Star Ferry at Dusk
On the day of the wheat harvest, Lin Wanxing stood by the threshold, eight months pregnant, bearing a lifetime of hardship and toil. She swallowed her last breath. After her soul left her body, she saw her husband's cold-blooded violence with her own eyes, and stumbled upon the most sinister conspiracy between heaven and earth: System traffickers were running rampant, abducting the souls of women whose lifespans had run out and whose fortune was pure. They threw them into all kinds of fictional worlds to serve as "vessels," forcing them to bear and raise children for male protagonists, then draining their fortune to nourish these imaginary worlds in the hope of making novels into real worlds.
Fortunately, Black and White Impermanence tipped her off. She bound herself to the Underworld's exclusive countermeasure System 007, becoming a pioneer in the fight against System traffickers. From then on, she had no more of the coyness of a gentle young lady, only the fierce resilience forged by a life as a poor farmer. With a soul-protecting pearl in hand, she entered the worlds of novels. She had no interest in romantic entanglements; she relied on sheer grit and hard-won wisdom to break through each predicament:
In a Republican-era political intrigue, she sets her sights on the warlord protagonist Gu Yanchen. One night, she ambushes him in an alley, stuffs him into a sack, and beats him until he is a sorry sight. With the most ordinary bodily fluids, such as sweat, tears, and nosebleeds, she effortlessly extracts his fortune. She sees through the System traffickers' deliberate misdirection, rescues the first abducted soul, Su Manli, and opens a path home for her. She also turns the deceived male protagonist to their side, forming an alliance to fight the evil forces together.
She ventures through one fictional world after another and meets all kinds of abducted women: an embroiderer forced to become a concubine, a noblewoman reduced to a tool, and an ordinary maid trapped in the back courtyard. They once knew despair and surrender, but Lin Wanxing's arrival rekindles their hope of living. With the Underworld System as her shield and the wisdom of the common folk as her spear, she exposes the System traffickers' layers of schemes, destroys their core surveillance points, removes their illegal System bindings, and sends one sister after another back to her original world.
