Qin Xixi was feeling rather down. She had been a little magpie from the immortal realm, but by accident, she transmigrated into the body of a little baby girl born to a young widow. Her little mouth never stopped chattering, giving the neighbors a headache every day.
To protect her daughter from gossip, her tough-as-nails mother, Liu Siyue, gritted her teeth and agreed to a marriage meant to bring good fortune with Qin Wenyuan, the Great General Who Pacified the West.
The whole capital scoffed: “One’s a little chatterbox demon, the other a widow with a child in tow. Does she really think it’s that easy to cross the threshold of the General’s Manor? She’ll be thrown out within three months!”
But no one expected the General’s Manor to take a dramatic turn
The iron-willed old master slammed the table and roared, “Deliver my military order! Everyone in this household is to spoil this little girl rotten! Anyone who neglects her will get the army stick!”
Her six older cousins scrambled to claim her: “Hold on tight, little sister! Big Brother will take you horseback riding!”
“Move aside! You want to see acrobatics? Third Brother will make a human ladder for you!”
“Fifth Brother just got a new slingshot. Come on, let’s go shoot some birds!”
Her stern-faced general father, Qin Wenyuan, stiffly pulled out a handful of malt candy and put it in the little girl’s hands. “Here, call me Daddy. Whatever you like in the storeroom, I’ll have it brought to you.”
Even more astonishingly, after the little magpie settled in, good news kept pouring in from the General’s Manor:
The eldest uncle got promoted! The second uncle struck it rich! And the third uncle, who had been childless for years, welcomed twins, a boy and a girl!
The old master held the giggling Qin Xixi in his arms, his beard practically pointing at the sky. “What bad luck? This is clearly our Qin family’s precious gift from heaven, our little lucky star! Good fortune has arrived!”
