The queen who survived to the end of the apocalypse opens her eyes to find herself Su Nian, a three-year-old girl in the Su family during a year of severe drought.
Her father was conscripted to guard the frontier and is missing, presumed dead. Her mother died in childbirth, leaving her and her baby brother to be treated like easy pickings by their grandmother and uncles.
Their land deeds are seized, their rations withheld, and even the money for her brother’s life-saving medicine is about to be stolen. But they don’t know that this little girl carries the soul of a decisive, ruthless fighter.
With a pocket dimension of her own, complete with fertile fields watered by a living spring and mountains of stored supplies, her first task is to empty this greedy, predatory family home down to the roots.
She will sever ties, divide the household, and flee with her brother. She will take her only living relative across the scorched earth and find the father who is still alive at the border.
Anyone who gets in her way will pay the price. In this life, she and her loved ones will live well.
