That familiar feeling returned.
This time, it happened in the middle of the night.
Zhao Shuning had been sleeping restlessly, with fine beads of sweat on her forehead.
Suddenly, her body jerked violently, and a searing pain in her chest assailed her once again.
The sudden suffocation made her body go rigid.
When she finally caught her breath, she sat up immediately. Her whole body was drenched in sweat.
She casually wiped the sweat from her forehead. Her heart was pounding wildly in her chest.
As an alchemist, she could use her spiritual power to examine her body.
Zhao Shuning had tried many times before but found nothing.
On several occasions, she thought it might be due to over - exhaustion. But as the incidents piled up, she had to take it seriously.
However, she couldn't find the cause.
Even if she sought help from more advanced alchemists, they probably wouldn't be able to diagnose the problem.
As the pain subsided, Zhao Shuning couldn't fall back asleep.
She got dressed, then stood by the window of the high - rise building in Qianji Kill.
She wrapped her clothes tightly around her and gently pushed open the window.
It was the middle of the night. The bright moon hung high in the sky, and everything was deathly silent. There wasn't a single sound.
It was cold and lonely.
Zhao Shuning stared at the moon absent - mindedly, lost in a flood of memories.
When she was young, she used to run under the moonlight. Her brother would hold her hand. When she got tired, he would carry her in his arms.
As she grew older, her brother was no longer by her side. Whenever she encountered difficulties, her master would come to her rescue, which was why she had been able to grow to her current state.
There was a chaise longue by the window.
Zhao Shuning sat on it and leaned against the window.
Every single thing that had happened since she came here was deeply engraved in her heart.
Many times, Zhao Shuning couldn't help but wonder if she really belonged here.
But countless emerging thoughts would disrupt her musings.
If she were from this world, how could she have memories from five hundred years later?
It was precisely for this reason that Zhao Shuning had refuted her own speculations countless times.
"Achoo!"
In the Underworld, Shi Jiu, who was taking notes, sneezed.
She quickly put down her pen.
Looking around guiltily, she seemed to still hear Feng Zhan's words when he fell into the otherworld.
He had said, "Little Aunt, you've never been reliable."
Footsteps sounded from outside.
Shi Jiu quickly put away what she had just written.
The person who came in was her eldest sister, A Cha.
Since she entered, she had been staring at Shi Jiu.
Shi Jiu felt goosebumps rising on her skin.
"Sister, why are you looking at me like this?"
"You've done something wrong, haven't you, Little Shi Jiu?"
"What could I have done wrong?"
"About the otherworld?"
"Cough, cough, cough... Sister, don't you already know? You and Second Brother all know about Zhan'er's matter. Weren't all these approved by you?"
"You sent him to the wrong time, didn't you? Shi Jiu, how many years have you been the Meng Po? How could you still make such a mistake?"
Shi Jiu's eyes widened in shock.
How did her eldest sister know?
"Today, when I was playing pai - gow with your second sister, I saw a girl. That girl had different memories, just like your second sister did back then."
"Sister, you saw that person?"
"Otherwise, why would I come to find you?"
"What about Second Sister? Does Second Sister know too?"
A Cha glanced at the frightened Shi Jiu and couldn't help but snort.
"Shi Jiu, your second sister is extremely intelligent. How could she not see it? She didn't come to settle the score with you because she didn't want to lose her temper over this and damage our sisterly bond."
"Sister, I didn't do it on purpose."
Shi Jiu looked rather aggrieved. She really had no other choice.
Originally, they were supposed to send Feng Zhan to the current plane. But unexpectedly, another force collided with it at that time.
Under the impact of the two forces, the plane shifted.
As a result, Feng Zhan ended up five hundred years later.
The other force had been accumulating in a certain host. When that host was taken over, the force leaked out. Naturally, it had to fulfill its mission and bring the otherworldly soul from five hundred years later back to five hundred years ago.
It was a series of coincidences, but it was inevitable.
"I originally wanted to send A Zhan to this plane. But at that time, alas... The time was in chaos, and the space was distorted. That's why all these things happened."
A Cha looked at Shi Jiu.
She said, "You have to clean up the mess you've made yourself. Do you understand what you should do five hundred years later?"
"I understand..."
Shi Jiu hung her head dejectedly.
"Then I'll leave. I hope you don't hide anything else from me."
Hearing this, Shi Jiu was stunned.
She called out to A Cha, who was about to leave.
She said, "Actually, there's another thing."
Seeing Shi Jiu looking so guilty and on the verge of tears, A Cha managed to hold back her impending bad temper.
"Speak."
Shi Jiu said with a mournful face.
"After the time got mixed up, the girl's body didn't return to the plane five hundred years ago. So, I injected her soul into a new body."
Of course, due to the urgency, she didn't erase the girl's memories.
"So?"
A Cha frowned tightly.
Shi Jiu shrank her head and whispered, "So, that girl was originally a character in the history of the Kyushu Continent."
So, she couldn't be considered an outsider.
Black air began to faintly surround A Cha.
"Sister, I was wrong."
"You clean up your own mess, Shi Jiu. You're grown - up now. We can't solve all your problems for you."
"I know."
"Your second sister has already shown that girl a clear path. Shi Jiu, you're so muddle - headed. Don't you think about it? Your second sister is so intelligent. The moment she saw that girl, she must have seen through all your tricks. You still wanted to hide it from her. It's just that your second sister loves you. In this situation, she didn't beat you up but instead helped you think of a way to fix it."
Shi Jiu murmured, "Sister, I know I was wrong."
A Cha sighed and walked out of Shi Jiu's room.
Only after A Cha left did Shi Jiu dare to relax.
But in her heart, she felt both indignant and guilty.
Fortunately, her second sister didn't blame her. Everyone in the Feng family was extraordinary. Only by using the fourth son of the Feng family could the hatred and killing in that plane be quelled.
Shi Jiu had been on tenterhooks since she started planning this with Feng Zhan.
Sure enough.
In the end.
She messed things up once again.
"If things really get out of hand, I'll go to the otherworld myself. I hope it won't be too late."
Shi Jiu made up her mind and started looking for rifts.
Because of this mistake, A Zhan would surely encounter extremely tricky problems. She hoped that she could reach the time he was in correctly before it was too late.
Zhao Shuning closed the window.
Since she couldn't figure these things out, she could only accept her fate and make the best of the situation.
In a few days, her mother should arrive.
She still had to prepare to welcome them properly.