Shen Qinghe wakes from the cold in a ruined temple and discovers she has been reborn in ancient times, during a famine.
Her five-year-old sister licks an empty bowl and says, "I'm not hungry." Her ten-year-old brother secretly swallows his saliva.
Their mother coughs until she can barely breathe, hiding a bloodstained handkerchief.
Shen Qinghe touches the only modern keepsake around her neck: a vacuum-sealed packet of hybrid rice seeds.
These miracle seeds, capable of yielding a thousand catties per mu, are her family’s last hope.
