"I'm a dragon, and I'm super fierce! When I grow up, I'll be an incredibly powerful dragon!" At the Xia family home, three-year-old Xia Xuanxuan showed off her tiny baby teeth and declared fiercely.
"Mm-hmm, Xuanxuan is a very powerful dragon. Now drink your milk, and have plenty so you can grow big." Xia Jing ruffled the protagonist's hair and put a bottle in her hands.
Xia Xuanxuan is a dragon, one who has been abandoned three times in a row.
The first time, the son of her foster parents played a prank and held her head underwater, trying to drown her. She gave him a beating, so the adults in the family beat her to avenge him, then threw her out.
The second time, a bachelor from the village took her home, then abandoned her because she ate too much.
The third time, a couple who couldn't have children took her in and raised her as their own. To repay them, she healed them with her dragon's breath. But after they had a child of their own, they decided she was a girl and a burden, and abandoned her too.
After she was abandoned for the third time, the villagers viewed her as a bringer of bad luck. They watched her nearly starve to death, not offering her even the smallest scrap.
Just as Xia Xuanxuan was so hungry she started searching through garbage cans, Xia Jing found her. Honest and kind, Xia Jing saw how terribly thin she was and took pity on her. Even when she had no food for herself, she saved the best for Xuanxuan and did her best to raise her.
Everyone mocked Xia Jing for being a fool. She could barely support herself, yet she had taken in that bringer of bad luck. At this rate, people said, she would meet the King of Hell even sooner. Nearly everyone waited for Xia Jing's family to become a laughingstock.
But instead, Xia Jing's family prospered, to the envy of the whole village.
Ever since Xia Jing adopted Xia Xuanxuan, everything went wonderfully for the family! They built a big house and filled it with all kinds of delicious food. They were lucky in everything, too. Even the irritating rats and mosquitoes never went near their home!
The foster parents who had abandoned Xuanxuan, the bachelor, and the couple who couldn't have children were so jealous they could practically bleed from their eyes.
Wu Tianlang, who had once tried to hold her underwater until she died, even came looking for her, using every trick he could think of to extort her.
Xia Xuanxuan showed him no mercy. She gathered evidence and sent him to prison. As they parted, her eyes and brows still held the same haughty, overbearing look that had never faded. "I told you that if you abandoned me, you'd regret it."
She is a dragon, an incredibly fierce dragon. But... she repays those who treat her well a hundredfold.
Theme: I'll be there as you grow up, and you'll be there as I grow old