Synopsis of Jade Dumpling Spring
“Five years old and everyone’s darling, fought over by the whole world.”
In the thirteenth year of Yongchang, on a snowy Lantern Festival night, a glass lantern illuminated Chang’an.
Abandoned in the wind and snow, the swaddled Su Yutuan became the object of a struggle among four grandmasters.
The master physician of Medicine King Valley examined her shattered meridians and discovered a hidden mystery of immortality.
A female general from the frontier saw her for the first time, and an old wound healed without a single remedy.
A Jiangnan imperial merchant calculated every secret of heaven, yet could not divine her fate.
The mute swordsman’s broken blade shed a tear at her touch, revealing the shadow of a dragon.
“You’re fighting over power. She just wants a piece of candy.”
When she unconsciously recites a lost sword art on a moonless night, when she exposes an enemy spy’s plot by knocking into him with her bamboo hobbyhorse, and when the remnants of the former dynasty kneel and cry, “The princess has returned!”
Only then do the four guardians realize that this soft, cuddly little girl is the last key to a world in turmoil.
“The people of the realm fight over the throne. These men are fighting to be her dad.”
From a medicine grinder’s apprentice at Medicine King Valley to a military-strategy prodigy in the general’s manor;
from a master appraiser at the imperial merchant’s auction house to the sole inheritor of the Sword Pavilion’s lost techniques,
Su Yutuan trades candy pills for intelligence and traps assassins with kite strings, writing a legend of a child who sets the fate of the realm in the unrecorded corners of history.
“When she was twelve, she no longer wanted the kingdom.”
As the lights of ten thousand homes form a protective formation around her, and the four grandmasters sacrifice all their power for her safety,
the little heroine rises onto her tiptoes to wipe the blood from the adults’ faces and says just one thing:
“I want a hug. Let me see a little higher.”
“A million-word historical fantasy about everyone’s favorite little darling, the pinnacle of adorable power politics.”
✓ A real five-year-old’s logic breaks through crises, from ants moving house to break formations to decoding military intelligence through candy painting
✓ Four male leads
