[Famine escape, no romance] Tang Dou thought she would live a happy life despite her physical disability, surrounded by loving parents and a happy family. But on the day she turned eighteen, her own parents sent her to Crying Prison Mountain to die!
She had once fearfully imagined being abandoned because they could no longer afford her treatment and there was no hope of recovery.
She had even thought about ending her life, freeing herself and letting her parents off the hook so they could have an easier life.
She had told them outright that she wouldn't blame them in the slightest if they chose to stop caring for her.
But even her willingness to “go to her death” and all their careful arrangements couldn't outweigh their need to save face.
She was still thrown into the forbidden land of humanity, a paradise for plants and animals: Crying Prison Mountain!
A thousand insects devoured her flesh; ten thousand itches gnawed at her heart. Nothing could compare to the pain inside.
But she refused to accept it. What had she done wrong? Did being born ill mean she deserved to die, deserved to be betrayed?
All she had asked was for them to give their family bond a dignified ending! Was that wrong?
She refused to accept it!
After dodging wolves, tigers, leopards, snakes, poisonous insects, and ants, she finally returned to the place she came from. Just when she thought she could finally put the pain behind her, a bolt of lightning struck Tang Dou and sent her to the fictional Lin Yu Dynasty.
The moment she woke, her malicious aunt was making false accusations, and her wicked grandmother, whose heart was buried somewhere near her armpit, was about to beat her.
There was no way she was going to take a beating. Not in this life, or the next.
So Tang Dou raised her hoe and brought it down, spraying blood everywhere and sending the wicked old woman straight to her grave!
But snakes and rats are bound to nest together. Killing Grandma only brought an even more vicious uncle and grandfather...
See how Tang Dou deals with disasters and war as she flees famine, tackles one problem after another, and seeks peace of mind, until she can live freely with plenty of rice, food, and money.
