(3906) A Wish for Your Happiness in This Life
Chaos, endless chaos.
Lin Daiyu had no idea how long she had been drifting through this empty Sea of Consciousness.
Time had lost all meaning. It felt as though only an instant had passed, yet also as if she had lived through countless cycles of reincarnation.
But the soul-rending pain rose and fell like an endless tide, reminding her again and again that she still existed—and that the crisis of complete annihilation was bearing down on her.
She was Lin Daiyu, but not entirely.
For within this tender, ten-year-old body, two souls of the same origin were now entangled, each having lived a very different life.
One was the young lady of an official's family in this immortal cultivation version of the world of Dream of the Red Chamber, still innocent and untouched by life's hardships. The other was her: a lonely soul from another, more ordinary Dream of the Red Chamber world, who had painstakingly cultivated for hundreds, even thousands of years, only to choose to shatter her immortal body and ascend—and end up in this state.
Her thoughts drifted, of their own accord, through the agonized Sea of Consciousness on the verge of collapse, back to those long years that had long since grown hazy.
Her earliest memory was of traveling north by boat with her cousin, Second Brother Jia Lian, to her maternal grandmother's home outside the Divine Capital.
"Miss, look!"
"Like a little snowball! Isn't it precious?"
"Second Master Jia Lian says it's a fox!"
While resting at some unknown ferry crossing, she had found something by the grass. It was filthy, yet seemed somehow extraordinary: a white bear, larger than her palm, with snow-white fur all over.
The bear was adorably clumsy, its bright eyes