[2ha x genderfluid reader] The Husky And The White Cat Shizun With Their Baobei

Chapter 3

Every novel has a beginning and an ending, as well as mistakes during the drafting process. You were the mistake. After all, in your past lifetime,

Even with your existence, nothing has changed. In fact, you probably made it worse for both Chu Wanning and yourself. And if someone were to ever go up to your past self and tell you, "You're going to be reincarnated into a blood-thirsty novel filled with continuous angst," you would probably only laugh their comments off.

But now look at your current state; you can no longer laugh anymore; the joke has turned real.

"That should be enough herbs for today. The rest of the afternoon, I can explore the forest," you said to yourself.

You looked at the stack of herbs you collected from the forest; it filled the wooden bucket to the brim. There weren't many rare herbs around your original area due to your constant presence. So you ended up venturing away from the village, stopping near a river. It was also because you were thirsty and tired from collecting all the herbs. But of course, you weren't that foolish; you made sure to keep a dagger on you just in case of any danger.

Ever since you got reborn again, you have repeated the same activities that you do in the village. There was this role: the herb collector. The original owner's body was that of the herb collector of the village. All villages have their own herb collector; those techniques are often passed down from generations or taught by the previous herb collector. Ying Qin was the previous herb collector of the village.

During your second past life, you remembered her telling you about her childhood. Ying Qin's own father taught her the skills when she was young, and she always enjoys watching from afar as her own father picked those herbs from the soil. Later on, Ying Qin taught the original Y/N about it until you came along, resulting in Ying Qin having to'retaught' it again. Even despite that, Ying Qin never complains.

Ying Qin was born from the former male herb collector and a female villager from the other village. The two lovers meet under the guides of fate and fall in love upon one's rescue. It was a simple love story-one that you didn't give your full attention to.

In the past, once you realized that you had been reincarnated into a novel, you paid more attention to thinking about how you would interact with the main characters and how to become a disciple of Sisheng Peak. So you never truly care to listen to the full story.

You made sure to visit the forest daily to collect herbs for the village. The additional herbs were sold to the nearby villagers. The knowledge that you learned from your second past life allowed you to identify the rare herbs from the regular kind as well as sort the herbs from the poisonous ones. The rest of the time, you have decided to focus on improving your spiritual energy control and spending more time with Ying Qin.

You decided to explore the area in the forest that you hadn't explored in your previous life out of boredom. Reading novels made you learn that oftentimes, when exploring, the main characters will find some treasures, like a legendary sword or some mythic weapon. Adding to the fact that this world does have cultivators, it must have some mythic weapons hidden in the wild. However, you're not the main characters, but it's still worth a try. In your past life, you explored almost the entire forest, yet you found nothing. Instead, your past self was quite unfortunate and ended up finding groups of wild animals.

But also, thanks to that, you were able to know which parts of the forest to not go to.

However, even despite that, fate decided to play with you.

Out of nowhere, you heard the growling of wolves, so you quickly picked up the bucket and decided to leave in the direction of the village. You hope that you can leave before the wolves take notice of you. But what you would have never expected was for one of the wolves to jump in front of you, forcing you to run in the other direction from the village.

If it was just one wolf, you could have killed it with some minor injuries on your side. However, that clearly wasn't the situation!

You cursed once again; what's with your fate with wolves?

You decided to take random turns around the forest in hopes of getting the wolves off your routes, but there were still no results. As long as you're out in the open, the wolves will always find you.

Therefore, you must find a hiding spot somewhere dark so that the sunlight won't expose your location to the creatures. Like a cave! You looked around for caves. If there aren't any results, you continue looking while keeping your distance from the wolves. With some effort, you found a cave, just in time before the wolves caught up to you.

Without hesitation, you hide inside the dark, gloomy cave. You heard the wolves coming near the location with their paws stepping onto tree branches and leaves, until their movement completely stopped. Did they find you? Were you going to die again? Die earlier than last time? You closed your eyes, silently praying to any entity above that could get you out of this sticky situation.

The wolves whimpered at something before they took their leaves.

You were in a spot in the cave where only some sunlight could peek in.

You opened your eyes, peaking from behind the boulder that's hiding your figure; the wolves were gone. Something must have scared them away. Whatever it is, you took that as a sign that the imaginary entity from above has answered your prayers.

"Oh well, time to get up." You accidentally stepped on a mechanism floor piece on the ground. "Fuck!"

The ground that you were expecting to open beneath you didn't; instead, a blue spiritual power formed around the small cave. It disappeared after finishing its job. The cave expanded larger than before. Originally, the cave wasn't large, but it was just enough for hiding from creatures.

You have two choices: go deeper into the cave or go out. You have nothing to lose, so you picked going deeper into the cave.

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Prayers that nothing will go wrong.