A century-old drought, a life and death escape.
Sixteen-year-old Shen Sui'er never thought that a drought would cause her hometown to lose its harvest. Wells dried up, fields cracked, and people died of hunger everywhere. In order to survive, she had to embark on a road of escape with her parents, young brother and elderly grandmother.
There is no golden finger, no savior, only the most real struggle for survival.
Along the way, hunger, disease, flash floods, wolves, bandits... Every disaster tests the bottom line of human nature. The death of her grandmother, the shortage of food, and the calculations of strangers made Suier struggle in despair again and again. Until she met Cheng Shi, a young man who was also on the run - an orphan who knew herbal medicine and could hunt. The two depended on each other for life, looking for a glimmer of hope in troubled times.
They traveled over mountains and ridges just to find a piece of land where they could survive.
From the cracked plains to the desolate mountains, from the dry riverbed to the mud after heavy rains, Sui'er and Cheng Shi led the remaining family members to find hope in desperate situations. They have encountered kind charity and ruthless plunder; they have argued over a mouthful of food, and they have hugged each other for warmth due to a heavy rain.
This is an epic about survival, resilience and glimmers of light.
