When will I be the queen

Chapter 493 Lies
In Er Ya's version, she was called into the car by Mu Niannian at the park entrance. Mu Niannian tried to jump out of the car to escape but failed. All three of them were then stuffed into the car, tied up, gagged, and taken to a scenic area. On the way, Mu Niannian woke up and kept crying. The traffickers thought she was too noisy, so they drugged her. Mu Niannian and she were also drugged. She remained in a daze, vaguely hearing the sound of a car door opening and closing. When she woke up again, the traffickers were in a car accident. Mu Niannian and Mu Niannian were no longer in the car, but Cai Cai had appeared. Afterwards, she managed to escape and reached the police station, where she met Cai Cai again.

In Mu Niannian's initial version, she believed the traffickers, got into the car, and had her phone and watch stolen. Realizing it wasn't the way home, she cried incessantly. Mu Niannian then mentioned there was another young girl, a minor celebrity, and suggested the traffickers pick her up so they could sell her for more money. The traffickers believed her and took advantage of Er Ya. Later, they were both drugged and lost consciousness. When she woke up again, she was in the hospital. The police had arrived.

In Cai Cai's version, she stood by the roadside, trying to flag down a car for help. Suddenly, a car stopped, and someone threw something wrapped in clothing onto the roadside. The person who threw it didn't see her initially, but Mu Niannian, who was sitting in the car and was conscious, immediately spotted Cai Cai and pointed her out to the person who threw the thing. Before Cai Cai could run away, she was taken into the car, along with the unconscious Er Ya. Just as the traffickers got a good look at her and were about to tie her up, Mu Niannian seized the opportunity to jump out of the other side of the car window and escape. The traffickers gave chase but couldn't catch her, so they tied Cai Cai up and drove away.

"The one who was thrown down was Mu Niannian, who died from suffocation due to a drug reaction and allergic reaction. That's the forensic doctor's confirmation. Mu Niannian initially lied, but because my words matched those of the human traffickers, she admitted that she was lying. She ran away, and after being rescued, she didn't call the police. She pretended to be sick and stayed in the hospital until the police found her. After lying several times, she finally confessed that she hadn't drunk the medicine; she had just held it in her mouth and spat it out. She said she didn't call the police because she thought we were all dead. She was scared."

Cai Cai was all too familiar with this kind of blame-shifting tactic. So when the police told her, she knew Mu Niannian was gone, and the body inside her was Mu Niannian's. But even as Mu Niannian's parents wept bitterly, Mu Niannian didn't even glance at them.
“I’m absolutely certain that Mu Niannian’s inner self is Mu Niannian,” Cai Cai emphasized again.

You've said it so many times, we all understand. Anyway, he's not a good person, he's a demon, okay?

The main point is that Cai Cai told the police the same thing: that Er Ya had been possessed by a ghost, and that Mu Niannian wasn't actually Mu Niannian, but rather Mu Niannian, and that the one who died was the real Mu Niannian, who had taken over Mu Niannian's body. When the police officers didn't believe her, she made them ask Mu Niannian questions about Mu Niannian, saying that if she couldn't answer, it meant she was possessed by a ghost. She also insisted on asking Er Ya, since Er Ya was also possessed by a ghost and definitely wouldn't be able to answer.

Only then did the Immortal Lord understand why Cai Jiaoyang and Feng Shilan had called him. At the time, the Immortal Lord was staying at the Taoist temple to film a movie. Feng Shilan also happened to be staying there, but had left earlier. He was still at the temple then, before he left.

So, "Ms. Feng and the others think you're possessed?" The immortal didn't say anything too harsh, because even if he heard it, if you were truly possessed by a ghost at the time, it would be Cai Cai.

"..." Cai Cai didn't want to mention it; it wasn't important, none of that mattered.

Oh, it's not exactly unimportant. "You came wearing a Taoist robe. To be honest, I thought the Black and White Impermanence had come to take me away. I got scared, so I pointed at you and said you were a human trafficker. I thought the police have strong yang energy, so if the police came, you wouldn't dare take me away." For so many years, Cai Cai had always felt guilty and intimidated in front of the Immortal Lord. It wasn't because she almost tricked him into saying he was a human trafficker; the real reason was that she never treated the Immortal Lord as a human being.
Tang Jinyi and Dai Sichen were both speechless. What are you confessing now? You might as well be a human trafficker.

The immortal lord was utterly speechless. "What are you afraid of now?"

"I'm not human either!" Cai Cai said, then corrected herself, "Oh, I'm not from this world, I'm from another world. In that world, I'm already dead." This earned her another bunch of speechless expressions. Cai Cai sighed, "This is so hard for me, nobody believes me when I tell the truth."
Okay, it's really hard to believe. If she didn't know that her mother in the other world was actually from this world and was her relative, she would probably think she was going crazy.

Speaking of which, "that human trafficker should have gone to the Taoist temple the most, he hauled a truckload of things that were neither human nor ghost." Hahaha, Cai Cai took it seriously and told the police this, it's so funny.

Of course, no one except her found it funny.

Cai Cai sighed, "I'm just too honest. I can't lie, so the more truthful I am, the more the police think I'm abnormal." Therefore, her words were basically not taken seriously. Looking back now, "At the time, I was single-mindedly focused on returning to my original world, which is why I said so much—it was all the truth. If I had known then that I couldn't go back, I definitely would have made up a better story to make Mu Niannian and Er Ya get punished."

Tang Jinyi nodded to Cai Cai, signaling her to stop. The family had given up trying to correct Cai Cai's outlandish opinions; they just listened to what the child said, whether they believed it or not was irrelevant. As long as the child was well, healthy, and in a good mood, that was enough.

As for outsiders, they are naturally not even as important as a single hair on one's own child.
She glanced at the Immortal Lord subtly. Come to think of it, this man hadn't expressed any opinion on Cai Cai's words back then.
What could the immortal lord say? At the time, being accused of being a child trafficker was the most surprising thing, the most shocking thing being that someone didn't recognize him. Later, he learned that the child was seriously injured and suspected of having serious mental problems. In the information age, however, no identity information could be found. A perfectly healthy child was treated like a wild man. Apart from leaving some money for the child as a good deed, he really didn't think much else.

If he had known this child would sit in front of him like this later, he should have made a scene then and there, letting her know that he could be unreasonable too.
What the Immortal Lord always regretted was that he was trampled underfoot and lost to Cai Cai from their very first meeting, which led to him being trampled underfoot by Cai Cai for so many years.
Dai Sijun glanced at the Immortal Lord's face and was very upset that Cai Cai was still bullying the Immortal Lord at this time. So she asked, "What happened next?"
Later, Cai Cai frowned, and things didn't go according to her plan.

Afterwards, Er Ya became Er Ya. Because of her abduction, she found her biological mother, Feng Zhaotong. Cai Cai thought that this possessed ghost shouldn't have Er Ya's memories and couldn't possibly recount what happened before her abduction. Er Ya did indeed claim to have suffered a concussion and was traumatized, so she couldn't clearly explain the abduction, but she clearly described her vague memories of her biological parents when she was two or three years old, such as what they ate, where they lived, and that her father's surname was Er. The police didn't pursue the matter further, only telling her to tell them if she remembered anything later.

Cai Cai remained fully conscious throughout. She knew perfectly well that she had truly died in her past life and had shrunk. At the time, she thought she had simply shrunk and become healthy, but was still in the world where her mother lived. So, after being rescued, she clearly and earnestly stated her mother Cai Xin's name, her own name Cai Cai, her home address, the hospital address, and her phone number. Naturally, the results were all negative; no such person or place could be found, and the numbers were all disconnected.

She became the most untrustworthy child.

It was because Cai Cai mentioned Cai Xin's name that Cai Jiaoyang, who stayed by Cai Cai's side to take care of her, realized that Cai Cai might be related to their Cai family. Previously, she had only thought the poor child resembled someone from the Cai family. This led to Cai Jiaoyang adding her blood bank information to the database when Cai Cai needed to find her biological parents. As a result, Cai Cai was verified to be related to Cai Jiaoyang, but because her biological parents couldn't be found, Cai Jiaoyang adopted Cai Cai according to regulations. After being tested with all members of the Cai family and having her family bloodline information compared, and after review by official agencies and departments, Cai Cai was officially registered in the Cai family and returned to the family.

“There were so many families who wanted to adopt Cai Cai back then,” Dai Sichen recalled. Her great-aunt suddenly brought home a child, saying that she was a lost child and that no one knew who her father was. Because Cai Cai was still on the missing children list at the time, she was treated like an orphan, which led to a lot of blood tests and adoption applications.

Cai Cai smiled slightly. Her mind wasn't on the matter at the time, but she did notice the chaos around her. Fortunately, her maternal grandparents and great-uncle were very protective of her. Oh, and the Immortal Lord also helped her find her relatives.
Er Ya's mother was someone the Immortal Lord sent to deliver a message to find her. "The Er Ya you're concerned about isn't Er Ya." Because in this world, in Cai Cai's timeline, the Er Ya she was in had already been accidentally killed by Mu Niannian. Then she went to another world, lived for less than eighteen years in that world, died, became a child, and returned to this world. Er Ya's inner self was now Er Ya. In other words, after she died as Er Ya, Er Ya transmigrated into the book or something, possessing Er Ya's body and becoming Er Ya.

Er Ya doesn't have Er Ya's memories, but she has the ability to see things from a God's-eye view or a reader's perspective. She knows Er Ya's background, her past, her life and death, and her parents.

So, Er Ya could explain many things in a way that was both unclear and clear. Crucially, she also had a recorded diary documenting her experiences as Er Ya, oppressed and bullied by the Mu family, her limited literacy yet unwavering resilience. She was a perfect victim—a frightened yet intelligent and strong child. The more Cai Cai spoke of her, the more believable she became. Incidentally, Mu Niannian also became believable, because like Er Ya, even without her original memories, she had a perspective, and with the protection of her victimhood and age, her words were verifiable and credible.

If Cai Cai's confident assertions that they were all ghosts and had no memories are simply childish talk, then it's all just childish nonsense.

Years ago, Cai Cai was quite angry when she thought about this, but then one day she suddenly realized—nothing is best, there should be no memories. This proves that they were indeed external possessors who took over Er Ya and Mu Niannian's bodies, but didn't devour their souls like in horror stories. In other words, although Er Ya and Mu Niannian no longer had bodies, they still had complete and intact selves and souls, and it's very likely that, like her, they went to another world, were reincarnated, and lived better lives.
Yes, before knowing about Er Ya's recorded diary, in Cai Cai's mind, she was no longer Er Ya. She was Er Ya 1.0, and the one possessed by Er Ya was Er Ya 2.0. They were completely different individuals, living in different timelines. Cai Cai believed that after she died as Er Ya, Er Ya lived for a while before being possessed by Er Ya. That's why she couldn't explain her relationship with Er Ya, but her family must have sensed something was amiss. They just gave up asking because they couldn't explain it, but they kept an eye on Er Ya.

What Cai Cai didn't know was that the Cai family had also examined Er Ya's blood. After confirming that she had no relation to the Cai Tang family, they also examined Cai Cai and Feng Zhaotong, and naturally found no relation there either. They breathed a sigh of relief and let go, which is why they didn't press Cai Cai for answers.

Ke'er Ya's recorded diary begins after her death. Only then did Cai Cai realize that after her death, Er Ya had been possessed by Ke'er Ya.

There was never a Yaya 2.0. She died completely.

After that, Cai Cai stopped hinting to her family that she had been Er Ya for a while. After all, her family was already very worried about her.
It can be said that Cai Cai and her family have silently and unanimously embarked on a two-way journey.

But the Immortal Lord was unaware of this. At that time, the Immortal Lord learned about the kidnapping from Cai Cai, and his first concern was for Er Ya. He even helped the police find Er Ya's family and led them to Feng Zhaotong. If Er Ya hadn't been so focused on finding her parents and unaware of the Immortal Lord's assistance, Cai Cai had no doubt that Er Ya would have taken the opportunity to cling to the Immortal Lord.

Cai Cai snorted. Er Ya wasn't illiterate. Even if her handwriting wasn't good, she could still write quite a few characters. There was no need to record herself writing in her diary. Even if she couldn't write some characters, she could use homophones; a misspelled word is still a word. Cai Cai wouldn't admit to being illiterate. Besides, it was she who received the Immortal Lord's care, not Er Ya!

This wasn't the first time the Immortal Lord had heard Cai Cai say this. Er Ya was Er Ya, and Er Ya was Er Ya. He knew that Cai Cai meant to say that Er Ya had also been possessed by a ghost, and that she wasn't the original Er Ya anymore. The Immortal Lord could just let such words slide; delving deeper would only make Cai Cai seem pitiful. But Er Ya and Er Ya were different; the Immortal Lord agreed with them.

In his memory, Er Ya, who bore the name Mu Niannian and huddled in a corner on set, meticulously writing and reciting her lines, was a bright-eyed girl, brimming with vitality, pure in spirit, cunning, and a little timid, yet overflowing with intelligence from the inside out. At first, the Immortal Lord was puzzled as to how such harsh and greedy parents could raise such a child. Later, he learned she was an adopted daughter. Out of a desire to cherish talent, he showed a bit of kindness; if he could help this child, that would be good. At that time, the Immortal Lord didn't know that Er Ya and Mu Niannian were two different people.
While waiting at the police station, he learned that Er Ya had been living under the name Mu Niannian all along. When Mu Niannian grew up, all the fruits of her labor, her entire life, would be dedicated to Mu Niannian, while she herself would be left with nothing, at best disfigured, at worst dying in an accident.
That's why the Immortal Lord intervened again, wanting to truly help Er Ya.

Upon learning that Er Ya had found her parents—a director father and a movie star mother—the Immortal Lord thought, "No wonder she's so talented and a great actress; it's all genetics." But later, when he saw Er Ya again, that lovely, spirited little girl had transformed into someone who constantly displayed terrible acting skills, with lifeless eyes, an ordinary demeanor, and not a trace of spirit.

The immortal lord immediately felt utterly bored.

"Who she is has nothing to do with me. I just did what any normal person would have done in that moment." The Immortal Lord knew Cai Cai disliked Er Ya and was still holding a grudge against him for helping Er Ya back then. Sigh, what a petty, vengeful brat.
Cai Cai snorted, not particularly pleased. She'd heard that Er Ya was a child with parents, but that was all she knew. She'd never considered what she would do if she were Er Ya and knew. Never. She was Cai Cai. Because she had always been Cai Cai.

Seeing Cai Cai humming "Immortal Lord" again, Dai Sichen was speechless. Why are you humming "Immortal Lord"? Really. He changed the subject again, "I remember Er Ya almost killed you. Didn't she admit it to the police back then?"

That's why we keep leading Er Ya into talking. Cai Cai knew that Er Ya would definitely lie and embellish her own story.
“She was unconscious the whole time. I woke up first, so I quietly untied my shoelaces and strangled the trafficker from behind,” Cai Cai said directly. “That’s why the trafficker crashed into the guardrail and passed out. But the car was about to slide down the mountain. The door was only on one side, so I opened the door, thinking I’d get Er Ya out first. But when I turned around, Er Ya pushed me out. I guess evil deeds always lead to one’s downfall. The car was already unstable, and she rolled out on her own.”

The immortal lord frowned. "So, she was actually awake the whole time?"

Cai Cai told the truth, "Although I don't know when she woke up, she still had the strength to push me, so she must have been awake for a while."

If that were all, Cai Cai wouldn't hate Er Ya so much. "I was pushed down and hit my head, so I couldn't move. Er Ya rolled down, and I was there to cushion her fall, so I was fine. I got up and ran away. She ran a few steps, then came back and took off all my clothes. She put her shirt on and threw her pants downstairs. If my grandma hadn't come, I would have either bled to death or frozen to death."

Oh, actually, my grandma came over because she saw my pants. It was a coincidence, God was protecting me, it was my grandma's destiny to find me.