Good news: no need to reload a save.
Bad news: she had no idea which timeline she had landed in.
Shen Tang had thought a fish bone had sent her back to the very beginning. But after killing all the constables, she realized the season was wrong, the place was wrong, and the people were wrong! Aside from the woman who had tried to ambush her, Shen Tang had little impression of the Shen Clan members who had been exiled back then, and no impression of the constables she had killed, either. So how had she figured out she hadn't gone back to the past?
Heh heh heh. Naturally, it was because the face reflected in the stream wasn't the peerless beauty she couldn't help admiring and getting lost in every morning! The moment she leaned over to look, the stream reflected the face of a scrawny, sallow child with dry, sparse hair. Her cheeks weren't just lacking baby fat; they were sunken.
Shen Tang stroked her face. "This face is..."
She weighed her words. If she couldn't travel back, she'd be stuck with this face, so being too harsh would be unfair to both its previous owner and herself. "...a little plain."
Shen Tang deflated like a punctured ball.
She crouched helplessly by the stream, pondering what to do next.
No matter what it took, she had to get back to Kang Country.
A fish bone had ruined more than a decade of hard work and effort. Did Heaven really expect her to believe this wasn't a joke? The more Shen Tang thought about it, the angrier she became. She thrust her middle finger skyward and let loose a steady stream of curses.
Profanity really was a miraculous stress reliever.
Only by letting it out could the soul be