In the dead of night in Gagnier, three unlucky grave robbers pry open a thousand-year-old stone coffin.
Instead of a blue-faced, fanged ghost leaping out, they find... a dazed little girl. Her skin is like jade, and her eyes are as clear as a newborn’s. She can’t even walk properly, and when she sees a car, she dives into someone’s arms in fright.
She remembers nothing, except that her name is Su Nuo. A “little zombie” awakened from three thousand years ago, she’s taken in by the owner of a wonton stall and put to work.
People think she’s an easy target: bullies try to frame her, socialites scheme against her, unscrupulous merchants spread rumors, and a warlord’s adjutant brings soldiers to seize her.
But everyone underestimates one thing: she only “looks stupid.”
She can catch a shopkeeper’s ten years of shady accounting just by doing the sums, see through every lie at a glance, and make a dozen armed soldiers drop to their knees with a wave of her hand.
She won’t bite. But she can make everyone plotting against her trip themselves up.
She only wants to figure out three things: Who am I? Why have I been asleep for so long? And... can I get an extra egg in my wontons tonight?
