The day her kingdom fell, Princess Lin Qingyao and her knight, mage, and 123 subjects were transported to a place she could not begin to understand.
Not a magical kingdom. Not a world of swords and sorcery.
It was urban China in 2024.
No ID cards, no household registration, not a trace that they had ever existed.
She learned to carry plates, knead dough, and make steamed buns.
Her knight captain took a construction job hauling bricks, earning 300 yuan a day.
Her mage played games at an internet cafe, earning fifteen yuan per boosting order.
Her palace steward opened a gold shop in an urban village, melting down imperial coins to sell as earrings.
They were buried in debt. They got swindled with counterfeit bills. The “Anomaly Investigation Bureau” began secretly investigating them.
Pursuers from another world were closing in.
But a month later, people were calling her steamed buns “Little Lin’s Buns.”
Her knight had earned a safety officer certificate.
Her gold shop received its first custom order: a gold seal engraved with the character for “peace.”
She wasn’t from this world. But she was becoming one of its people.
A survival story about transmigration in the opposite direction. About how to redefine “home” after losing everything.
