In the third year of the drought, Ao Xiaoman, the dragon girl whose dragon power was stripped away, fell into a dry well and starved for three days.
The widow orion hunter Jiang Niang fished her out and fed her half a bowl of brown rice porridge mixed with bran.
From then on, the dragon recognized this food - Jiang's family could not be empty, the village could not harvest, and the people in the north could not starve to death.
Every time she casts the spell, she shrinks in size. The more she saves people, the smaller she becomes. The smaller she becomes, the more scared she becomes. The more scared she becomes, the more she has to eat two more bowls to calm her shock.
Someone asked her why she didn't leave.
She said: They are starving to death. Who will cook braised pork for me?