Reborn at five years old, Minglan's first move was to spike the chicken soup Auntie Lin had sent over. Seeing the yellow dog foam at the mouth, Lady Wei finally believed it: if they stayed in the Sheng family, they would die. That night, five-year-old Minglan led the way through a hole in the wall, while her aunt arrived with a donkey cart to meet them. A cloud of lime powder threw off their pursuers, and they made it safely back to Anji. She opened a publishing house, ran a restaurant, bought estates, and established a reading hall. Twelve years later, she was the richest person in northern Zhejiang and an official woman personally appointed by the emperor. In this life, her surname was not Sheng. It was Wei.
