When you’re down on your luck, even a sip of cold water can make you choke.
Feng Liu was just walking along when she somehow ended up in a mountain ravine, where she met a fortune-teller who spouted nonsense all day long.
She and the old man began living in the ravine. Every day, either he scolded her or ran her ragged for fun. Finally, she snapped: “Old man, when can I leave?”
The old man said, “Soon, soon.”
In the end, Feng Liu spent a whole year in the ravine.
One day, the old man brought back a man and told her, “This is the Night King. He’s here to take you back to the palace.”
At that moment, she was so stunned it felt like she’d been struck by lightning.
In the end, she accepted her fate and returned to the palace, where she picked up a bargain of a father and somehow got herself married.
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