[Period Setting + Adorable Kid + Divination (Classical Chinese Studies and Logic) + Military Life + Patriotism + Tearjerker]
Su Ruanruan had a hard life. She had never seen her parents, and was raised in the countryside beside a pigsty, eating spoiled water and sleeping on straw.
Fortunately, fate had other plans. She met a wandering Taoist priest and learned the true secrets of the Eight Trigrams and Zi Wei astrology.
At an age when other children were still playing in the mud, Su Ruanruan made a calculation with her fingers. “My dad is still alive! He’s in the army!”
So the tiny girl, barely taller than a broom, slung a tattered cloth bag over her back and traveled a thousand miles to a border military district.
Facing the commander-in-chief, a man cloaked in murderous intent and known as the “Living Yama,” she called out in her little voice, “Daddy!”
The entire military district was stunned! The commander had a daughter?
At first, the commander said coldly, “Where did this little beggar come from? Send her away.”
Later...
A drought at the border? Ruanruan studied the sky. “Daddy, dig here. There’s water!”
An enemy agent in hiding? Ruanruan studied his face. “That uncle’s eyes look suspicious.”
The troops running out of food? Ruanruan applied the Five Elements. “There’s a wild boar meeting south of the valley!”
From disdain to doting, from border outposts to the road to the capital.
This is a heartwarming story of a father and daughter saving one another through difficult times, outsmarting villains, and shouldering their love for their country with their small, young shoulders.
(Note: This is not a cultivation novel. The heroine uses her intelligence and classical Chinese knowledge to solve problems. A tribute to a pure and passionate era!)
