[Period Setting + Unhinged Fiction + Metaphysics and Good Fortune + Childhood Sweethearts]
A fortune-teller says he was born under a “greatly inauspicious” star.
He has a hard fate and brings misfortune to his family and wife.
At birth, his aunt switches him with another child. He is abused and nearly drowned.
At three, human traffickers sell him to the Peng family as a “boy to bring good luck.”
When he arrives at the Peng household, he somehow “cures” the young lady’s madness.
Overnight, he becomes a much-coveted lucky charm.
The young lady, who had been out of her mind, tells him:
“If anyone picks on you, go crazy. Cry as hard as you can and make a scene until they’re scared of you and won’t dare mess with you.”
He blinks, then cries and makes a fuss, leaving the Lin family, who had casually called him a “country bumpkin,” at a loss.
From then on, there’s no stopping him...
His antics make the second aunt, who wanted to adopt him, drop the idea and have triplets of her own.
He cries and makes a fuss until the whole family stays by his side, conveniently helping them avoid disaster.
With a series of “madcap” moves, he helps them resist a virus sweeping the region and escape illness, then averts an earthquake before it strikes and keeps the area safe...
By a stroke of fate, the Peng family discovers a record in an ancestral embroidery manual: “A sacred child shall descend into the world, bearing a golden light. They can calm spirits and dispel disaster. Protect them with their ‘true nature’; their apparent madness is their genuine self.”
Lingbao may seem “mad,” but he is clear-minded and fiercely protective of those he loves. Kindness and divine power lie at his core, and auspicious fortune follows him wherever he goes. Unwittingly, he averts disasters and dispels calamities, leaving behind the legend of “the mad little Lingbao, blessed protector of Rongcheng.”
Such a beautiful book, highly recommended, I really like Xiao Lingbao