What should I do if I lose my memory after transmigrating into a book?

Chapter 112 Transmigration or Rebirth?

"Hey sir, can I buy your clothes?"

Shen Xi stopped a waiter carrying a tray of wine. The young man was handsome and widened his eyes, seemingly surprised. But having worked in the manor for so many years, he knew that the guests here were not to be offended.

Some things are better left unasked about.

Moreover, their family's attitude towards this Miss Shen was quite unusual.

"Miss Shen, you're too kind. The extra uniforms we have are in the storage room. Please come with me."

The waiter spoke respectfully, bowing as he led Shen Xi to the storage room.

He said, "Wait a moment."

He strode inside and quickly found a women's outfit that was about the same size as Shen Xi's, then handed it to her.

Shen Xi squinted, her gaze slowly sweeping over the surrounding walls inch by inch.

Seeing this, the waiter understood and said, "Miss Shen, we have a special changing room for waiters here. There are absolutely no surveillance cameras there. Normally, no one except the old butler is allowed to enter. Today is the Shen family banquet, a special day, and the storage room is open to prevent any other problems. The surveillance footage of this corridor can only be accessed by our family; outsiders cannot get it."

Shen Xi nodded and thanked her, "Thank you, I'm sorry to have taken up your time. You can go back to what you're doing."

The waiter, flattered, quickly replied...

"It's what I should do."

After saying that, he was very perceptive and quickly left.

Shen Xi cautiously looked around the corridor, but found no one. She locked the door, took the black waiter's uniform, and went into the changing room.

She carefully took off her dress, put it away, and quickly left the large storage room.

Shen Xi touched her smooth chin, pondered for a moment, then took out her phone and made a call.

The call was answered immediately.

"Hello, boss lady!"

Shen Xi's lips twitched slightly.

To be honest, Jiang Po's voice is actually quite good.

"Okay, I'm fine. Jiang Po, I need to talk to you. Where did you take Shen Lu?"

Inside the Mercedes over there,

Jiang Po, with one hand on the steering wheel, was about to start the engine and drive off when he heard the phone call and immediately turned it off.

She's still with me. Are you looking for her?

Seeing someone approaching around the corner, Shen Xi turned her toes and immediately turned her back to walk in a different direction.

In the vast Shen family mansion, no one noticed this ordinary-looking waitress.

She lowered her voice, "Could you please take her outside the Shen family manor? I need to speak with her."

"Okay, I'll be right there."

Shen Xi had Jiang Po lead the person to a small road outside the Shen family manor.

She walked with her head down, her brows furrowed, through the bustling crowd. As she passed the marble table, she glanced up and casually picked up a small, thin knife for cutting steak.

Once they reached a secluded spot, she adjusted the brim of her hat and strode off quickly.

It was a pitch-black night, and not a single star could be seen in the sky.

Even so, the lights of the Shen Family Manor illuminated the surrounding area for miles.

Outside the manor,

Jiang Po got out of the car with a cigarette dangling from his mouth. He slowly opened the trunk, and the woman lying inside made two "uh-uh" sounds, shrinking back in fear.

Jiang Po showed no mercy to Zhang Zhaodi. He carried her, who looked half-dead, with one hand and strode to the location designated by Shen Xi.

He politely placed her on the ground.

Zhang Zhaodi was like a fish that had been on the verge of drying up on land and finally came into contact with water. Almost the moment she touched the ground, she scrambled to her feet and tried to run away.

Unfortunately, Jiang Po not only easily stopped her, but also tied her up effortlessly.

"Tsk, behave yourself."

He chuckled and looked at her with a sinister gaze.

"You know in your heart what to say and what not to say when you meet them. If you dare to speak rudely, our boss will not let you off the hook."

Zhang Zhaodi leaned against the tree and shivered.

She couldn't say a word.

Just before Jiang Po could lose control and was about to light the cigarette in his mouth.

Shen Xi has arrived.

In the pitch-black grove, Jiang Po lazily stood with his hands in his pockets, a cigarette dangling from his fingers, seemingly about to be lit. He looked at the cigarette, sighed, and sounded dejected.

"Don't come near here."

He didn't recognize Shen Xi.

"it's me."

Shen Xi took off her hat, revealing her large eyes, which met Jiang Po's eyes directly.

Jiang Po raised an eyebrow, and opened his mouth...

"No need to call me boss lady, just call me by my name or Miss Shen, whatever you prefer."

Shen Xi anticipated what he was about to say.

Jiang Po casually put the cigarette back in his pocket and smoothly changed his address, "Okay, Miss Shen."

"Jiang Po, you stay here, you don't need to come over."

Before Jiang Po could say anything, she hooked one arm around the rope binding Zhang Zhaodi and walked into the depths of the bushes.

"What are you trying to do?!"

Zhang Zhaodi finally spoke, her voice hoarse and strained as she struggled to speak.

Shen Xi ignored her and continued to drag her inside.

"Don't think you can kill me! I'm telling you, murder is illegal!!!"

Finally, Shen Xi stopped and let go of her hand.

"I'd really like to talk to you."

Shen Xi suddenly turned her head and smiled at Zhang Zhaodi, who was holding a thin silver knife in her hand.

Even at night, the bright light of the blade exuded a chilling aura.

Zhang Zhaodi immediately shut up. She stared intently at the knife in Shen Xi's hand, afraid that Shen Xi might lose her temper and cut her in the next second.

Shen Xi bent one leg and half-squatted opposite her, smiling kindly, "Can you tell me where you came from?"

If you ignore the silver knife she pressed against Zhang Zhaodi's face.

She looked even more amiable then.

Zhang Zhaodi shuddered, whether from the cold or from fright, and stammered as she spoke.

"What time travel? I don't know anything about that..."

Shen Xiping looked at her calmly, nodded seriously, and pulled the hilt of her knife out slightly. She said thoughtfully, "Oh, let me guess what you did before you transmigrated?"

"Oh, a beggar."

Although Shen Xi had a smile on her face, the smile didn't reach her eyes.

"You're saying a mere beggar could steal everything from me? Could it be you... a transmigrator? Or a reincarnated person?"

For every step Shen Xi took forward, Zhang Zhaodi took a step back.

Zhang Zhaodi turned her head away, gritting her teeth, and stubbornly denied it, "What nonsense are you talking about? I don't know anything."

Now she's all alone and helpless; she absolutely cannot accept this. Once that deity returns, Shen Xi will fall into her hands, and she'll be doomed!

Shen Xi nodded, showing no intention of pressuring her, and instead began to chat casually about other things.

"Mr. Shen from the Shen family gave me a ring, but I don't know what it's for. You've been with the Shen family for so many years, could you help me take a look?"

Shen Xi took out a ring from her pocket that wasn't even wrapped up. She did it casually, as easily as pulling out a piece of paper.

However, Zhang Zhaodi's eyes were glued to the ring, unmoving, as if she were possessed.

The next second, she screamed like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, her voice rising, "Ah! How dare you get this?! This belongs to the Shen family conglomerate, even Shen Ke couldn't get it, how dare you get it?!"

She suddenly stood up, and as if she had lost her mind, she jumped up and tried to crash into Shen Xi.

Shen Xi held the ring in her left hand and a thin knife in her right, holding it directly to Zhang Zhaodi's neck.

Shen Xi deliberately widened her eyes and exclaimed loudly, "Ah, could this be the legendary Shen Shi Consortium that controls half of Beijing's financial circle...?"

Her movements were carefully designed and affected, and she covered her mouth at just the right moment.

Is this really it?

This startled Zhang Zhaodi, who yelled, "What are you pretending for? You're just relying on those two heartless old men liking you! Without their affection, you're nothing! What good are you! You're just as worthless as me!!"

"The fact that so many people like me is my own achievement. I am who I am, and I will live a good life even without their support."

Seeing that she was suddenly angry, Shen Xi laughed even more heartily.

At this point, Shen Lu lost her most basic judgment and rationality.

Her voice was soft, her murmur carrying a hint of seduction, "Ah, I understand... you're a transmigrator, so... you're just like me."

Zhang Zhaodi caught the sound of those words, and her face, already flushed with anger, turned even redder. Ignoring her bound hands and feet, she stumbled to her feet, her dark, menacing eyes fixed on Shen Xi, her voice brimming with barely concealed excitement.

"You're a transmigrator from a book? You're actually a transmigrator? You're not the original Shen Xi?"

She shook her head, seemingly incredulous.

Zhang Zhaodi threw her head back and laughed, as if she had lost her mind. "Hahahaha, what goes around comes around! The real Shen Xi is really dead, dead!!! This is truly gratifying!!! Hahahaha!"

She laughed wildly, tears welling up in her eyes.

When she looked at Shen Xi again, there was no longer any jealousy or hatred in her eyes, but instead, a wild and unbridled joy.

Shen Xi laughed too. So this Shen Lu was a transmigrator. No wonder she always looked down on them from God's perspective—they were just paper dolls in her eyes.

I wonder if she comes from the same world as me?

Zhang Zhaodi suddenly paused. She moved step by step towards Shen Xi, her eyes wary, and craned her neck to speak to Shen Xi.

How can you prove you're a transmigrator?

She was quite cautious.

"Before I transmigrated here, the two largest tech companies in my world merged. That news was all over the place back then; you should know that. And there were also some cities from my era..."

Shen Xi hadn't finished speaking when Zhang Zhaodi's eyes darkened the next second.

How could Zhang Zhaodi know these things? How could someone who struggles to make ends meet pay attention to national news?

She had never even heard of the cities Shen Xi mentioned.

However, Shen Xi's description became more specific, including times and locations, which Zhang Zhaodi had no choice but to believe, even though she genuinely didn't know these places.

But judging from Shen Xi's confident and composed manner, it must be true.

She nodded with some skepticism.

Seeing that she had relaxed her guard, Shen Xi smiled even more. "I just heard some random people at the banquet saying that I am a daughter of the Shen family, but how could I deny such a good thing?"

Then, she changed the subject and began to sigh.

"I have no idea what the ending is for the protagonist in your book. I'm completely confused, and I'm even afraid that Shen Xi will really come back and take my place."

Shen Xi poured out her grievances, feigning sincerity, as if she were genuinely complaining. She silently observed Shen Lu's expression, noticing the almost complete trust in her eyes.

Shen Xi's mind raced; this was a sure thing.

"Shen Xi from that book..." Zhang Zhaodi recalled the book, and a sudden wave of disgust washed over her. She didn't want to think about it at all, and her brows furrowed in frustration.

"She's a disgusting person!!!"

what?

Shen Xi didn't understand. Logically speaking, the novel that Shen Lu had read should have a true story behind it.

The plot she saw back then was that after Jiang Ci married 'Shen Xi', Shen Xi hurt the female lead Bai Linlin. When Jiang Ci found out, he drowned Shen Xi in the river to avenge the female lead.

Shen Xi stood up straight, kicked her numb legs, and her mind was still filled with thoughts of the strange female protagonist Bai Linlin and this inexplicable transmigrator Shen Lu.

Could she roughly guess what exactly happened?

From Shen Lu's perspective, an omnipotent god helped her transmigrate into this novel world, changing her fate. This so-called god may very well be controlling the entire plot, so much so that Jiang Ci, as the male protagonist, is restricted in some things—things he can do but cannot say.

Shen Xi, the original female protagonist, had her fate changed by a transmigrator. She was abandoned in another world at birth, picked up by the headmistress, and began her own story.

A scene suddenly flashed into Shen Xi's mind that she had never wanted to face for countless days and nights.

The old woman who was the headmistress lay silently on the ground, wearing a worn-out floral dress stained with blood. Rain poured down on her face, and the sticky sweetness of the cake mixed with the smell of blood was nauseating. No one dared to approach her except her.

Her grandmother, the headmistress, had done many good deeds throughout her life, adopting so many children. Even during the most difficult time, she always thought of the hardships her fellow villagers had endured and never asked to borrow food. Yet, in the end, she met such a tragic end.

At this moment, however, she desperately wanted to meet that so-called god.

She wanted to know what role this so-called god played in her original world.

A dark glint flashed in Shen Xi's eyes. His dim eyes stared intently at the lush green grass around him, where white railings stretched out, enclosing all the towering trees.

Shen Xi thought,

She can't be controlled by others forever.

Absolutely not.

She's determined to get her hands on this so-called 'god'!

Shen Xi's eyes were filled with coldness. She came back to her senses and quietly looked at the woman who had taken her place in her fate.

The woman was undoubtedly happy; she was even humming a little tune.

Shen Xi had a difficult childhood, so she could guess a little about Shen Lu's living environment and background, because she could see the disgust in Shen Lu's eyes for the so-called original female protagonist, Shen Xi.

The two were complete strangers, living in worlds apart.

What grudge or hatred could there be?

This was the first time in both of Shen Xi's lives that she had directly faced the harm caused by jealousy.

She could even guess that some kind of personality flaw in Shen Lu made her resent Shen Xi in the book, to the point that her resentment was so great that she couldn't extricate herself.

That 'god' may have chosen her for that reason.