The Adorable Child I Picked Up on the Run from Famine Turned Out to Be the Real Heiress of the Capital

In a year of disaster, the road to escape is littered with the dead and dying.

For the sake of a bowl of meat soup, the wicked foster father trades four-year-old Nuannuan for a dead child to eat!

Lin Xiu, the wife of the Chen family’s fifth son, who has never been able to have children, sees red and fights to snatch the girl away. She spends the last three pounds of their life-saving grain to take in the poor little thing.

Their relatives look down on them, and the refugees are jealous. Everyone laughs at the Chen family for losing their minds. They’re nearly starving themselves, yet they’ve taken on a girl who’ll only cost them money!

But ever since the Chens adopt Nuannuan, their escape from famine goes as smoothly as if they’ve unlocked a cheat code.

Nuannuan says she wants meat, and a fat pheasant flies straight into a tree and knocks itself out.

She steps into the bushes to pee and finds forty or fifty pounds of wild potatoes underfoot.

She casually says, “The ducks are here,” and a five- or six-pound fat duck really does fall from the sky!

While other families are starving and chewing tree bark or swallowing clay, the Chens feast on stewed meat every day, and her five older brothers spoil her rotten.

Eldest Brother: Nuannuan, I’ll go catch you a wild rabbit!

Second Brother: Nuannuan, the road’s rough. I’ll carry you!

Third, Fourth, and Fifth Brothers: Anyone who dares say a bad word about our sister can answer to our fists!

As the Chen family’s fortunes improve, Nuannuan’s wicked foster parents grow jealous and throw a tantrum, demanding their lucky charm back.

The Chen family brandish their shoulder poles and machetes. Anyone who dares take our precious girl will have to pay with their life!

Then one day, a powerful figure from the capital arrives with troops and surrounds the mountain.

“Let’s see who dares touch the precious girl my family has been searching for for four years!”