Quick Transmigration: Survive to the End

[In short, the Empress is still the best!]

The anchor nodded in agreement.

Li Yinyin blushed a little. Would people in later generations see her as having amazing beauty, each one a reincarnation of Chu Ziran?

She was a little hesitant to face it, so she left the live stream and refocused her attention on Aibo's live stream, only to find that Aibo's event had already ended and she was about to log off.

Bored, she scrolled down and came across a short video of a celebrity being greeted at the airport. Just as she was about to swipe away, the celebrity appeared.

A beautiful face that looked extremely familiar to her appeared before her.

Chu Ziran?

Li Yinyin stopped her hand from swiping away and looked at it again.

It has to be said that Chu Ziran is a prime example of someone whose beauty is unparalleled; there's simply no substitute for him online. He's so beautiful that female celebrities don't dare to appear in the same frame as him, for fear that they won't outshine him, but rather be outshone by him.

After all, modern makeup and hairstyling have amplified Chu Ziran's physical advantages even more.

"Yinyin, you're looking at Chu Ziran too?" Xu Yao finished packing her things and was about to call Li Yinyin out for dinner when she saw what was on her page. "Chu Ziran's face is so beautiful, I could look at it a thousand times and never get tired of it. If they had cast Chu Ziran as Chu Guijun in that amazing drama, I would definitely have watched it."

"However, it is rumored online that Chu Ziran comes from the Chu family of the Western Territory. If this is true, Chu Ziran might actually look like that Noble Lady Chu. After all, the Chu family of the Western Territory was one of the families that left the Ming Dynasty with the Golden Crow Army, so their lineage must have never been broken."

"Do you think it's possible that the Chu family in the Western Territory has a portrait of Consort Chu? It's said that when the Chu family left, they took everything related to the Empress and Consort Chu with them. The only portrait of the Empress that remains is the one that survived because it was hidden in the palace by the last emperor."

"To be honest, although the last emperor has been criticized a lot, this one thing alone is enough for many sycophantic cultists to offer incense to him. Who told the Western Regions to hide the empress's things so well?"

“Speaking of which,” Xu Yao pinched Li Yinyin’s chin and looked her over from side to side, “Yinyin, I’ve noticed that you look quite a bit like the Empress’s portrait. You even share the same name as the Empress. Could it be that the Li in your family is the same Li from the Ming Dynasty? We grew up together, you can’t keep this from me!”

Li Yinyin thought about it carefully: "I don't know that, after all, my family has never participated in the sacrificial ceremony at the Li clan in the Western Territory."

“That’s true,” Xu Yao said, deflated. “If you were from the Li family, you would definitely have to participate in the ancestral worship every year.”

Li Yinyin nodded, but in her heart she thought that in this life, she might really still be a member of the Li family. After all, although her family didn't go to the Western Border to worship their ancestors, the mountain they visited every year during Qingming Festival and New Year's looked very much like the one in Shangshui Village. However, times have changed, and the landscape has also changed, so Li Yinyin couldn't be completely sure.

Li Yinyin shut down her computer, quickly packed her handbag, and went out with Xu Yao. There's one advantage in modern times that ancient times couldn't match, besides electronics and air conditioning: the delicious food from the food street.

Li Yinyin and Xu Yao walked together from one end of the street to the other, their hands almost overflowing with things. Grilled sausages and wolf-tooth potatoes were must-haves, milk tea was a must, hot and sour noodles could be put aside for now, since wide noodles can be added to mala tang, and there were also chicken strips, the fried ones at the end of the street were really amazing!

Seeing that all the food she bought was spicy, Xu Yao couldn't help but swallow hard and opted for very mild. It wasn't that she didn't want to eat, but she could only eat so much; any more and she would have to gulp down water.

"Junior Li," a cheerful voice rang out, "Are you out for dinner with your friends?"

Before she could even turn around, Xu Yao's face showed a hint of teasing as she whispered, "Oh ho, it's Senior Tong! Our department's famously gentle and handsome guy!"

Tong? Li Yinyin turned around, and sure enough, it was another familiar face.

"Hello, Senior Tong. I'm just out to buy some snacks."

Tong Xuechang originally wanted to offer to treat them, but seeing that they all had several bags in their hands, he could only say, "You've already bought everything? I thought you hadn't eaten yet, and I was planning to invite you to eat with us. I'm also out eating with my roommate."

Xu Yao immediately said, "If Senior Tong is inviting us, then... we still need to go back. We have some things to do when we get back to the dorm. Sorry, Senior Tong."

Xu Yao was just about to agree, after all, Tong was good-looking, came from a well-off family, and seemed to like Yin Yin. They were a good match, and if they got to know each other better, maybe things would turn out well.

But Li Yinyin nudged her from behind and she immediately understood that Li Yinyin was unhappy. She swallowed her words and turned them into a refusal.

Senior Tong was a little disappointed: "It's okay, it's okay, your business is more important."

Without saying anything more, the group parted ways in opposite directions after bidding farewell.

"Yinyin, look at you, what a great opportunity! I think Senior Tong is quite interested in you," Xu Yao advised her as they walked. "You're in college now, not high school anymore, where there's a no-dating rule. If you start dating now, your brother definitely won't restrict you like he used to."

"It's not that I don't want to talk about it, it's just that I've gotten used to it, and I always feel that I'm not quite there for Senior Tong."

"Alright," Xu Yao sighed like someone who'd been there before. If you're not really moved, there's nothing you can do. After all, love in your youth is all about liking someone.

Seeing her expression change, Li Yinyin said, "What are you thinking about? Why are you suddenly cosplaying as a compassionate deity?"

“I’m just thinking about very philosophical questions,” Xu Yao said with an air of composure. “You’re still a young person, it’s not time for you to understand such complicated things.”

Li Yinyin twitched her lips and decided to ignore her friend who had suddenly gone mad.

After all, we live in the modern world and should embrace species diversity.