My Brothers Beg Me to Stop Competing

Shen Shanyue, a brisk and fiery emergency room doctor, wakes up one day in the body of a little girl who is both deaf and mute. The good news: she’s completely healed after transmigrating. Her parents dote on her, her brothers spoil her, and her aloof childhood friend is always there to protect her. The bad news: a local holy man thinks she’s possessed and wants to burn her alive. In the middle of winter, she’s driven out to the mountains and nearly freezes solid. With the torches about to be lit, Shanyue shouts at the top of her lungs. “The Bodhisattva has enlightened me!” And so begins a life of bluffing and conning her way through everything. Never had a heated bed to survive the winter? The Bodhisattva taught me how to build one. Five hundred copper coins each. Short on doctors and medicine? Why would I forget my emergency room skills from my previous life? Too poor at home? None of my brothers gets to slack off. My own brother is going to study, my cousin is going to learn martial arts, and my sworn brother is going to become a master of both letters and arms. Work, work, work! Get cracking, all of you! The year the Shen family went from having nothing but four bare walls to owning a thousand mu of fertile farmland, Shanyue was eighteen. The matchmakers had worn a path to their door, and her father’s carrying pole was nearly worn through from swinging it at them. Then the quiet young man who always brought her his hunting catch before anyone else suddenly blocked her path home. “Shen Shanyue!” “When you fell into a trap at eight, who came to rescue you in the middle of the night?” “When you went up the mountain at ten and a scorpion chased you, who took the hit for you?” “You owe me. It’s time to pay me back!” Theme: When faced with hardship, have the resolve to change your fate, and the kindness to help one another.