Returning Branches

These were miscellaneous pieces I wrote when I was thirteen or fourteen. I never expected them to pass the application review. Many years have passed since then. I've tried writing it again, but I can't recapture the feeling I had back then. I'm dissatisfied with everything I write, and it's all terrible. The pressure is too much. Besides, I'm really not good at plot-driven political intrigue. I don't want to give my protagonists an unsatisfying ending just to rush things, so I'm not going to continue it.

If I get inspiration and the chance later, I'll turn it into a free, short story of about ten thousand words. ovo

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The premise is a female lead who is a historian x a male lead who is a general.

Past and present lives. Here's the original first-person piece, combined with a lightly revised version of the later plot, for everyone to have a look:

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My name is Shen Zhi. I'm a historian.

I transmigrated while researching an ancient tomb that could not be excavated.

I've been here for over two months. I don't understand the language of this era very well, but I can just about make out that my parents are arranging a marriage for me.

My younger sister told me I have a fiance.

I don't know who he is. My sister only said that he went off to war.

My sister said his name is Wen Lan.

I remember now. Wen Lan was a famous general of the Great Liang dynasty who died young.

Not long afterward, Wen Lan won a battle, and my sister took me to meet him.

He spoke very gently, but he was wearing a bamboo hat, so I couldn't see his face.

My sister told me that Wen Lan used to speak coldly to me, but now it was as if he'd become a different person.

I know why. One day, the original owner of this body had suddenly changed her temperament. She had once said she would marry Wen Lan, then later defied an imperial decree and refused the match.

Just as I changed Wen Lan's fate of dying young, I suddenly fell into a coma.

In a dream, I learned that I had originally belonged to this world.

I was the primary consciousness of this body, as well as a strand of its emotional essence. But an accident had sent me to the modern world, causing the body's temperament to change drastically.

And that was why, in my previous life, I never returned. Instead, I joined forces with the Fourth Prince to poison Wen Lan and kill him.

Perhaps it was the ancient tomb complex that brought me back.

When I opened my eyes again, I saw Wen Lan keeping watch beside my bed.

This was a reunion promised by Heaven over a thousand years ago.

Theme: Protect peace