[Three Kingdoms spin-off + female lead + no romance + virtuous teacher + trash-can golden finger]
An accident transmigrates Zhang Jiao.
Once a surgeon in the twenty-first century, she is now Zhang Jiao, an ordinary village girl in the turbulent late Eastern Han dynasty.
From the start, she's saddled with biased grandparents, a cowardly father, and a meek mother.
It's a disastrous start, and Zhang Jiao, who was born into this world, thinks she's got it rough.
Looking at her little arms and legs, then at the house, more ruined than one in Syria and drafty from every direction, Zhang Jiao wants to curse the heavens.
Her family is so poor they can't even eat enough beans to fill their stomachs. Her eldest brother is thin as a big-headed doll, and her second sister is skinny as a skeleton.
Just then, an image flashes through her mind: the trash cans in the luxury residential complex where she lived in the twenty-first century, along with a 30-square-meter storage space at a waste collection station.
What! Eat trash? Even dogs won't eat that!
Zhang Jiao: If dogs won't eat it, I'll eat it. Delicious!
Leftover meals, expired bread and instant noodles, unfinished soda, discarded old clothes and shoes, meat that's no longer fresh, dead shrimp, uneaten whole grains from someone's diet, flour...
With nothing to her name, Zhang Jiao uses her left hand to scavenge, practice medicine, and farm, and her right to play at being a mystic, trying to support herself and her family.
But the harsh reality deals her an even harder blow.
Want to practice medicine? No medicine! Want to farm? No land!
All she can do to survive is scavenge and pretend to be a mystic.
