The Little One Cuts Ties and Flees Famine: Fortune-Telling and Raising a Child in the Military District

Gu Nian opens her eyes and discovers that she has been reborn as a five-year-old girl in the 1960s, who shares her name.

It is the time of the three-year famine. Her grandmother is cruel, her uncle and aunt are greedy, her mother died young, and her father is stationed far away with the army, with no word from him. Faced with awful relatives who want to sell her for food, Gu Nian clenches her little fists.

No fear. She has the fortune-telling skills she learned from her grandfather in her previous life!

“Grandma, you'll meet with misfortune if you go out today. Those few eggs you've hidden are going to be in trouble.”

“Third Uncle, if you keep plotting evil, you'll fall into a latrine and get your fill within three days!”

“There's water thirty li to the southwest. Head east and you can dig up wild greens that will save your life...”

With her half-immortal golden finger, Gu Nian blazes through the refugee trek. Not only does she manage to fill her stomach, she also picks up a little turtle with spiritual powers as her companion.

Breaking with her family, fighting to survive, dealing with awful people... After enduring countless hardships, she finally stands at the entrance to the military compound with the little turtle in her arms. She timidly calls “Daddy” to the upright, stern-eyed man before her, and the whole compound is thrown into an uproar.

The cold, ruthless Battalion Commander Shen, nicknamed the “Living Yama,” has somehow acquired a sweet little girl out of nowhere?!

Shen Zhaoting looks at the little girl, who doesn't even reach his thigh, yet has eyes far too clear and composed for her age. He frowns. Whose child is this? Has she mistaken me for someone else?

But Gu Nian wraps her arms around his leg and says in a childish voice, “Uncle, I'll tell your fortune. You'll have the sign of ‘becoming a father overnight’ today. Don't believe me? Look, my dad's token is in your pocket.”