Head of the Household at Fourteen: I Put All My Younger Siblings Through the Imperial Exams

In 1994, her parents leave to find work in the south and vanish without a trace. Fourteen-year-old Lin Xuemei, the top student in her grade, is forced to tear up her textbooks and hold her crumbling family together on her own!

With no golden finger, she relies on her photographic memory, extraordinary resilience, and an instinct for survival honed down to the last detail. She scavenges, digs for medicinal herbs, and runs small businesses, carving out a path to success in the impoverished 1990s!

Bullies in the village, relatives trying to seize the family property, and sneering neighbors all predict that the four children will starve to death in the wilderness. Sky-high tuition, hunger, and cold press in from every side, threatening to push them into the abyss.

She lives on bran and wild greens, dressed in patches, yet keeps supporting her three younger siblings: You just keep moving forward. If the sky falls, your big sister will hold it up! After more than a decade of tearful toil, the quiet eldest brother becomes a leading scientist behind the nation's most important research, the mischievous second brother becomes a billionaire who commands the business world, and the gentle youngest sister becomes a top doctor renowned for her miraculous healing hands.

When the three big shots at the peak of their era all return, how will those who once trampled them tremble? And what enormous wealth and love await the long-suffering eldest sister who devoted her whole life to her siblings?