(Adorable little one + gossip System + mysticism + beloved army-base darling + feel-good period story, no identity reveals, and the ultimate doting dad!)
Ling Nian Ci, an elder of the Xuantian Sect, fails her tribulation and wakes up as Ling Xiaoqi, a pitiful three-year-old in 1962. In the depths of winter, she's thrown into a woodshed, while her vicious second aunt discusses giving her to a cripple in exchange for ration coupons. As she's on the verge of death, the [Gossip System for Protecting the Nation] forcibly binds itself to her.
“This System has strict rules: only good people can hear your thoughts, and evil people are permanently blocked. Please do your best to survive until you find your biological father.”
Looking at her awful relatives, Ling Nian Ci unleashes a flood of thoughts: [Second Aunt stole eggs from the production team last night! The village secretary and the widow at the end of the village are in the cornfield...]
Her blind grandmother, the only person who's kind to her, “happens” to hear everything, and one by one, the wicked relatives get their comeuppance. But all Ling Nian Ci wants is to take it easy: [Where's Dad? Hurry up and find him. This venerable one doesn't want to catch spies herself!]
Then she's dumped in the mountains and clings to a coal train all the way to the North China Military Region.
When the iron-blooded regiment commander Ling Zhan rides back, he freezes at the sight of the filthy little girl.
“Daddy!” The moment her childish voice rings out, he hears a shocking thought:
[Finally found you! You look fierce, but your killing intent is righteous. From now on, catching spies is your job!]
Ling Zhan looks at the file that says his daughter “died three years ago” and calmly takes her home.
From then on, the military region has a three-year-old darling with mystical powers and a gossip System.
Ling Nian Ci thinks she's hiding everything well, playing dumb and enjoying the gossip every day as she settles into her life as the family's beloved darling.
She doesn't know that her iron-blooded father has already used the thoughts he “happened” to hear to sweep through the nation's spy networks, turn over blueprints for cutting-edge technology, and powerfully help the great nation rise.
