Quick Transmigration: Survive to the End

"Sister is back too?" Yinyin said with a smile. "I haven't seen her since I went into seclusion last year. We haven't been able to spend much time together while I was away these past few months. Now that I'm home, I can finally see her again."

“That’s perfect,” said Lin’s mother. “She will stay until after the Yuan family’s matriarch’s birthday celebration. If you’re not busy, you can stay at home for a while longer.”

Yinyin asked about the birthday of the matriarch of the Yuan family, and looked somewhat embarrassed: "I'm afraid I won't be able to stay at home until then."

"Are there so many things going on outside?" Lin's mother looked at her with some heartache. "No wonder you look so thin."

Yin Yin wisely refrained from arguing with her mother about whether she was thinner or more energetic, and simply answered the previous question: "It's not about what's going on outside, it's just that summer is here, and I'm going out with my master."

Both of Lin's parents were taken aback.

Lin's father took a sip of tea and said slowly, "You're already traveling on your own, why would His Majesty ask you to accompany him?"

“I am Master’s disciple, how can I not accompany Master?” Yin Yin said, then suddenly realized and explained to her parents, “Master doesn’t take Sister out because Sister is afraid of the sea.”

Lin's parents didn't know whether they believed it or not; they only told Yin Yin to stay with Xuan Nu.

Yinyin had only been at home for two days when someone came to report after she finished her training: "Miss, the eldest young lady has returned. She's with the master and madam right now, but..."

Yinyin was about to go over when she casually asked, "But what?"

The servant attending to Yin Yin said, "The second young master of the Yuan family is also here, along with another young master we don't recognize."

"An unfamiliar young master?" Yin Yin didn't rush over, but instead ordered, "Go and find out who he is."

Before long, the servant who had been sent out returned and reported: "Miss, we have found out."

"They said they were friends of Young Master Ohara and Miss, and that they were called the Third Young Master. They specially accompanied Miss back."

Yinyin frowned: "Did you say when you were leaving?"

The servant said, "They said they'd be leaving later, and that they'd be going with Young Master Ohara."

"I understand," Yin Yin said, not even wanting to get up. She immediately instructed the maid to close the door again. "If anyone asks, just say I'm still practicing and don't disturb them."

The maids agreed and did as instructed.

As the sun began to set, no one came to inquire, but Lin Jingjing returned to her residence from the main courtyard to tidy up.

Later, the maid learned that Young Master Xiaoyuan and the Third Young Master had already left, so she came to Yinyin's door to report.

Not long after Yinyin opened the door, Lin Jingjing came over.

"Sister," Yin Yin feigned ignorance, "when did you get back?"

“I just saw the old woman who serves you sitting at the door,” Lin Jingjing said. “I don’t believe she wouldn’t tell you I’m back.”

As she spoke, she gave a soft snort: "Now that I don't come to see you, you won't see me anymore?"

“How could that be?” Yin Yin didn’t intend to hide it from her. “Sister, if you had come back on your own, or at most had a future brother-in-law, I would have gone to see you immediately. But I don’t want to see outsiders.”

Lin Jingjing was a little puzzled: "Third Young Master, didn't you already know him? You were fine back at Jianmen Mountain, so why the sudden change... Could something have happened?"

Yinyin didn't answer directly, but asked first, "Are you and the Third Young Master quite familiar with each other now, Sister?"

Lin Jingjing replied truthfully, "I'm fine, but Zhongkang is more familiar with him."

"However, I noticed that Zhongkang's attitude was a bit strange. It didn't seem like he was on good terms with me. He even specifically told me to try not to offend the Third Young Master."

Yinyin looked up at her and said, "He knows this person is not easy to offend, yet he still brought him to our house?"

“Zhongkang was thinking of sending me back, but the Third Young Master said he was going to Yunzhou on business and wanted to go with Zhongkang, so it wouldn’t be right to send him away,” Lin Jingjing explained. Seeing that Yinyin was indeed very unhappy, she asked, “Yinyin, how did he offend you?”

“He was just trying to scheme against me, but I saw through it,” Yin Yin thought for a moment and still advised, “I don’t like someone who is so scheming. Sister, you should try to have less contact with him in the future, otherwise you might get tricked by him and end up with nothing.”

"Is he really that good?"

Lin Jingjing was a little suspicious, but she quickly agreed: "I understand, I will have less contact with him."

Yinyin didn't know if Lin Jingjing could keep her promise, but since she could make it at this moment, Yinyin decided to assume that she could.

Just then, Lin's parents sent a maid to call them, and the two sisters walked out hand in hand.

Lin Jingjing asked, "Yinyin, how many days can you stay at home this time? Will you come with me to the Yuan family's house next month?"

“It’s Madam Yuan’s birthday? I can’t go,” Yin Yin said. “Sister forgot, I’m going to sea with Master in the summer.”

Once the topic of going to sea came up, Lin Jingjing stopped worrying about it: "Luckily, I chose Qiuli as the date for my engagement, otherwise, without you, I would always feel like something is missing."

"I thought my sister had forgotten about me now that she has a future brother-in-law," Yin Yin said, feigning jealousy. "Turns out she still remembers me when something important happens?"

“Nonsense, how could I not remember you?” Lin Jingjing said with a hint of helplessness. “When you went down the mountain earlier, I was too far away to know. Later, I received the news and planned to come back, but then I heard that you had gone out. It’s not that I didn’t come back to see you on purpose.”

Yinyin then asked, "So, sister, you've been in the north for the past few months?"

“Not really,” Lin Jingjing said. “Besides the north, I’ve also been to places further west.”

“Those places are really desolate, not even our Lin family owns any property there. Occasionally there might be one or two inns, but they are all shady establishments.”

"If Zhongkang hadn't been alert, I would have almost been fooled by them."

Yinyin was a little worried: "Why did you run to such a dangerous place, sister? Is the target of this mission really that fast?"

Lin Jingjing coughed lightly: "It's not that he can run away, it's that Zhongkang and I wanted to see the beautiful scenery of 'a lone plume of smoke rising straight in the vast desert, and the setting sun sinking round in the long river,' so we went out for a walk. Who knew that we would get lost and wander further and further away."

“But even though we took the wrong path, we still gained something else,” Lin Jingjing said, smoothing her hair. “We made a good friend in the desert, who is said to be a prince from a desert country.”

"His kung fu is quite good. His swordsmanship is very open and powerful, quite different from the schools in the Central Plains. If Yinyin were here, she would definitely want to have a match with him."

The prince of the desert?

Yin Yin thought about the plot where Lin Jingjing's future son encountered danger in the desert, and asked after a moment's thought, "Could it be that the king's only son?"

“Yinyin, you guessed right,” Lin Jingjing smiled, her eyes crinkling. “He really is.”

Yin Yin blinked. So, from this moment on, Lin Jingjing and Yuan Zhongkang will have to collect the future male lead's cheat abilities together?

"Sisters, where have you been? Have you made many friends?"

“It’s not that fast,” Lin Jingjing said. “In just one year, we’ve only been to a few places.”

"But you have made a few more friends. When I have time in the future, I'll introduce you to them."