章 2: Boom transmigration: poisoned wine

" Liu Hui Ying, wake up we are in deep shit!"

" Hui Ying! Wake up! Or else I am going to whack your ass!"

" Hui Ying dear wake up please before you become just a spirit of the dead like us!"

Death —— the word was scary enough for Liu Hui Ying to wake up at once as, though her head felt like it has been smashed with a baseball bat with a then thrown in front of a bus to be trodden on, she still sat up straight despite the rolling and tilting world. " What's going on, I don't think that I drank so much right?"

She blinked the haze out of her eyes and then looked around, what she saw made her frown —— she was lying on a bed that had a circular opening with curtains hanging on both sides, the stuffing of the bed was harder than the one she was used to, and what was more the entire room was filled with the thing she has only seen in historical dramas. " W..What is this?" She jumped out of the bed and almost stumbled because of the length of the dress she was wearing, stunned she looked down and what she saw nearly made her pass out.

" This …This ..why is this on my body?" she asked the three ghosts hovering in the air, though what she was going through was simply unexpected but at least she had her three employees with her or else Liu Hui Ying was sure that she was going to lose her mind. " What happened? Are we dragged into some shooting or something "

Jia Li stared at her with a complicated expression before pointing to the small mirror that was sitting on the table across the bed and saying, " You better take a look at your face first, you will get a better understanding of what's happening."

" My face? Is it scarred? Did I receive plastic surgery or what——" Liu Hui Ying's words were cut off the second she looked in the mirror because in the mirror, it wasn't her but the woman in red. Her peach blossom eyes blinked along with the rhythm with which Liu Hui Ying was blinking her eyes. " This can't be happening …No way is this happening…" muttered Liu Hui Ying as she backed off from the mirror. " That's ..That's not me!"

And what was more the girl was too slender like a frail little flower! All the muscles that she worked hard for in the police unit were gone and were now replaced with silky, soft skin that was nothing like her. Even her double D's were gone!

Covering her face with her hands, Liu Hui Ying shook her head. " This can't be happening to me, not a night before my promotion!"

" Well, this really did happen," said Li Gang as he floated down on the floor and rubbed his jaw. " I don't know what happened when you touched that woman, but as soon as you caught her something weird happened and then we were here."

" Li Gang is right," said Jia Li as she too came to stand next to Liu Hui Ying and softly spoke, " I know that you are shocked but the truth is that you are now in the body of the woman who was trying to jump from the cliff."

Liu Hui Ying stared at the two of them before snapping angrily. " You two should at least let me deny my reality in peace for two seconds, can you? What is this fierce way of making me realise the truth of my situation? Do you really need to do something as cruel as that?"

" It will be better for you to get hold of yourself as quickly as possible because the woman was delivered poisoned wine just a minute ago," said Li Gang causing Liu Hui Ying's thoughts to pause at once.

" What did you say …what wine …?" For the first time in her life, Liu Hui Ying felt like she couldn't wrap her head around a peculiar situation, which was new to her given that she was in the police and was prepared to tackle the worst out of the worst situation.

" Poison wine," said Grandma Lan Fen as she took a sniff of the jar that was kept on the cabinet next to the bed and shook her head. " The scent of death in there is very faint but it is there, I am afraid that even if the poison doesn't have the ability to kill you … constant consumption will lead to a very slow painful death."

Liu Hui Ying chuckled, looking at the large jar and said, " Who in their right mind would drink a poisoned wine?"

" They will if all the sources of water, food and everything else were taken away from the room," muttered Li Gang under his breath, only then did Liu Hui Ying take a glance at the room and realised that her third employee was right. Except for the poisoned wine, there was nothing else in the room, it was as if the one who was keeping this woman here, was waiting for the woman to become desperate and take a sip of the poisoned wine.

" You have got to be kidding me," she strolled out of the bedroom, the three ghosts following behind her. As she walked out of the bedroom, she realised that whoever had the woman locked in the bedroom was really serious—— they really wanted the woman to die! The entire room was completely empty of anything edible and the woman was the only one inside the room.

" This woman must have done something really bad," commented Jia Li as she surveyed the surrounding. " I mean a slow death than a painless one, it's really terrible."

" And that terrible death is going to befall on me in case I don't get out of this room quickly!" said Liu Hui Ying as she headed towards the door of the room but no sooner did she push open the door than several swords were aimed at her at once.

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章 3: Informant

Disclaimer: All characters, dynasties, names and everything else in this book is imaginary. Any correlation is simply a coincidence.

Li Gang immediately pulled Liu Hui Ying back with her collars as he murmured in her ears, " I don't want to tell you this but those are the real deal, if they passed by you …then we will be holding your funeral tomorrow."

Listening to his words Liu Hui Ying stiffened as she took a step back voluntarily and looked at the swords that were aimed at her and said, " This is the most unlucky day of my life…I swear."

" Your majesty," a deep voice with a timbre that was hard to ignore echoed in the wooden corridor and Liu Hui Ying looked over her shoulder to see who this 'your majesty' was when Jia Li turned her head in the front and said, " You are the one wearing a crown, what are you looking back at for?"

" Have you lost your investigation skills along with your observation? Why are you making so many mistakes one after another?" said Grandma Lan Fen as she stared at Liu Hui Ying with concern. " You must have seen the crown in your head when you looked in the mirror right now, right?"

" You are talking like I transmigrate every day," murmured Liu Hui Ying in a low voice. " And with a poisoned wine waiting for me."

" I think we can still take this many men," said Li Gang rolling his right shoulder while cracking his neck. " We can just go bam and then whoosh and then bam, I am sure they will be down."

Jia Li rolled her eyes at him. " Do you think that its that easy? From what I can see, we are in a completely different place and era. We transmigrated here so surely the way of going back lies in this very place, if we were to leave then how will we go back huh?"

When Jia Li said those words, the lock on Liu Hui Ying's mind finally opened and she punched her right fist in the palm of her left hand. Jia Li was right, if she wanted to go back then she will have to look around for clues and see if there was any invisible path that led her back to her world. Just as she was thinking about how to go back to her world, a hand reached out to her followed by a very foul smell and she immediately dodged it.

" Uh oh," said Li Gang with a shake of his head. " You have to be kidding me."

" That's what I think it is, right?" said Grandam Lan Fen as she peered at the face of the newcomer.

Jia Li winced. " Yes, it's a man."

" Your majesty," the man dressed in black hanfu with armour on his chest looked at Liu Hui Ying and spoke cordially, " This general is afraid that you cannot leave your room——"

He was still speaking when Liu Hui Ying closed the door on his face and turned her back to the figure standing outside before striding in and rubbing her temples. " What is that doing here?"

" You might be forgetting but we aren't in our house anymore," said Li Gang with an amused voice. " Man, you should see your face, you look like you have stepped in shit or something of the sort."

" Well, men are no different from trash anyway," said Liu Hui Ying feeling an itch almost crawling on her skin.

" Hey, I am a man too, you know?"

" You don't count."

Li Gang placed his hands on his waist and said, " How so?"

"You are a ghost and…" her eyes flashed before she shook her head and said, " I can take you on if you try anything ."

Seeing that her expression has turned really bad, Li Gang said nothing. On the other hand, Jia Li sympathetically floated towards Liu Hui Ying and said, " Just take a deep breath and think of him as a potato or something, just like you did when you went to work and nothing more."

Liu Hui Ying sucked in a breath and sat down on the bed with a circular opening, her fingers drumming on the edge of the wooden frame. " What we need right now, is someone who will let us know what kind of mess we are in at the moment." She blinked her eyes, her curled eyelashes fanning her cheeks as she looked around the almost empty room before coming to a stop at the poisoned wine. " Or else, I will have no chance but to take the most extreme step. Because no way I am getting executed like the old way …I heard that dying like that hurts a lot."

Grandma Lan Fen nodded. " A few years ago I met with a traitor general's soul and he told me that when he died, he was literally begging for death to take him. I don't see you begging but you never know.." she trailed off when Liu Hui Ying looked at her.

Getting up from her seat, she started pacing around the room. " I think you three——"

" I am telling you that my mistress is innocent and if you want to give her a prejudiced death then so be it! I will die together with her!" A female shouted outside the room causing Liu Hui Ying to pause and turned to walk back into the front hall from her bedroom and stare at the black silhouette that was outside the paper sliding door.

" Qui Ai, listen to me——"

"I don't need to listen to you general Yu Lingyun, I have decided my fate. If death is what awaits my mistress then I will happily follow her!" After saying that the female silhouette threw the hand of the man outside and pushed open the door.

" What the, she looks like she is sixteen or something," said Liu Hui Ying taking the small tear-stricken face with round eyes. Two bouncing buns were tied on the head of the maid and she was dressed in a pink blouse with a sky blue skirt, her steps unsteady because of how much she was crying.

Jia Li looked at her and pointed out. " You don't look that old either, seventeen at most."

"The Emperor must be a pervert," sneered Liu Hui Ying as she stared at the maid and clapped her hands. " But who cares about him, I got what I want."

Grandma Lan Fen turned to look at the maid and said, " You wanted a servant? Are we not enough for you? Did we make a mistake?"

" Shii," making an annoyed sound, Liu Hui Ying looked at Grandma Lan Fen and said, " I meant that I got my information ticket," while peering out of the room, she pointed at the girl and said, " She is going to be our informant."

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