and plunged it into her arm.

"Oh my god! It hurts so much!" Blood gushed from the small hole in her skin, and the slight pain made her grimace, regretting her rash actions. Ouch! It hurts so much! She rubbed her eyes, looked around the room again, and, still unwilling to give up, walked to the walls and touched the decorations. Yes, it was real, this wasn't a dream! She was indeed in this unfamiliar room. Where was she? What was going on?

Looking back... looking back... I remember walking out of the teaching building, and then the weather changed. There was lightning and thunder. I was about to go home when I suddenly fainted for no reason.

The image of myself floating in mid-air, watching Kang Hyun and Tian Ye bickering flashed through my mind.

Back then, I was floating in mid-air, but now I find myself in this strange place, and this body isn't even mine. Could it be that I'm finished? Not only am I finished, but I also missed Meng Po's holiday and didn't drink the Meng Po soup, arriving in this world with the fragments of memories remaining in my mind? No, it can't be like that. If that were the case, I should still be a baby, how did I suddenly grow so big?

I have my own thoughts, yet I'm using someone else's body. How is this possible? She pounded her head hard with both hands for a long time, until her head ached, but she still couldn't figure it out.

Namo Amitabha Buddha! Can anyone tell me what's going on here?

Listlessly walking back to her bed, Xiao Xuan pondered that the most important thing now was to figure out who the real owner of this body was and where she was. Just then, the door opened, and two maids pushed it open and brought in the food they were carrying, placing it on the table.

"Miss, dinner is ready," the maid called out with a smile.

Alright! I am, after all, the "Miss" you're talking about. It seems the owner of this body was quite someone important. Fine! I'll borrow it for now and get a feel for the market.

"You two come here first, I have something to ask you," Xiaoxuan said.

As the two maids approached her, Xiaoxuan said, "Didn't I just have a nightmare? I dreamt that you treated me badly, that you were so heartless." As she spoke, Xiaoxuan's expression changed, her face turning so sour that she was almost about to shed a few more tears to prove the injustice she suffered in her dream.

Upon hearing this, the two maids hurriedly knelt down and replied, "How could that be? What are you saying, Third Miss? How could we dare to be heartless and ungrateful to you?"

Third Miss? So I have two masters above me!

“Oh! Really? Sigh, I still don’t believe it! In my dream, you all had long faces and asked me: Where did you come from, little girl? Where do you live? Who are your family members?” Xiaoxuan pretended to be trembling and continued, “They acted as if they had never seen me before, didn’t know me, and didn’t even know anything about my family. They made me explain in detail. It was as if I had never existed in this world.”

“I told you that Miss San shouldn’t have come to Nanjing this time, but you insisted on coming! Look at you, you haven’t even seen Han Derang yet, and you’re already having nightmares.”

Nanjing! Nanjing! She was talking about Nanjing... Why did I come all the way to Nanjing, so far away? When will I be able to go back to Beijing! Xiao Xuan's face immediately fell. Han Derang! Who is he? Why is the owner of this body looking for Han Derang?

Seeing Xiaoxuan's long face, the two maids kneeling before the bed were secretly alarmed. It was all their fault for being so talkative and saying the wrong thing, thus angering the Third Miss.

"Third Miss, please don't be angry. It's just a dream. You must have been traveling a long way these past few days and have been worrying too much, which is why you had this nightmare. How could we not know about our own family affairs? Our master's name is Xiao Siwen, the son-in-law of Emperor Taizong, and he is currently serving as an official in the court. His wife is Princess Yan, named Yelü Lübugu. Our Xiao family is a prestigious and influential family in the Liao Dynasty. Miss has two older sisters, the eldest being Xiao Hulian. Our master is close to Prince Yelü Xian and intends to..." "The young lady is betrothed to a prince, and preparations are underway for her marriage. The second sister, Xiao Yangan, is betrothed to Prince Zhao, Xiyin. The second son-in-law is imprisoned for treason, and the second young lady is also under house arrest, forbidden from leaving the mansion. Therefore, our master is always worried. The third young lady, your given name is Xiao Chuo, and your childhood name is Yan Yan, taken from our lady's title, the 'Yan' of Princess Yan. This shows how much our master and lady love you. Otherwise, our master wouldn't have allowed you to come to Nanjing this time."

Hearing the maid's words, Xiao Xuan felt her mind go blank, her vision went black, and she almost fell off the bed. The two maids hurriedly came over and said, "Miss, look, you're exhausted. Last night you were breathing rapidly, and when I tried to find a doctor, you wouldn't let me. Now you look terrible, you must have a doctor come and take a look."

"No need!" Xiaoxuan took a deep breath and sorted out her thoughts again.

She couldn't help but believe what the maid said. If it weren't for the fact that this body wasn't her own, she would never have believed the maid's words. But she knew perfectly well that this body wasn't her own! Her soul and thoughts were currently in a body that didn't belong to her. This alone was enough to force her to believe the maid's words.

This girl said that last night, the third young lady was breathing rapidly... Could she have died? And I, unlucky and inexplicably, was dragged into her body? Who has such power? Who is so capable? To be able to move souls around like that! Right, whoever it is, they should keep their eyes open. She, from Nanjing, died, and they grabbed me, from Beijing, to fill the gap. What's the point of coming all this way?! Xiao Xuan's mind began to wander, contemplating all the possible scenarios. Wait, she seemed to remember something! To cram for the history exam, I memorized some information about the Liao Dynasty. Nanjing in the Liao Dynasty is modern-day Beijing! Beijing! I'm still in Beijing! Good heavens... I said, why did this Xiao Chuo have to come to me of all people to replace you! Do you know how much potential you've ruined?! Sigh!

This is the Liao Dynasty! Xiao Chuo's father is a high-ranking official of the Liao Dynasty, a prince consort, and her mother is a princess. It seems this family is full of officials and nobles. As the saying goes, since we're here, let's make the best of it and take it one step at a time.

"Who is Han Derang?" Xiao Xuan suddenly asked.

The two maids exchanged a glance and then said, "Miss, you still don't trust us. Isn't Han Derang your fiancé? You came all the way from the capital to Nanjing just to see him."