Across The Stars

Chapter 2: Birth

Chapter 2 Birth

Pain! All I could feel is pain. How could I feel pain? Didn't I die? I can feel again? A small girl lay in an old tattered bed moaning in pain. After fluttering her honey eyes opened and looking around she discovered she was in some run down shed. No, upon closer inspection it was a room?

It was only four walls with a floor bed and a small table along with a rugged tea set and pit in the corner. Was this a house?? It looked like people truly lived in this shack.

Laying her head back down calmly she closes her eyes and takes a deep breath, exhaling she opens her eyes again and smiles, I'm alive. Laying content in this almost forgotten sensation of pain she thinks of how she enjoyed gaining strength in space, but the main thing she missed was the feeling of being alive and communicating with others.

Not hearing anyone around she sit up in the bed in pain, all she knows is that she was previously traveling but now shes in a weak body. Still confused she lifts her hand to whip the sweaty hair from her face but then stares at her hand in shock! Her hand looks like a tiny baby hand. After observing her body she realize the body was that of a toddler. Thinking to here, the last thing she remembers was that she was floating in the void, but then suddenly slurped into some unknown place, was that the sensation of rebirth?

From her past she used to secretly read fictional novels so she was a bit familiar with these stories. But don't people forget this kind of thing after rebirth? Maybe she was instead transmigrated? Plus it wasn't like she could really remember who she was before her death, mostly she remembers all that endless time in the space absorbing stars.

After thinking all this she sat there shocked over the fact that she was in a body, and a baby at that! Because there were no mirrors she couldn't see herself but she noticed the long thick black hair that looks like its never been brushed. Also, her body was thin, pale, and looked sickly. She had another shock, why her new blessing of a body malnourished? Where was her family? This body was only skin and bones. Who would treat a baby like this?!

Suddenly she get a headache and memories that shes never had before are unlocked. Her body, losing its energy falls to the side of the bed.

Through these new memories this baby's name is Zhou Yi Min. She is from the flourishing Zhou Clan, one of top family in steel production in the North. More than 80% of the family members are earth attributes and have the ability to dig into the earth finding the best minerals to sell or make use in weaponry. The other 20% are either helping manage the clan or they are considered trash. This baby was also a trash. She wasn't even treated this way because she was tested bad, but because the Zhou family wanted to suppress hers.

YiMin was born from the direct line in the family. But why is she sick in a run down room by herself? Well that's because YiMin's father, the eldest young master who was planned to take over the family, died when YiMin was 1. And his brother, YiMin's uncle, was finally able to take over the family from his other brothers few years later. After that he pushed his brothers family out of the main residence.

The family of three was then moved to a shack in the outskirts of the Zhou residence. Without any support from the family Ye Mo Sha, YiMin's mother, got sick within months of trying to take care of her two children, the sickness and also the heartbreak over losing her true love caused her to collapse. For the 3 year old YiMin and 5 year old YiHan that was the true change for the now family of two.

YiHan, who had determination to raise his sister, struggled daily to feeding two people while still reminiscing on the past and the happiness he once had. Without receiving help from the new main family YiHan had to sneak out of the main residence to either beg for money, steal, or even gathering in the forest, whatever helped his family. But two young children could not live this way for long, and soon YiMin gets sick. Her brother scrambled day and night for 2 days thinking of a way to buy medicine for her. BUT unfortunately on the second day he was out little YiMin died and I took over her body.

The original YiMin's last memory was waiting for her brother in bed remembering his words. "Min-Min, wait for brother, big brother will defiantly save you!!"

Wow, what a sad life. Just thinking about how this little girl died alone and in pain saddened me to the core. Remembering that in a lot of the novels she read in her last life, the people would always try and fulfill the wish of the original but her original was a baby who only knew how to wait for her big brother. What was she supposed to fulfill? Getting revenge on the family? Screw that, she's  only a baby! Though maybe in the future.

Well, whatever. This is her second chance at life, she is now Zhou Yi Min and she will live the life she couldn't have before.

Looking out the window it look like it was the evening. She struggled to get up and weakly crawled out of bed and to the window. Looking out she was shocked, although the shack was shabby the flourishing landscape made up for the lousy house that was hidden in wild grass. There was green bush everywhere and the sun blared it's afternoon shine on all living things. The trees were huge, it would take 3 adults to just to wrap around one, and that was one of the smaller trees! Yimin was always a nature child so she immediately prepared to go out and look for water since the room had none.

After re-wrapping her old tattered robe and slipping on the hand made cloth slippers made by the original's mother she was ready to go.

Walking out of the shack she could see that the small shack had a gate that snaked around the house in an rectangle shape. Parts of the gate we're leaning outward and about to topple over obviously needing repair. Behind the shack was a 5x5 smaller shack. Out of curiosity she walk towards the shack but begin to smell feces so she did a complete U-turn, instead walking to the front of the old residence where a broken fountain stood. Standing on her toes YiMin stretches to look inside, only to see dust and moss no water. Pouting she keep looking.

Walking a full circle around the small courtyard YiMin could then see the main gate. Through the previous's memories she knew that the road leads to the main branch. YiHan used to run to the main branch often when their mother got sick, almost daily, but the servants never let him in. Even if she chose to go there to ask for help she doesn't think any of the Zhou's would help her. How the original was treated made YiMin's hand itch to discipline these people.

Back in her past life she she remembered how she lived a strict punctual fun sucking life. All her family members were expected to followed the family code to death. So seeing how these people can abandon there own descendants, weak or strong, disgusted her. Walking along the gate lost in thought YiMin sees a small hidden hole at the bottom of the back gate behind the outhouse.

Yimin stand there for a time, contemplating on whether she should go out and explore the forest behind the courtyard or wait for this brother to return.

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