My Sizi Was Spirited Away by a Modern-Day Dad

[Tang Dynasty + Little Sizi + Sky Screen + Livestream Videos + Modern Parenting + Dad Life + No System + Adorable Child + Everyone’s Favorite]

Chen Hao, a twenty-eight-year-old supermarket owner, found a three-year-old girl outside his store on a stormy night. She was covered in mud and dressed in a Tang-style skirt and blouse. Stumbling over her words, she called him “Father,” shivering with hunger. Chen Hao served her a bowl of rice topped with tomato and scrambled eggs. The moment she took her first bite, a sky screen split open above Chang’an during the Zhenguan era, displaying the scene to millions of people in a vast, picture-like image.

Inside the Taiji Palace, Li Shimin recognized the little girl with tomato sauce all over her face. She was his youngest daughter, Princess Jinyang, Li Mingda, who had gone missing three days earlier. Her pet name was Sizi.

From then on, Chen Hao’s daily life caring for the girl was livestreamed at random to the entire Tang Dynasty by the sky screen. He took Sizi shopping at the supermarket, watched cartoons with her, got her vaccinated, ate hotpot, sent her to kindergarten... Every ordinary part of modern life sent shock waves through the Tang Dynasty. Chen Hao himself had no idea and simply thought he was raising a poor abandoned child.

Li Shimin mobilized the whole nation to “find that man” and get his daughter back. The officials of the Tang court argued endlessly over the wondrous objects shown on the sky screen, while forces across the land quietly made their moves. Meanwhile, in the modern world, a single man suddenly caring for a beautiful girl of unknown origins attracted gossip from the neighbors, questions from the community, and even the attention of people with ulterior motives.

The two eras became inextricably linked because of one doll-like little girl.