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“This NPC is incredible! The despair in her eyes, those cracked lips, she embodies the words ‘fleeing famine’ down to her bones!”
After three years of severe drought, Li Xiuniang nearly sold herself just to get a sip of water for her son, who was burning with fever and babbling deliriously. But the moment she closed her eyes, she found herself in the brightly lit “Great Tang Everbright City.”
Confronted by “immortals” all over the streets, dressed in bizarre clothes and holding “glowing bricks,” Xiuniang dropped to her knees in terror. “Spare me, immortal master!”
The scenic area's manager, however, looked thrilled. “Ma’am, keep that expression! Sit here and weave straw sandals, then stitch the soles. I’ll pay you two hundred a day, with all-you-can-eat boxed lunches and fruit!”
Li Xiuniang was stunned. She could earn two hundred “immortal copper coins” just by stitching shoe soles?
When she used that day’s wages to push a cart back from the supermarket loaded with two hundred jin of flour and a jar of fruit candies, her famine-stricken family huddled together and wept.
Later, Li Xiuniang became the internet’s most popular NPC.
Her traditional needlework, so deft her hands seemed to blur, and her fish-cleaning skills, which could gut a fish in a second, drew millions of tourists from across the region, lining up to pay just for a glimpse of “the Great Tang’s foremost country woman”!
Who says fleeing famine means there’s no way out but death? With cold medicine in her left hand and pepper spray in her right, Li Xiuniang carved out a paradise for her children amid an ancient-era famine!
