Across five thousand years of Chinese history, beneath clear skies and in peaceful times, we are all good young people who live under the Party's protection!
Amid the shifting tides of history, I used to be just one ordinary person.
As someone born in the 21st century and raised on progressive values, I grew up in a loving family, happy and carefree!
But my happy childhood changed beyond recognition after my younger brother, Shen Bo, was born! Because of him, I saw a different world and encountered all sorts of things I had never seen before!
From books passed down through the generations, I learned that our little family was actually descended from a family of fortune-tellers that had existed for a thousand years. But back then, they had defied the laws of heaven with their divinations and were punished: no male heirs would ever be born to carry on the family line!
As a result, the Shen family dwindled in number. Not only were there no boys, but there were very few girls, too!
Fortunately, our bloodline survived. Then, in my mother's generation, after every kind of medical intervention to protect her pregnancy, she unexpectedly gave birth to a boy!
But no one could have guessed that he would be born different, with an incomplete soul. From the day he was born, I, his full sister, began a path of ceaseless study and accumulating merit!
Before his death, an ancestral fortune-teller divined the fate of his descendants: if a boy were ever born, his full siblings would accumulate the power of merit to help the Shen family escape this heavenly punishment!
As the 798th generation of the Shen family, I have taken on this mission with pride and resignation.
And so begins the redemption of my family, my brother, myself, and our clan!
