In the 1980s, He Adopted a Sweet, Simple-Minded Baby, and the Single Rough-Hewn Man Came Out on Top

In 1981, Qinghe Convent collapsed, and the abandoned babies it had taken in were distributed among the village teams. Other families fought over the older children who could work and the boys who were easy to raise. Only three-year-old Nuonuo was shunned by the entire village: she was slow-witted, mute, and a jinx who had brought down the convent!

Just as no one wanted her, the little girl pushed through the crowd and clung tightly to the leg of Lin Shan, the poorest bachelor in the village. In her babyish voice, she called out, “Daddy!”

Mocked by the whole village, Lin Shan gritted his teeth and brought her home. His only family was his one-eyed mother!

Everyone waited for Lin Shan's family to be eaten out of house and home, but on Nuonuo's very first day there:

The hens lined up to lay double-yolk eggs! The wild queen bees from the mountain chased after them to deliver dozens of pounds of honey!

When her biased grandparents came to steal their things, Nuonuo retaliated by smearing beeswax all over Grandma's face and biting the wicked old man until he cried...