At seventeen, Lin Wanxing had been abducted and held by the Zhao family for five years. Her vocal cords were destroyed, her right eye was gouged out, and she became a “mute” everyone could bully. She was the “substitute” the Zhaos had bought to take calamities in place of their biological daughter, Zhao Yarou. Locked in the attic, she was worked like an ox and horse, and beaten and cursed as a matter of course.
Then one day, just as a red-hot fire poker was about to sear her, a dusty old bronze mirror in the attic suddenly glimmered. Her left eye could now understand animals, and a strange “eye” appeared in the palm of her left hand. When she touched an animal, she could see the truth through its eyes.
“That vase was smashed by Zhao Yarou herself. She even sprinkled rat poison in your porridge,” Grandpa Gray, the attic mouse, confessed as he munched on seeds.
“Zhao Laosi hid his gambling debt IOUs in the kang cavity, and Liu Cuihua secretly buried something in the vegetable cellar in the middle of the night.” The old yellow dog, Ah Huang, warned her, pawing at the ground.
“Help! She’s trying to smother me!” The neighbor’s parrot, Fugui, suddenly shrieked, mimicking Liu Cuihua’s screams from the day she had destroyed Lin Wanxing’s vocal cords...
Once a mute girl at everyone’s mercy, she now had an army of animals and an eye in her palm, and began a silent revenge. Evidence of poison, a human trafficking network, the lie that she was a substitute meant to take calamities... She would make this family pay blood for blood, and uncover the shocking secret behind the bronze mirror, one tied to her own origins!
Abuse the villains, rise to the top, and deliver some face-slapping: watch as the mute girl harnesses the power of all beasts to tear off the masks of hypocrites and reclaim the life that belongs to her!
