My Lingzhi Is Three and a Half Years Old

A spiritual lingzhi takes human form at the tender age of three, becoming the beginning of a future empress's reign.

The thousand-year-old lingzhi spirit Zhizhi became a human child no more than three years old. She was found and brought home by Xie Jin, who had gone into the mountains to gather herbs, and his nine-year-old son, Xie Heng. They were there to save Lin Qinghe, the national hero who had once been stripped of her military command by a tyrant and nearly killed.

Living in seclusion deep in the mountains, the family of three could have lived in peace. Xie Heng practiced martial arts and studied, Xie Jin practiced medicine and wrote poetry, and Lin Qinghe healed and bided her time. But Zhizhi's arrival not only cured Lin Qinghe's old injuries, it also helped this woman, abandoned by the court, take up her blade once more.

The tyrant ruled without virtue, and the people were driven from their homes. When the cries of the people reached the mountains, Lin Qinghe finally understood: yielding could never bring peace. Only taking up the sword could end the fighting.

And that tiny lingzhi might just be the most unexpected twist in this chaotic age.

This is a story of patience and retaliation, kindness and steely resolve. See how the national hero leaves the mountains for the throne and becomes an empress, and how the three-year-old lingzhi spirit uses her medicinal fragrance to heal the chronic ills of an empire.