[Period setting | Everyone’s favorite | Four older brothers | Abandoned girl | Adorable child | Reborn | Family healing | She wins them over | Face-slapping | Adoption | Tough on the outside, soft on the inside | Heartwarming family life]
How sensible does a four-year-old have to be before she dares to beg people not to throw her away?
Lin Bao’er is abandoned by her birth parents and nearly sold by her aunt. The Gu family gives her a bowl of sweet potato porridge, so she gets up before dawn to sweep and boil water. She even scalds her hands while washing her eldest brother’s feet.
“I don’t eat much, and I can work. Please don’t send me away.”
“Whoever calls you a burden can get out of here first.”
Yet the four brothers who initially resented her for wasting food all change their tune. One rushes to get the adoption papers in the middle of the night. Another blocks the door with an axe, while the other two watch over her as she burns with a fever, their eyes red. Everyone thinks Bao’er is just waiting for someone to save her, but no one knows she has already memorized the deal between her aunt and the human traffickers. When her aunt comes calling again, how will Bao’er make her humiliate herself in front of everyone?
