After I Transmigrate to 1888 and Become a Black Witch

Zhang Sijie transmigrated to a foreign land. Instead of the overtime computer at her office desk, she now saw a shepherd girl's family preparing dinner ingredients.

Blackberry cake, little meat pies, jam biscuits, smoked salmon, and maple chocolates?

She'd never seen anything like them on Ele.me or Meituan. As a devoted foodie, her appetite was instantly awakened.

After looking into things, she discovered that the body's original owner was an Irish girl named Barbara, who had lived in Sligo, Ireland, in 1888 before her death. She was a freckle-faced girl with burgundy hair. Her family included her alcoholic, abusive father, Ryan Willis, and her mother Kate, a dairymaid. There were also all sorts of foreign neighbors who didn't speak Chinese: the island's Protestant priest and nun, an illiterate fisherman named Arman, and Martha, a tavern keeper who claimed to be descended from witches.

These locals were humorous and free-spirited, lively and vulgar. In Barbara's time, Celtic folk tales were an indispensable part of Irish culture.

To keep Barbara's mother from discovering that her only daughter was gone, Zhang Sijie stayed. At first, she struggled to adjust, but little by little she became part of Snow Mountain Goat Village.

Then one day, ghosts began taking people away. A poet from the city, Gulioki, was obsessed with attending occult gatherings, but eventually froze to death in his home, leaving behind a strange portrait of Raphael's angels.

Zhang Sijie, inside Barbara's body, suddenly gained a witch's magic: the ability to communicate with spirits and see visions. She also realized that she was in a Celtic rural mythology story. This wasn't a simple case of traveling through time and space. In other words, this world had fairies, elves, and all kinds of fantastical creatures.

Barbara also used magic to switch between all kinds of female secret identities.

With multiple identities, including Miss Haley, the librarian; Sophia, an apprentice coroner in black robes; and Arlina, a young maid in a noble household, she was able to investigate Ireland's mysterious supernatural cases in depth and complete an illustrated guide to the fae spanning a hundred years.

* The entire cast revolves around the transmigrated female lead.

* Multiple secret identities. The female lead is able to live forever by design. The story's timeline spans more than a hundred years, from 1888 to 1989.

Recommended song: "Es ist ein Schnee gefallen." It goes especially well with this story.

Dear readers, I'm Shi Touyang. I wanted to explain what's going on. I haven't been feeling well lately, so I wasn't able to finish this week's rankings for The Witch, and the story ended up on the blacklist.

Once I've had time to recover, updates will resume. If you've come across this note, feel free to bookmark the story and check back later.

P.S. I haven't started charging for The Witch yet. That's partly because I've poured some real-life feelings into this story.

I want to share something that moved me recently.

Zhang Zanying, who was unexpectedly interviewed on Thirteen Invitations before, has given another interview.

Watching her onstage, struggling to say that her life always seemed to fall just short, was heartbreaking. She had an abortion while waiting for a job opportunity, but the appointment never came. She went abroad to study and gained knowledge, but after returning home, her low professional title kept her from taking part in projects. She said that she had spent her life working with plants. There is a flower called the camellia. It is beautiful, but has one flaw: people say it has no fragrance. Maybe life can never be perfect.

I can only say that nobody who heard her would think she was content with how things turned out... There is no next life, but if there were...

It would be better to bloom as a camellia somewhere no one could see you than to be seen and then rejected because you have no fragrance. Yes, I suppose that's why The Witch exists in my little column.

Theme: Live well