Struck by Lightning, She Was Abducted to Bring Good Luck to a Sick Groom

Lightning powers + purification + pocket dimension + cute pets + bringing good fortune through marriage + fiercely protective + punishing scoundrels + fleeing danger + searching for family Not a transmigration story, not a rebirth story. On a stormy night, eight-year-old farm girl Chu Jiu takes her goose, A Dai, through the rain to fetch a midwife from the village. Her mother has gone into premature labor after her aunt pushed her over. On the way home, the rogue Wang Sanban tries to abduct Chu Jiu. As she struggles to escape, they are both struck by lightning: one dies, the other survives. After waking from a fever that lasts all night, Chu Jiu has no time to tell anyone what happened the night before before one disaster after another leaves her reeling. Her newborn little sister has died, her paternal family from the old homestead comes to drive her and her mother out, and the Wang clan follows the clues to find her and demand her life. Her father is beaten unconscious and locked away by the Wang family and her relatives as he tries to protect her. Her mother is in critical condition from postpartum hemorrhaging. In desperation, Chu Jiu only wants to protect her parents and the family's belongings, but someone from the Wang family strikes her with a club and knocks her out. When she crawls out of her grave, she discovers that she has awakened a pocket dimension containing the things she considers most important. With her body weak from exhaustion, she summons lightning to shatter Wang Sanban's coffin in revenge, then collapses from sheer fatigue. When she wakes again, a passing carriage has taken her to a completely unfamiliar place. The steward says they have to choose the girl with the strongest fate from among a group of girls to bring good fortune through marriage to the young master…