Prince! The political conspiracy is not a play, the show is real

Tao Yao, a middle-level white-collar worker at the perfume brand company "Fumeng" in City A, worked diligently for five years and finally made a name for herself in the job, but was suddenly fired and forced to resign at the age of 28.

After being laid off, Tao Yao couldn't find a job, so she could only work as a cashier in a convenience store on the side of the road to earn some money for food.

Tao Yao had to admit that while she was a somewhat impressive figure in Fumeng's workplace—capable of winning the top prize in competitive bidding and fawning over clients at social gatherings—she simply wasn't the right person to work as a cashier. There were three reasons for this: First, she wasn't good at counting and often made the wrong change; second, she wasn't very quick-witted and was always slow to count and load the goods; and third, she was incredibly unlucky, constantly encountering unscrupulous customers who would run away without paying.

After work that day, Tao Yao stood in front of the vending machine, the few bills in her hands, which were left with wages deducted by the unscrupulous boss, were already wet with sweat.

As the sky darkened, a light rain suddenly began to fall. Tao Yao didn't want to go home yet, so she took a detour to a deep alley. At the end of the alley, a tavern with a unique decoration caught her eye.

The door of the pub was ajar, and on the sign was the name of the pub "Ye Mei" written in crooked neon strips.

Tao Yao couldn't help but walk forward. As soon as she entered the door, her eyes met with the female bartender standing in front of the bar. The bartender waved her hand enthusiastically, motioning her to come over.

Tao Yao sat down on a high stool. Suddenly, she was enveloped by a deep-sea indigo-blue ambient light. The tension of her busy daytime routine was forced to relax in this moment of darkness, and she suddenly felt as if she were sinking into a void.

The bartender pushed a cocktail towards Tao Yao. The dark blue, translucent drink shone with an indigo hue under the dim ambient lighting of the pub.

Then, a lit cigarette was handed to Tao Yao. She was stunned for a moment, because she didn't know how to smoke.

The bartender said cheerfully, "This one's on me."

Tao Yao carefully brought the cigarette close to her lips, took a sip, and choked, coughing repeatedly.

She couldn't stop coughing, so she simply raised her glass and drank. Perhaps it was the alcohol that made her think of her life motto: "As long as you are alive, you should work hard until you die."

If you can't achieve anything and gain fame, you might as well die.

Thinking of being laid off in middle age and the foreseeable tragic future that was about to come, Tao Yao suddenly felt anxious and short of breath, and his vision was hazy.

Tao Yao heard the bartender's voice, which was hazy and indistinct: "Hey, drink slowly, this is not the way to drink alcohol! You have to drink it slowly, one sip at a time..."

Immediately afterwards, her tongue was pried open again, and cold liquid poured into her mouth again.

"I don't want to drink anymore. I really can't drink anymore." Tao Yao hurriedly stopped him.

But then a strange voice sounded: "Second Miss, I stole this broth from the kitchen with great difficulty. If you don't drink it, you will really starve to death."

Tao Yao suddenly felt a chill in her hair and bones, and suddenly woke up. She found herself lying on an unfamiliar bed. Above her head was a watercolor gauze curtain that was neither big nor small, with a crude orchid embroidered in the center.

Where was this? Weren't we just drinking in the pub? Could this be the pub's guest room? The decor is so antique, it totally doesn't match the style of the pub. Oh, and where's her bag? Her little change and bank cards are in there.

Tao Yao jumped up from the bed and began to rummage around for her things. Unfortunately, there was nothing on the bed except a quilt and a pillow - not that it really counted, because she also poured out two stale cold steamed buns from the quilt. They were hard and when she took them out of the quilt, they hit the bed board with a crisp sound like stones hitting the ground.

"Why...are there still steamed buns here..." Tao Yao was a little slow to react, and suddenly felt someone shaking her shoulders vigorously.

Tao Yao turned around and saw a familiar face - it was the bartender who had met Ye Mei, but she was dressed in ancient clothes and holding a bowl of cold soup that had been left overnight, which attracted a fly to hover around the rim of the bowl.

The person in front of her had the bartender's face, but seemed like a completely different person. She said blankly, "Second Miss, don't scare Huai Ling. That chef Wang who had lung disease died two years ago was like this before he died. He was originally sick, but suddenly he became energetic and had a last burst of energy..." Before she finished speaking, she burst into tears and said in a sad voice, "Miss, you can't die. You are the only one in this world who is good to Huai Ling. If you die, Huai Ling will not be able to live..."

Tao Yao was stunned at the spot, not yet able to understand what was happening, when a thought suddenly popped into her mind -

She traveled through time.

This woman claiming to be Huai Ling must be related to the bartender. The bowl of leftover soup she was holding might be the secret medicine that could help her travel back home. Without a second thought, Tao Yao grabbed it and drank it all.

After drinking a bowl of soup, not only did nothing change, but her throat also felt greasy and dirty, so she couldn't help but spit it all out.

"Second Miss!!!" Huai Ling exclaimed.

She had thought it was something only seen in TV dramas, but it actually happened to her. She hadn't even recovered from her unemployment crisis yet, and now she had to face the crisis of traveling through time and space to restart her life. This was simply a joke.

Tao Yao sat on the bed with a dazed look on her face, and the memories of this body gradually became clearer in her mind.

It turned out that she had traveled through time and space to be the daughter of a general. This general had the same name as her, but with an additional surname: Shi Taoyao. Shi Taoyao's father was the meritorious general Shi Yiqian, and her mother was Princess Jin Shen from the Western Regions. With this family background, she should have been considered a daughter of a wealthy general. Unfortunately, at this time, Taoyao was a fake adopted daughter.

This true daughter of a military family was Shi Lanxin, the biological daughter of Shi Yiqian and Princess Jin Shen, who had been lost as a child. At that time, Shi Yiqian, seeking to comfort Princess Jin Shen, who was daily depressed over the loss of her daughter, brought an orphan girl, Shi Lanxin's own age, from the desert and adopted her as his own. Unfortunately, the child was not well-received, leaving Princess Jin Shen heartbroken and dying prematurely from excessive grief.

Not long after Princess Jin Shen's death, Shi Yiqian married a new wife. Coincidentally, in the same year, Shi Lanxin, who had been missing for many years, was suddenly found by the government.

Shi Yiqian was overjoyed when father and daughter reunited. It was also in this year that the child he adopted finally had his own name, Shi Taoyao.

As for why it was named this, it was probably because Shi Yiqian still had lingering longing for Princess Jin Shen. In the dying spring of Mobei, he had brought a branch of peach blossoms in full bloom from the capital.

Now, time has passed, the old friends have disappeared, and the peach blossoms in the capital will never bloom in the deserts of Mobei again.

Over the years, Shi Taoyao hadn't had a good life. Shi Lanxin, relying on her father's favoritism, often teased and bullied Shi Taoyao. Before this, it was Shi Lanxin who deliberately forced Taoyao to eat a dead mouse. Shi Taoyao refused to comply, so she was starved for three days and three nights, eventually dying of starvation.

As for Huai Ling, she was a servant, but she and Shi Taoyao had a life-and-death relationship, like sisters. This broth was made from scraps she had secretly stolen from the kitchen at the risk of her life, thinking she could at least give the Second Young Lady a taste of the fat.

But she probably never imagined that the person who woke up again was no longer her second lady.

Tao Yao suppressed the urge to vomit in her stomach and habitually took out a yellowed silk handkerchief from her pocket to wipe the dirt from the corner of her mouth.

"Huai Ling, is there nothing else to eat?"

My stomach was cramping, it seemed that this body was really starving.

At this moment, the door was kicked open with a powerful kick. The person who came in was Shi Lanxin. She was well-dressed and smiled arrogantly: "What do you want to eat? You've been hungry for these days. I'll satisfy you."