Blurb:
As the eldest daughter, He Miao has never known what it feels like to be someone's favorite.
Her parents always taught her that "an elder sister is like a mother," that she should "give without holding anything back," and that "the debt of gratitude to parents who raised you is greater than anything."
Brainwashed by their words, she went south to work at sixteen,
putting her younger siblings through high school and college, and earning enough for her family to build a two-story house.
She thought she could finally take a breather, only to discover that the house she'd paid for didn't even have a room for her.
Her heart turned ice-cold. To hell with family. This time, she was going to live for herself!
After she left, the once lively He household suddenly became quiet.
Her parents and younger siblings, who had never thought much of her, inexplicably began to feel... unaccustomed to life without her?
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With the money she'd planned to spend renovating the family home and buying furniture, He Miao bought a tiny, run-down courtyard house in the county town.
She discovered that the back gate seemed to be a tunnel through time, leading to a magnificent palace.
Inside lay a beautiful young boy, barely clinging to life.
Like a cat, he let out a weak little voice: "If you save me... I'll grant you anything you ask..."
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Chu Jilian, the young crown prince of the Sheng Kingdom, had been confined to the Eastern Palace for offending Chancellor Liu Juanzhang, who held power over the entire court and controlled the emperor to command the officials.
He thought he was destined to "die suddenly in the Eastern Palace, leaving the court and people to mourn before being forced to appoint another crown prince."
Until, with mixed emotions, he saw that:
A steaming plate of red-braised pork had appeared on the desk.
His dirty gold-threaded robe had been replaced with a light, warm down jacket.
The old eunuch who came every day to check whether he was dead had been beaten black and blue by someone, and now only dared to call from the doorway to see if he was still alive.
She even took him to her world to learn, and gave him a hand cannon for self-defense...
A ray of light suddenly appeared in his dark world.
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He Miao brought fresh spring water, high-yield crop seeds, smallpox vaccines, tractors, and agricultural know-how to the drought-stricken Great Sheng Kingdom.
To the young boy and the people of Sheng, she was a god.
And from them, she experienced a kind of favoritism and partiality she'd never known before.
She no longer cared about the family she'd left behind.
As the He family watched her life grow better and better, they could only look on in horror as even their voices were drowned out by the crowd.
[Reading Guide]:
1. Readers who've read my other works know I'm not a romance-focused author. The main focus is the plot and everyday life, and this book is the same.
2. Time passes at different rates in the two worlds. Little Jilian will soon grow into a man who can protect his big sister. The main appeal is the fun of watching him grow up.
Theme: Take one step forward and the world opens up; take one step back and you get breast hyperplasia