A Legendary Family: Beginning in an Ordinary World

The eldest son stays home to hold down the fort; the second son changes his fate.

In the countryside, second-born boys in large families all have one thing in common: more than ninety percent of them are different from their fathers and older brothers, as if they were born to carve out a whole new path for their family.

Between the brothers Shaoan and Shaoping, who are six years apart, there was another boy, Shaoze. His name means gentle and enriching, and brings to mind blessings that endure for generations. Because of Sun Shaoze, the ordinary world was never ordinary again…