At the age of five, Gong Le Yi was given the fate of a Lone Star of Calamity. Anyone who grew close to her would suffer misfortune and lose their life, and the only way to be safe was to send the whole family away.
But the Gong family stubbornly kept her close, fiercely protective of their own and unwilling to believe in gods, spirits, or superstition. To outsiders, they were as good as walking to their deaths, and the wealthy families kept their distance.
Yet they watched the Gong family escape death time and again, turn disaster into good fortune, and climb to ever-greater heights, becoming people everyone else could only look up to.
Her parents, who had been in a plane crash, became a legendary international business figure and a leading scientist devoted to helping the country.
Her eldest brother lost an arm in a car accident, yet became a peerless prodigy who would shake up the worlds of business, politics, and the military.
Her second sister, once disgraced, disfigured by acid, violated, and left pregnant before attempting suicide in despair, became a red-hot international superstar.
Her third brother, trampled by a horse and left permanently disabled, won one international gold medal after another representing the national team.
Her fourth sister lost an eye, was left with facial scars, and withdrew from the world in despair. She became an heir to traditional Chinese medicine, skilled in both healing and poison.
Her fifth brother was frail and sickly, expected to die young of heart failure, but went on to become a painting prodigy, a world-class architectural designer, and an inheritor of Lu Ban’s legacy.
Her sixth brother was kidnapped by human traffickers and beaten to death, but learned martial arts and joined a secret national unit, able to lure enemies with his handsome looks and punch through wood with a single strike.
The careers and studies of friends and relatives who grew close to Gong Le Yi also flourished. They took hands of losing cards and played them into winning hands, turning their fortunes around.
How could she be a Lone Star of Calamity? She was clearly a bringer of good fortune!
