Star Iron: The Past and Present Life of the Gender-Swapped Dragon Lord

Dan Heng looked around at the empty space and the lonely mirror in front of him, pondered for a few seconds, and then stepped forward.

A stunningly beautiful young woman also stepped forward and stood face to face with Dan Heng.

Dan Heng scanned the mirror up and down, and the black-haired girl in the mirror followed suit, moving her eyes up and down as well.

Looking at the lively and graceful girl in the mirror, Danheng couldn't help but admire herself.

"Hmm, you look really good!"

With one side of her mouth slightly upturned, Danheng placed her hand on the smooth, cold mirror surface.

The girl in the mirror also reached out and placed her hand on the same spot, and the two pairs of eyes gazed at each other quietly.

Looking at his own greenish-blue eyes in the mirror, his silver-gray eyes couldn't help but ponder.

"These blue contact lenses are pretty nice...wait a minute!"

Danheng suddenly woke up with a start.

"When did I wear colored contact lenses?!"

Startled, Dan Heng almost unleashed a ninjutsu and leaned back to retreat.

But this retreat caused problems.

The girl in the mirror was pulled out of the mirror by Danheng with their fingers intertwined.

?

Dan Heng stared wide-eyed at the expressionless girl in front of him, his mind going blank.

"you you you you you……"

Before Danheng could even make a name for himself, he saw the girl in front of him, who looked exactly like him, glare at him.

"What do you mean, 'shut up'!"

"Oh."

"..."

"...Did you really shut up when I told you to?"

"Uh, what else?"

"..."

Dan Heng saw the girl in front of him glance at him, and then sighed helplessly.

"Is this really me...?"

"Huh? What?"

Danheng said he didn't hear what the other person was saying and turned his head to ask the other person to repeat it.

"It's okay, go have fun."

"Oh."

"..."

The two of them just stared at each other, not knowing what to say.

A deafening silence began to fill the air, and Danheng felt his eyes were about to ache if he kept staring.

"Never mind, let's sit down and have some tea first."

Just as Dan Heng was about to say something, he heard the "Dan Heng" in front of him raise his hand and wave it, and the originally calm lake surface was immediately rippled with surging waves.

But these waves didn't rush around haphazardly; instead, they converged towards "Danheng's" palm.

Finally, the unruly waves condensed into a water sphere in Danheng's hands. Then, with a wave of Danheng's hand, two comfortable chairs were created from water, with a table in the middle, on which were placed two exquisite teacups.

"Wow, how did you do that?"

"you will not?!"

"Should I know how?"

"It shouldn't be..."

Danheng looked puzzled and curious, while "Danheng" looked incredulous and bewildered.

Finally, after brewing a cup of tea in silence, "Danheng" drank a great deal of silence that he had never experienced in his entire life.

Clearly, Danheng has been rendered speechless by what he's done.

"So, who are you?"

Dan Heng narrowed his eyes and looked at the girl drinking tea opposite him. The girl was testing him. After making a preliminary assessment of the girl's possible identity and background, Dan Heng had a guess in his mind.

"I?"

The girl seemed to find it somewhat amusing, holding the cup she had just brought to her lips in mid-air with her right hand, and shook her head with a smile.

"Shouldn't you know my identity better than anyone else?"

The girl smiled without saying a word; the answer was in her eyes.

"..."

"Hey! Wake up! Isn't this girl awake yet?"

"Wow~ She's so beautiful! My dream girl type! I just—slurp it down!"

"Who knows? He suddenly appeared near the mining site, and he was unconscious."

"what did the doctor say?"

"That's strange. I checked my body and there are no symptoms. How could I be unconscious?"

"She's so pretty, I want to be her dog!"

"Could it be that he was abandoned by someone? Like, the kind of person who abandons their wife..."

"Then I'm even more excited!"

"Someone come here! I've put up with him for too long! Throw him out!!!" (Flies away!)

Dan Heng felt a commotion near his ear, then opened his eyes in displeasure.

But as soon as I opened my eyes, faces came close to me, showing concern.

Seeing this scene, Danheng recalled a famous picture from his previous life.

"That's great, you finally..."

"Was the operation successful?"

"?"

"Doctor, the patient seems to have hit his head."

……

"So, you're saying I suddenly fell into this mining site from some unknown place?"

Dan Heng slapped his forehead speechlessly, which earned him a resounding affirmation from the crowd.

The Sangbo tunnel is really... interconnected in all directions.

Oh well, it'll be fine once we get to the lower levels. We'll run into them eventually anyway.

Danheng gave up struggling and accepted this slightly damn fact.

"Well, I'm fine now, you don't need to keep staring at me like that."

Dan Heng, feeling uneasy under the scrutiny of the people from the lower district, struggled to speak.

"Hello, my name is Antonina, and I'm in charge of this mining site."

"Danheng"

A woman wearing a hat stepped out from the crowd, her eyes scrutinizing.

"Well then, Miss Danheng, judging from your clothes, you don't seem to be from our lower district."

"Hmm... that's definitely not it."

Danheng spoke the truth and got up from the hard bed.

“I know what you want to ask. We’re not from the Upper District. We should be considered… outsiders.”

Antonina paused for a moment, looked Dan Heng up and down, and then nodded with a complicated expression.

"You don't doubt what I said?"

Why doubt?

Antonina said calmly, "First of all, judging from the clothes, you can't survive in Belleburg wearing such thin clothes. You'll freeze to death sooner or later."

Antonina's tone remained unchanged, "Secondly, even if you're not from the upper echelons, what does that have to do with me?"

"The lower level is already chaotic enough; one or two more won't be a problem."

With a helpless expression, Antonina waved her hand.

"What's this called again? Oh right, I think it's called 'the more debts you have, the less burden you carry'?"

……

Is this word really used correctly?

Dan Heng felt ashamed; perhaps this was the composure and confidence of a foreigner.

"Alright, now that you're alright, I'm going to get back to work."

Antonina picked up her pickaxe and helmet and turned to catch up with the main group that had already set off towards the mine.

After a moment's thought, Danheng chose to follow.

Antonina glanced at Danheng, who was at the back of the group, but said nothing and silently followed the main group forward.

Ignoring the fleeting glances and averted stares from the many men along the way, Danheng pondered the "self" in her dream.

Just now, in his dream, he had a contest with "himself" using the Cloud-Striking Technique, and Dan Heng now feels he has gained a lot.

After all, her marksmanship was something she had figured out on her own over time, without any serious study of it, while this "Dan Heng" carried a sharp killing intent in every move she made.

Their defense was also watertight, just waiting to find a weakness to launch a counterattack.

Although Danheng didn't say anything, Danheng could sense that she was guiding him.

The way he looked at me was a bit...

Are you disappointed with someone?