Chapter 1: The First Hunt

  Jiang Yaluo looked at the steaming hot dishes on the table, and really didn't have an ounce of appetite. She picked up a potato strip and put it in her mouth, chewing it like wax. She simply put down her chopsticks, blinked her eyes, and said pitifully: "Mom, I don't want to eat, dinner is so unappetizing!"

  This has been going on for three days in a row. Xu Abi viciously clamped down several pieces of pork with her chopsticks and put them into her bowl, saying fiercely: "Eat it! If you don't want to eat rice, what do you want to eat?!"

  What does she want to eat? She doesn't know either.

  Although she was still forced to eat a lot by her mother, she still felt hungry and had a strong desire inside her that slowly invaded her brain, making her more and more eager to eat something delicious. But what is delicious?

  Jiang Yaluo lay on the bed, pouting and staring at the ceiling, with all sorts of food jumping around happily in her mind, striking various poses as if they were competing in a beauty pageant, gazing at her with pleading eyes, seemingly saying "Choose me, choose me."

  She picked for half a day and finally shook her index finger, "You're not delicious, none of you are delicious!"

  Until Xu Abi walked in and sat down beside her bed, ready to start telling her "bedtime stories" again. They were all some interesting things that Jiang Yaluo did when she was a child, perhaps this could help her recover her memory.

  "Mom, what kind of person was I before?" Jiang Yaluo finally flipped over and lay on the pillow, looking up with her 13-year-old loli face, a pair of black eyes filled with curiosity. She knew she wasn't really Jiang Yaluo, she firmly believed that she must have been reborn or crossed over! Although she had also forgotten what she was like before crossing over.

  Xu Abi gently stroked her daughter's hair, her eyes fixed on the headboard as she sank into deep thought. She was torn about whether to tell the truth or not. Telling the truth might help her recover her memories, but what if she reverted back to her previous wooden and dull self?

  She thought of her daughter from before and looked at Yaluo now, suddenly making a pleasant decision: let her stay as she is!

  She thought for a while before saying in a nagging tone: "You used to be an outgoing and lively kid, you loved studying, exercising, living, and your parents..."

  Jiang Yaluo furrowed her small brow, a hint of skepticism on her face: "Was I really that good before?"

  Xu Abi laughed and said: "Cough, cough, don't mention the past, just maintain the status quo for me, no matter what you look like, after all, you are my daughter. The past is not that important, what's important is now and the future!"

  "The past doesn't matter, but it's always being mentioned in my ear...” Jiang Yaluo muttered to herself, and suddenly thought that the daughter in her mother's eyes was originally so good, but she herself had never been the real thing. Shouldn't she confess something to her? She had already taken over this girl's body, so shouldn't she stop taking her mother's love too?

  "Mom, if one day... uh, I died, but didn't really die, and someone else ran into this body to impersonate me, what would you do?" Jiang Yaluo said with difficulty, nervously looking at her mom's expression. "Did you understand?"

  The old mother stroked her hand for a moment, and immediately came back to herself, saying lightly: "What's the difference? This body of yours is from my own body, and I'm the one who raised you, but who lives inside it isn't up to me to decide. So!" Then she changed to an extremely fierce expression, "No matter who you are, don't think about running away with my daughter's body!"

  Jiang Yaluo was startled and shivered, then reacted immediately, happily hugging her neck, "Great! I'm Mom's daughter, always by Mom's side!"

  The ultimate ownership of this body is not Jiang Yalü herself, but the one who gave birth to her. Jiang Yalü was at peace. She wasn't fighting for someone else's love; she wanted to stay and truly love the person who had given her a place to reside in this body.

  She buried her face in her mother's hair, but when she smelled a strange fragrance, her brain was excited like a chicken blood. She opened Xu Abi's hair and her smooth neck came out. In Jiang Yalü's eyes, that layer of skin seemed to have become transparent, so that she could only see a greenish-blue vein.

  "Gulp", Jiang Yaluo swallowed down the saliva that suddenly emerged, and the desire that was just suppressed rushed up again.

  "Mom, I'm so sleepy, I want to go to bed." She suddenly pushed Xu Abi away, herself fell onto the bed, buried her face in the pillow and said in a muffled voice.

  As soon as she heard her mother leave the room, Jiang Yaluo immediately jumped up from bed, walked barefoot to the door and locked it. In the blink of an eye, there was no sign of her in the house. The light blue floral curtains were still fluttering, but Jiang Yaluo had already appeared on a certain street one kilometer away from home. She didn't know why she was so fast, she just suddenly knew what she really wanted.

  This street is lined with rows of ginkgo trees, tall and dense, seemingly never pruned. The branches stretch over the street, blocking out the light from outside, the streetlights are dim and hidden in the shade, and every now and then there's one or two that are almost broken, flickering on and off in the shadows. One side of the street is a park, and the other side is a river that flows along the street. On such a secluded road, on summer afternoons, many people come here to set up small tents to enjoy the cool breeze, but when the last ray of sunlight disappears, they disperse, and even passersby are scarce. Unless it's couples who like to choose secluded spots for secret trysts.

  And now walking on this road are two people who are still entangled in a stalemate, judging from their appearance... um, they don't seem to be in a romantic relationship...

  Silently approaching, Jiang Yaluo only saw clearly that it was a drunken man beating up a beggar, cursing and scolding while hitting, the beggar endured no longer and also fought back, so the two quickly became entangled in a fierce fight.

  The two of them were attacking each other in perfect rhythm, one punch and one kick at a time, neither of them noticing the little loli standing less than two meters away from them, already drooling with desire.

  The smell of fresh blood seeped into the air, "Wow! It's delicious!" Jiang Yaluo excitedly closed her eyes and took a deep breath, unable to help but cheer, this smell was just too enticing!!

  "Ahhh~!" A long, loud howl rose to the sky, two pearly white canine teeth gleaming like unsheathed swords. "I'm going to eat meat now!!" A certain loli's hands curled up to her chest in a claw-like shape, her eyes shining with golden light as she stared at the two rolling on the ground, excitement overflowing.

  But which one should I bite first? She looked around and said, "This one just drank wine, the blood must not be good to drink! ...Hmm, this one is too dirty!"

  ……

  "Alcohol is just alcohol, at least it's better than having a mouthful of mud!"

  ……

  "It's better to be a beggar, the first time must ensure the taste."

  ……

  Oh my, choosing is the most annoying thing! Jiang Yaluo sat cross-legged on the ground one meter away from the two, furrowed her brow and thought for a long time. She picked up a tree branch and pointed it at the two of them, going back and forth: "Pointing soldiers, lining up to stand guard, riding bamboo horses and carrying wooden guns, let's make a small soldier the captain!"

  Beggar!

  "Alas!" Let beggars be beggars, it's fate.

  She finally made up her mind and stood up beside the two. Xiao Luoli, who was only a little over 1.6 meters tall, somehow had an air of superiority about her.