When three-year-old Lin Xiaoxing knocked on the door of a wealthy family with glass beads in her hands, she didn't know that this family search was a ceremony to sacrifice innocence.
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"They said I should be grateful, but no one asked, who should I ask for in return for the stolen life?"
Being transferred, abused, and rejected - with a three-year-old body and thirty-year-old scars, she learned survival music on the road that is more difficult than the piano. Now, the truth is close at hand, but blood has become the coldest shackles. When her adoptive mother's stick was replaced by her biological mother's cold eyes, when the golden cage of a wealthy family was more suffocating than the cardboard box on the street corner, she finally understood: some families are luckier to not find than to find.
She left home at the age of three and walked through the fireworks of the market and the dark river of conspiracy. Grandma's fried dough sticks made early warmed the frozen fingers, the pages of the old professor's book in the library illuminated the road ahead, and the sweet smile of the fake daughter of a wealthy family hid a poison-quenched knife. She sees through hypocrisy with the eyes of a waif, and lays out the chess game with the wisdom of a survivor - until she tears apart the perfect mask at the family banquet, letting everyone see the lice under the fine clothes.
But when the lie of blood is shattered and the crown of glory falls, how can a child crawling out of the abyss learn to trust the sun again?
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She is the returning star and the wildfire that burns down the old world. At the grandest wealthy banquet in late autumn this year, who will the spotlight be on? Whose final chapter will be refracted by the glass beads?
