The Little Dumpling Holds the Red Thread and Saves a Family of Cannon Fodder

[Inner thoughts + golden finger + adorable child + understands animal speech]

After causing trouble one too many times, a lotus root spirit is kicked down to the mortal realm by the Matchmaker to undergo trials, and gets a golden finger to boot.

Overjoyed, she plans to sample every delicacy the mortal world has to offer, only to discover that her entire family is doomed to be cannon fodder. Not only are their love lives disastrous, they are all fated to die horribly.

She waves her chubby little hands about:

[Big brother, that woman isn’t the one who saved your life. She’ll get you killed without a body left behind. Your true match is that scarred guard.]

Big brother: ? A cripple and a disfigured woman?

[Second brother, your fiancée is having a wild time behind your back. She’ll join forces with a prince to frame you, poison you, and dump your body in the wilderness. Your true match is that tyrant.]

Second brother: A scholar and a shrew?

[Third brother, you’re clever all your life, but someone will set you up to fall in love with a man pretending to be a woman. You’ll lose your family fortune and die without a trace.]

Third brother: ? Little sister, I’m straight. I don’t like men!

[Fourth brother...]

Fourth brother: ...Little sister, stop playing matchmaker. I’m still young. I’m not getting married.

Sun Yaozhong glares with tiger eyes: How can my sons have such terrible taste? They’re making a complete fool of their old man!

[Father, stop glaring. Your adopted daughter loves you but can’t have you, so she’ll frame you for stolen goods and make you a notorious traitor. The Emperor will have you torn apart by five horses.]

[And I’ll be an orphan, dead before I turn three. They’ll whip my corpse day and night, then turn me into a human swine.]

The whole Sun family: “What? Our family destroyed, our line wiped out? We can’t let that happen. We’ll rebel!”

In the end, everyone in the Sun family finds a happy match and becomes an exceptional talent.

And the lotus root spirit gets to sample every delicacy, play matchmaker, and become a famous little...