[A modern plus-size Chinese medicine practitioner + a handsome ancient-era palace graduate + a connection between past and present + online shopping + natural and man-made disasters + fleeing famine and farming]
Bai Zhier inherits a handkerchief from her grandmother and discovers something strange: anything placed on it disappears.
The palace graduate returns home in glory, only to be caught in a flood. His whole family is trapped on the roof for a day and a night, with the old and young going without food or water.
The surviving refugees who escape face harsh conditions, scarce food, and a desperate lack of medicine.
On his way to take up his post, he repeatedly encounters typhoons, bandits, and other dangers.
After joining the Hanlin Academy, he is in the capital when an earthquake strikes. Once posted to the provinces, he faces droughts and locust plagues one after another.
By a fortunate coincidence, he obtains a handkerchief and relies on it to escape danger at every turn, eventually rising to the highest ministerial office.
Bai Zhier uses the handkerchief to see the palace graduate’s requests.
From snacks, fruit, medicine, and drinks to pots, bowls, food, and milk tea, she shops nonstop.
If he gets sick, she has all the Xiao Chai Hu granules he needs.
If he runs into criminals, she sends him off with pepper spray and a stun baton.
To help the palace graduate, she is willing to slim down, becoming a graceful beauty as slender as a willow in the breeze.
The palace graduate presents her with a Qingtian seal, tiger bones, rhino horn, spices, jewelry...
Yet when he looks again at the kindhearted beauty with her round face and smiling eyes, he sees her growing haggard from helping him, and his heart aches as if cut by a knife...
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