The Adorable Four-and-a-Half-Year-Old Prodigy: She Reads Causes and Effects, Not Faces

The Nang family palace lost its blindfolded legitimate daughter and took in an adopted girl said to be destined to become a phoenix. Everyone said the abandoned four-and-a-half-year-old had long since been buried in the river.

Who would have thought that when she opened her eyes again, she would see not the colors of mountains and rivers, but threads of cause and effect wrapped around every person. She hit the road with a down-and-out old blind man, set up a shabby little stall, and used copper coins to tell fortunes and silver notes to break deadlocks: “I can't reveal heaven's secrets for free. Pay first.”

The prefect's ancestral grave springs a leak, the richest man's son carries an old debt, and the young master of a flower boat is about to fall into a trap of his own making. At first, everyone laughs at her gloomy predictions. But when each one comes true, the powerful queue up with hefty sums to see her.

And every time she helps someone settle a debt from the underworld, she comes one step closer to reclaiming the Heavenly Phoenix fate that was stolen from her. Until the palace in the capital asks her to return. She lifts the black cloth, only to see...