The 1980s: A Thousand-Year-Old Ginseng Spirit in the Military Compound

After failing her tribulation, a thousand-year-old Changbai Mountain ginseng spirit opens her eyes to find herself reborn as Jiang Tuantuan, a three-year-old girl in a military compound in the 1980s, so sick she’s barely alive.

Her family of five is desperately poor, living on thin, watery porridge every meal.

Everyone in the compound laughs that the Jiangs can’t even keep a sickly child alive, waiting for a spectacle.

Jiang Tuantuan quietly clenches her chubby little fists. Don’t panic. I can photosynthesize!

From then on, a fair, plump little dumpling appears on the Jiang family’s balcony every day, carrying a little stool out to bask in the sun.

Then something amazing happens.

The cabbages in the Jiang family’s yard, frozen to death, come back to life, and their radishes grow bigger than winter melons. Their old hen lays three eggs a day. Her father’s old injury heals on its own, and good fortune keeps coming to the whole family!

Everyone in the compound is stunned. They scramble to visit the Jiang family, hoping to share in the “lucky star’s” good fortune.

Just as Tuantuan is helping her family turn their lives around with her meager spiritual power, she catches the attention of Lu Yu, the grim, aloof soldier next door, whose whole body seems to radiate a murderous aura.

Not only does he keep staring at her, he leans closer and says, “You smell so sweet.”

Tuantuan trembles and shields her little topknot. Help! This great white tiger who crossed paths with me in my previous life isn’t planning to pluck me clean and stew me into soup, is he?!