The Princess Is Above - Chapter 1

Chapter 1

While transferring subway lines on my way home that night, I saw a rich lady in hanfu.

She was decked out in gold and silver, hairpins and jade, radiating wealth from head to toe. Her makeup was flawless, and the fabric of her clothes was silk as smooth as milk.

The second she stepped into the crowd, she became the visual center of the entire station.

She stood there among the people, looking nervous and awkward.

Trains and streams of commuters brushed past her.

Several times, she looked like she wanted to ask a passerby for help, only to shrink back again.

In the end, she locked onto me-the person who looked easiest to talk to.

Lifting her skirts, she trotted over and gave me a formal bow.

“Might I trouble you, miss, to tell me what place this is? And what year it is tonight?”

My expression at the time was basically-

GG Bond, shocked.

Wait, no. Are hanfu girls these days really this committed to the roleplay?

After a whole lot of back-and-forth, I finally understood that this girl had transmigrated here.

Her name was Yuan Xi, the eldest daughter of Emperor Wen of Jin.

The era she came from was roughly seventeen hundred years ago.

Seeing how utterly out of place she looked in our surroundings, I honestly felt bad for her.

I, Zhu Yuechen, a young single woman living alone with a bit of money to spare, figured taking her home would amount to nothing more than setting out one extra pair of chopsticks and feeding one extra mouth.

So my heart softened, and I picked her up and took her home.

Only later did I realize the poor little thing I had picked up was no poor little thing at all.

I had picked up an ancestor.

She was curious about everything here.

She ran all over my apartment, touching this one second and poking that the next.

“What is this thing that blows cold wind?”

“An air conditioner.”

“Then what is this thing that pours hot spring water?”

“A faucet. The big block up there is the water heater.”

She pulled open the fridge, her eyes full of envy.

“You have so many tribute fruits from the Western Regions in your home!”

“Huh? I mean, I guess? These are Shine Muscat grapes. The supermarket had them on sale recently, fifteen-eighty per jin.”

That was the gap between two different times.

The things she found astonishing were nothing but my everyday life.

I took her out shopping for clothes.

When I held a taro boba milk tea to her lips, she was still trying to refuse it. “Ah, but no one has tested it for poison yet!”

“Tsk. Why are you so difficult?”

I shoved it straight into her mouth.

“Mmff…”

She instantly went quiet.

Ten minutes later, the milk tea had become a croissant.

Twenty minutes later, the croissant had become a hand-grabbed pancake.

Thirty minutes later, the hand-grabbed pancake had become stir-fried yogurt.

When we passed a pet supply store, she trotted right over and pressed her face to the glass display window.

“This little cat slave is so cute! I kept one when I was little too!” Her eyes were shining.

The shop assistant beside us looked us up and down with a very strange expression.

I gave a soft cough, pulled Yuan Xi into a corner, and lowered my voice.

“Babe, things are different now. We don’t call them cat slaves here.”

“Then what are they called?”

“Hakimi.”

“Ohhh…”

Since I had to go back to the office tomorrow and work a 996 schedule, I dug out an old phone I no longer used and taught Yuan Xi how to play with it so she wouldn’t get bored at home alone.

Yuan Xi was very smart and picked things up quickly. Before long, she had learned how to scroll short videos.

She came over holding up the phone.

On the screen was a tall, muscular, handsome guy filming an outfit-change video.

“Someone in the comments says, ‘It’s my first time using Douyin. I heard that if you tap like, you can marry the person in the video.’ Is that true?”

She jabbed wildly at the screen, her eyes glowing with excitement. “Aaaaaah, he’s so handsome! So handsome! This princess wants him as my personal shadow guard!”

…

My silence was deafening.