During a famine, Su Hua supports her family by selling paintings and calligraphy. She even gives up her own food to help her fiancé study for the imperial examinations, only to nearly be framed and killed when the heartless man betrays her to curry favor with the powerful.
After she is rescued, starving Su Hua uses an old brush to “draw” a flatbread, and it actually fills her stomach! With a light touch of her magical brush, moldy rice becomes fresh, and bad seeds become good ones. The brush can “bring paintings to life” and “turn paper into gold.”
She uses it to feed her whole family, help them turn their lives around, and tear apart the ungrateful traitors to avenge herself. Then she leads the entire village in reclaiming land, taking them from famine-stricken wasteland to a land of abundant harvests...
