Tales of Qingxi

Lin Wanxing, a socially anxious all-around farm girl, wakes up in the body of Su Yunqing, a concubine-born daughter of the prefect of Qingzhou. She comes with a magical space containing fertile fields, a library, and a computer. She planned to lie flat, but then she discovers that her legal mother is going to sell her as a concubine. She gathers up the family’s valuables and fakes her death by jumping into a river in the middle of the night.

When she wakes up, Shen Yan has rescued her and brought her to Qingxi Village. Newly freed from slavery, Shen Yan has five taels of silver and only wants to pay for his father’s treatment and find a wife to warm his bed. Instead, he brings home Lin Wanxing, who says she wants to spend her life with him.

Their thatched hut leaks, and his father is frail and needs medicine. Lin Wanxing rolls up her sleeves and gets to work: her space has food and medicine, and with her own two hands she can create a paradise.

And so the Shen family’s home in Qingxi Village is transformed: a barren slope becomes a vegetable garden, roses climb over the thatched cottage, and the bookshop eagerly awaits each new installment of Dream of the Red Chamber, now sitting on the shelves in the west wing.

Every day, Shen Yan comes home to find her copying books beneath the peach tree, with the scent of cooking drifting from the stove.

There are no power struggles here, only the simple warmth of home: she grows a garden full of fresh vegetables, while he chops wood and weaves baskets to make a steady living. She earns money by copying popular stories, and together they turn their rundown hut into a little courtyard house with gray brick walls.

The best paradise isn’t the beautiful scenery inside a magical space. It’s having him by her side and a home before her eyes, as each day simmers into sweetness, one bowl of porridge and one meal at a time.