A thousand years had passed since they immigrated to Earth. If he could activate the bloodline within him, then she could too. But after two years of searching, where could she be? Jiang Zhilin bit her lip in contemplation.
The thought of the secret formation they had activated back then filled her with frustration. Why should the royal family always dominate everyone's fate? They acted recklessly, doing as they pleased, without ever considering the thoughts of others. Did anyone ask if we were willing?
The disaster that struck back then claimed many lives, but it was understandable; they had just arrived on Earth and were unfamiliar with everything here. Panic in an unfamiliar environment was natural, and feeling self-pity after being exiled was also understandable. Hatred for their abandoned home planet was comprehensible, as was the confusion and doubt about the future. However, having all these emotions did not mean everyone had to completely sever ties with their bloodline. Just because a family was flawed did not mean one should abandon it entirely.
When everyone became sacrifices to that shocking energy transformation, forced to lose the signature trait of the Ramian—the Longtail—everyone cried out in despair. When Jiang Zhilin awoke to find her Longtail gone, she felt as though she had lost the most important thing in her life. The despair was indescribable; the feeling of faith collapsing was something she believed she would never forget.
The Longtail embodied the most crucial energy of the Ramian, and it was this energy that made their physical structure incompatible with Earth's magnetic field. Long-Tailed Su Ruolan managed to survive by severing her tail; this determination saved these interstellar immigrants, but not everyone could appreciate this goodwill.
Jiang Zhilin always considered herself a true noble, even after their fall from grace. She took pride in her Longtail—its length, its color, its power—because it connected her to her ancestors' glory and the pride within her bloodline. Yet all of this was so easily destroyed.
When her Longtail vanished like everyone else's, replaced by two smooth legs that were no taller than anyone else's and weak in strength, she found herself at a loss on how to face life. No one knew how she overcame her inner feelings of inferiority and anxiety to work alongside those commoners she once looked down upon—eating together, sleeping together—turning her delicate skin rough and dragging her noble life into the dust. Especially when encountering those strange creatures on Earth, she often found herself fleeing in embarrassment, struggling for survival. If given a choice, she would have preferred not to have undergone that fateful change and instead retained her Longtail, dying honorably like a hero.
As she lay on the ground, despairing and preparing for death, an ancestral treasure offered her a final chance. She almost greedily and unhesitatingly gave everything she had for a shot at redemption; home was hard to leave behind. She wanted to set right the chaotic history; she wanted to go back—she wanted to go home.
All opportunities lay ahead after a millennium. Perhaps due to her intense obsession or perhaps because of that treasure, she found that in every lifetime there was a chance to regain memories. She had been preparing all along, accumulating wealth and searching for the reincarnations of those few people each time. As long as they could gather again and reenact their pasts, everything could return to how it once was.
Unfortunately, luck was not on her side; in every lifetime, she failed to encounter all those individuals—especially Su Ruolan; she had never met her even once. Others had crossed paths by chance but none awakened their memories, which left Jiang Zhilin deeply disappointed. In waiting, she grew restless and lost; in waiting, she became profound. Finally, in this lifetime, she witnessed that anomaly again: human genes were mutating once more, mirroring the circumstances from a thousand years ago. This time, she would not miss out!
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