Farewell to You Between the Future and the Past - Chapter 3

Chapter 3

Suddenly, Xiao Zhao seemed to notice something.

She cried out in surprise, and the comments instantly came alive.

I looked closely.

It was the diary I had written in the past.

“Professor, I think I found the personal notes of the First Demon Empress of Great Yin!”

Xiao Zhao was beside herself with excitement.

The comments were flying by, too.

[Is this a scam?! Why does it look like the bottom-right corner of the cover is written in simplified Chinese?!]

[You’re not seeing things. I saw it too. It really is simplified Chinese.]

[Don’t tell me this is a modern fake. Otherwise, how could simplified Chinese be unearthed?! Didn’t we excavate Yin Dynasty writing decades ago?]

The professor took it from her with the utmost care.

His hands were trembling slightly. On the cover, the two characters for Lu Zhao were written clear as day.

After I transmigrated, I had written them there to remind myself at every moment of who I was, afraid that I would be assimilated by that world.

On the first page, I had written:

[This is my first day after transmigrating. I don’t know why I’ve come to this era.

[I want to go home. This era is just too terrifying.

[Today, I saw a young palace maid accidentally break a vase, and both her hands were chopped off.

[The matron said this was the price of being clumsy.

[If we don’t learn to be quick-witted, her fate will be our fate.

[Waaah, I want to go home. I miss my mom.

[If only I could wake up from sleep and be back home.

[I’ll never make Mom angry again.

[Oh, right. Should I write down where my home is?

[It would be terrible if I forgot the way home later.]

Back then, I had only just graduated from high school. Even though I had been frightened the moment I transmigrated,

I was still very naive.

I always believed someone would descend from the heavens and take me home.

…

Neat, upright simplified Chinese appeared before everyone’s eyes.

[No, seriously, is this not a joke? Doesn’t transmigration only happen in novels?]

[They even made it sound so detailed. There’s an actual address and everything.]

[Am I the only one getting chills? If this is real, how much pain must she have suffered? What exactly did she go through to become the First Demon Empress?!]

The comments scrolled so quickly I could barely make them out.

[I just looked up this address. It’s real! And this family had a daughter who disappeared ten years ago. It all matches the diary.]

But that comment was quickly buried under the others, and no one noticed it.