Qidian was running an event where readers with a full subscription could read a bonus side story or something. My editor told me about it last week, so I wrote two side stories. One, set in another timeline, went into the event. VIP readers with a full subscription could read it at no extra charge.
This other one was the prequel side story I mentioned before, and I was putting it out as a bonus too. Since it was an extra, I took the opportunity to try writing in first person.
Today's regular update wouldn't be any shorter, either.
The story starts below.
My... name was Wang Mian, and I was a transmigrator.
In an age when practically everyone transmigrated, even the methods were getting creative. Mine, though, was utterly unremarkable. Or perhaps... a return to the classics?
I transmigrated after getting hit by a car... It felt embarrassing even to admit it.
I couldn't remember the exact process. All I knew was that after the car hit me and I regained consciousness, I had become a tiny baby, abandoned in front of a large iron gate. If I wasn't mistaken, it was the entrance to an orphanage.
Yep, the standard orphan start. Nothing wrong with that.
What happened afterward proved me right. This was an orphanage, and its facilities were surprisingly decent-much better than the cheap rental room I'd lived in before transmigrating.
The only slight problem was that the director was actually a foreigner...
Because my language system only supported Chinese and a little Japanese. English wasn't in my language database.
In other words... I'd fucking transmigrated overseas!
Luckily, I'd arrived as a baby, so I could learn the language slowly. If I'd transmigrated overseas as an adult, I really would've been screwed.
But transmigrating without a