Chapter 1: The Useless Young Lady

“Young Miss, the Master has sent someone to ask when you will be returning to Lushan Academy?” A respectful female voice sounded by her ear. The young girl lazily rolled over, her wide sleeves sliding down to her elbows, revealing skin as fair and crystalline as jade, gilded with a faint halo by the sunlight.

She unhurriedly picked up her teacup and took a sip before asking slowly, “What is it? Could it be that Lushan Academy has gone to my grandfather?”

“The Master says that Lushan Academy’s requirements are extremely strict. If a student does not attend classes for a month, they fear you will be expelled.”

“Expelled, then let them expel me! What do I have to fear? Do they expect me to continue facing those so-called ‘talents’? Just thinking about it makes me feel sick!”

The young girl let out a cold snort, her eyes flashing with a hint of sharpness. Unlike her previous laziness, there was now a touch of restrained authority.

Talents? Bullshit! Are those who possess aptitude but lack character also called talents? It’s enough to make her laugh her teeth off!

No one would be in a good mood if they woke up to find they had moved to a new nest, especially in a strange place.

That was exactly her situation. She had been sleeping soundly in the valleys of Mount Shu, yet she didn’t know when she had arrived here, becoming an unknown young girl.

She recalled the information she had coaxed out of the maidservant by her side during this time, and combined with her own deductions, it wasn’t difficult to piece together the cause and effect of the situation.

The world today is divided into four: Southern Tang, Northern Qin, Western Liang, and Eastern Yan. This era is vastly different from her own. After the Qin Dynasty unified the world, it did not fall after the second generation; instead, Fusu succeeded to the throne after the First Emperor, and the Qin Dynasty lasted for a full two hundred years.

It was only when the last emperor became incompetent that various factions rose up, vying for the world, eventually leading to the four-way split. The Qin Dynasty was relegated to a corner, becoming Northern Qin, while the three victorious factions became the founding emperors of the other three kingdoms.

She had possessed this young girl’s body. Coincidentally, they shared the same name: Xiao Qinyin. She lived with her maternal grandfather. Because her mother had passed away early, her grandfather had spoiled and indulged her excessively, raising her to be unlearned, violent in temperament, and notoriously incompetent. Others, hindered by her volatile moods, dared not mock her to her face, but behind her back, they all called her the “Good-for-Nothing Miss.”

This body’s grandfather was none other than the Marquis of Dingguo of Western Liang. His ancestors had fought for the world alongside the founding emperor, and the title had been passed down through generations. He also held thirty thousand troops in his hands, a force not to be underestimated.

The Marquis of Dingguo had only one daughter, who had married the young master of the Xiao family, one of the four great noble clans. Xiao Qinyin was their child, but the young master of the Xiao family had favored his concubine over his wife, causing Xiao Qinyin’s mother to live in sorrow and eventually die of depression.