Chapter 1: Transmigrating Even While Sleeping

"Sister Zi, I beg you, please be kind and don't take all these things away, okay? The Eldest Miss is sick now and the Prime Minister is not in the manor. I need these to invite a physician to come and treat the Young Miss."

Hearing the unfamiliar pleas, Mu Xiaoxue tried hard to shake her head. It was so noisy! She opened her eyes to find an unfamiliar environment: a pink mosquito net, a high-quality rosewood bed, silk bedding, and an exquisite red wood table and chairs, all in a vintage style.

Wait, that's not right! Didn't I stay up for several days to finish a big order, and I just got home to catch up on sleep after finishing the work? Then... where is this? Mu Xiaoxue tried hard to move her body, but her entire body felt as if it had been crushed by a vehicle, aching everywhere.

"Don't let go of your hands yet, or see how the Second Miss deals with you." An arrogant threat rang out from outside the door. Mu Xiaoxue couldn't help but furrow her beautiful willow-leaf eyebrows. Enduring the pain, she sat up with difficulty and saw a maid in a yellow skirt and a maid in a purple skirt standing at the door. It looked like an argument had broken out...

Though confused, she did not interrupt their conversation. Instead, she listened carefully to the content of their words and observed the two of them.

"Sister Zi, please, don't take these things away." The maid in yellow held onto the maid in purple, refusing to let go, pleading incessantly with a choked voice, tears flowing like broken beads.

The maid in purple, holding the stolen items in both hands, snorted coldly: "The Eldest Miss's? Who knows if she'll even make it through tonight? Haven't you seen her? She's like a dead person right now, her face is so pale it's terrifying, and she hasn't even made a sound. Even if you invite a physician, so what? She won't wake up."

"Huan'er, since you called me 'Sister,' I'll kindly remind you, you silly girl—hurry up and take some things while no one is here to check on her, then get out of here. Besides, in the past, the Eldest Miss relied on her betrothal to the Crown Prince to look down on everyone in the manor. She was nothing but a useless waste who knew how to do nothing except lash out and scold the servants whenever she was angry. It's her own fault she's like this now."

"Fine, she's already in this state and I've completed my task. When I go back, the Second Miss might even give me more responsibilities. When that time comes, I can speak up for you in front of the Second Miss, and maybe she'll take you in."

"No... that won't happen. The Eldest Miss will definitely wake up. The Eldest Miss has a destiny upon her; she won't just die like this. You're lying." The maid called Huan'er looked terrified. Her words seemed directed at the maid in purple, but they were also meant to comfort herself.

"Sister Zi, don't say that. No matter how the Young Miss treated us normally, the Prime Minister has always been very good to us! Besides, if it wasn't for you, how could the Young Miss have fallen down the stairs?"

Hearing Huan'er's words, a flash of panic crossed the eyes of the maid in purple, but she quickly regained her composure.

"I can't be blamed for this. Perhaps the person who read her destiny made a mistake!" Huan'er stared at Zi and slowly released her grip on the maid in purple.

"I think the Second Miss is much better than that useless Eldest Miss. Playing the zither, chess, calligraphy, painting, singing, poetry, needlework—isn't she much stronger than that waste? Perhaps the Second Miss is the one with the destiny of 'he who possesses this woman shall possess the world.' I'm going to the Second Miss's place. As for you, if you don't go, then just wait to go down and accompany that waste! I still want to live a good life."

Mu Xiaoxue finally understood. Although it felt unbelievable, she had to admit she had truly transmigrated. To think such a thing could happen just from taking a nap. However, now didn't seem like the time to think about that.

She carefully observed the room. Judging by the decorations and furnishings, it seemed to be a decent household. She had also just heard those two maids mention the Prime Minister and the Eldest Miss; it seemed this was the manor of a Prime Minister from some dynasty!

Then I must be the Eldest Miss they are talking about! They also mentioned the destiny of possessing this woman to gain the world, the betrothal to the Crown Prince, the Second Miss, and falling down the stairs... it seemed her future days wouldn't be too boring. Since I am replacing you now, I will help you live well. Having made up her mind, Mu Xiaoxue feigned a cough to interrupt the two maids' conversation.

Hearing the sound, Huan'er made a silencing gesture toward the still-chattering maid in purple. Huan'er looked around for the source of the sound but couldn't find it. Then, looking toward the room, she ran inside in pleasant surprise.

"Eldest Miss, you're awake! You're finally awake! I knew the Eldest Miss would be fine. Eldest Miss, I'll pour you some water, just wait!" After drinking the water the maid poured, Mu Xiaoxue handed the cup back to her while simultaneously observing her. She was a loyal girl. She then looked up and saw the other maid who was about to leave.

"Xiao Zi, why aren't you coming over? Am I not waking up to your joy?" Xiao Zi stopped her footsteps. In her heart, she thought: *Of course I'm not happy! If you wake up, won't I be dead?*

But she didn't dare say such things to her face; she knew Mu Xiaoxue's temper. But what kind of person was Mu Xiaoxue? She came from the 21st century. Having navigated the workplace for so many years, she had enough perceptiveness to see through Xiao Zi's reluctance at a glance. Xiao Zi was still holding a vase she had just taken from the room and placed it on the table, looking somewhat impatient.

"I don't know what the Eldest Miss wants to call this servant for. This servant was just about to go invite a physician to check the Eldest Miss's pulse. Of course I'm happy that the Eldest Miss has woken up!"

Mu Xiaoxue slowly moved her feet to the edge of the bed to put on her shoes. Raising her beautiful willow-leaf eyebrows slightly, she said softly, "Can I not call you if there is nothing to say?"

Although Mu Xiaoxue's voice was very soft, to the two maids, this was the strangest thing of all. Was this still the Eldest Miss who used to call for beatings and death over the smallest matters? Though thinking this, she feigned fear on the surface and said, "You can, of course you can. It's just that I thought since the Eldest Miss has woken up, I should go invite a physician to see if the Eldest Miss is truly out of danger."

Mu Xiaoxue gave a mocking smile. "Oh... I thought you were going to move everything out of my room because I wouldn't wake up. It seems I misunderstood you. But I wonder, why are you still holding that vase while you're supposedly going to invite a physician? Could it be that this vase has something to do with inviting a physician?"

Xiao Zi was not as arrogant as she had been when speaking to Huan'er. She knew this Eldest Miss was not a kind person in the manor. She immediately knelt on the ground and said, "Replying to the Eldest Miss, this servant saw that the vase was dirty and wanted to take it out to wash it. That way, when the Eldest Miss wakes up and sees it, she will be happy, right?"

The corners of Mu Xiaoxue's mouth curled up slightly as she looked at Xiao Zi with a half-smile. "Inviting a physician is to see if I am truly out of danger. So, does that mean if I hadn't woken up, you wouldn't have intended to invite a physician at all?"

Having just heard them say that this Eldest Miss used to scold and beat servants whenever she was angry, in order to temporarily prevent people from realizing she wasn't the old Eldest Miss, Mu Xiaoxue called out to the outside: "Someone, come and drag this lowly maid out and give her fifty strokes of the cane!"

Upon hearing this, Xiao Zi realized that while it wasn't a death sentence like before, fifty strokes would still take half her life! If that happened, the Second Miss wouldn't want her anymore. Xiao Zi turned to look at Huan'er beside her and cried, "Huan'er, please help me beg the Young Miss! Tell her we really were going to invite a physician just now. Please, help me speak well of us to the Eldest Miss, okay?" Seeing that Huan'er did not move, Xiao Zi turned back to beg Mu Xiaoxue.

"Eldest Miss, I beg you to spare this servant! This servant really didn't do it on purpose! I have parents above me and younger siblings below me. If I die, how will they live! I beg you, Eldest Miss!"