From the Start, All I Had Was a Cage: A Lone Star Shining Over the Wildfire

[Hardcore survival in Republican-era China: From the start, she’s in a bamboo cage, a white lotus on the surface and a bulldozer at heart!]

Top materials scientist Shen Xinglan opens her eyes to find herself trapped in a bamboo cage, about to be drowned in a pond! Her crimes: being an ill-fated star and committing adultery.

On the surface, she’s a weak, helpless, teary-eyed drama queen. Inside, she’s a cool-headed, ruthless modern mind with overwhelming intelligence.

After escaping the beginner village, she builds a pharmaceutical business in Shanghai’s shantytowns, becoming the compassionate “Madam Panlong.” She secretly develops military technology, becoming the mysterious technical genius “Mr. Chenxing.” And when she takes up her pen to discuss the state of the world, she becomes the incisive voice of public opinion known as “Wildfire.”

Watch the heroine juggle multiple secret identities, use scientific knowledge to crush feudal superstition, and outsmart every villain with her next-level intelligence.

The Lone Star Illuminates the Wildfire:

Your drowning cage is my beginner village!

The lone star is not alone; the wildfire will sweep across the land.