A little princess, nearly overcome by the heat, tumbles into a “fairyland” with cool breezes. Then she discovers that the person in charge is a rural teacher eating instant noodles while grading papers.
On the hottest summer night of Zhenguan Year Ten, frail Princess Jinyang, Li Mingda, clutches a jade pendant and sleepily makes a wish: “Please grant me a place where I never sweat...”
The next second, she and her embroidered daybed “thump” into the twenty-first century.
A young man named Li Zhao frantically hides his cup of instant noodles, then hands her an orange-flavored lollipop. “Don't be scared. This is... an electric fan.”
And so the strangest cross-time mutual-aid group in history is formed.
Li Zhao's life as a small-town teacher goes completely off track. By day he teaches “a, o, e”; by night he video-calls the princess to explain “why electric lights turn on by themselves.” His salary has to cover chalk as well as modeling clay and chocolate. After all, the little princess once used gold foil to put a “sun” on a wall in the Lizheng Hall, nearly sparking a diplomatic incident.
Meanwhile, little Sizi's life in the Tang Dynasty grows just as strange:
Her mother's cough improves day by day thanks to a little silver pot that sprays mist. Her father stares at a “fairy map” far more detailed than the Map of the Regions of Yu Gong and remains silent for three whole days. She secretly takes her sixteenth sister, Princess Chengyang, and ninth brother, Li Zhi, on a trip through time. The three little ancients chatter around a glowing “fairy mirror” (a tablet), while on the other end of the video call, Li Zhao is left not knowing whether to laugh or cry over math homework annotated by Empress Zhangsun...
A seed from the modern world takes root in the soil of Zhenguan.
And it changes far more than history.
This is a prosperous age brought about by a lollipop...
Nice writing, keep it up⛽
Overall, it's good, but the timeline is a bit messed up. I hope the author can read it from beginning to end.