The Troublemaker in the Period Novel

Wu Ming, a squad leader at an end-of-the-world base, detonated her own ability to save her teammates. When she opened her eyes again, she'd become nine-year-old Wu Huandi a poor girl who had been given away by her birth parents and then sent back, and who would grow up to be tricked by a thug and eventually beaten to death by her husband. In front of her were three sisters, so brainwashed they'd grown numb. Behind her were her parents, who couldn't stop calling girls useless money sinks. A broken family that favored boys over girls, a pack of greedy wolves, and a scumbag future husband who hadn't grown up yet? And all around her were grandmothers, aunts, cousins, and older female relatives who kept yielding, sacrificing, and compromising. Wu Ming lived by the principle that the truth was a sharp blade, and used it to puncture Grandma's fantasy that all her sons were dutiful: Second Uncle's family shut the door and secretly ate chicken last night. They didn't even bring Grandma a bowl. Grandma flew into a rage. "You greedy little girl!" Wu Ming grinned. "Your second son is the unfilial one!" She told her deceived cousin the truth: her cousin's husband had another lover on the side. She shouldn't keep slaving away for his family. Her cousin's mother-in-law snapped, "Are you here to break up our family?" Wu Ming spoke plainly. "Didn't your son break it up first?" She told her gullible eldest sister the truth: their parents had accepted a huge bride price and tricked her into marrying the pockmarked, lame Gao from the Gao family. The man who came to meet her was Gao's younger brother. She shouldn't let herself be sold and then help count the money. Her birth mother chased after her, threatening to beat her to death. "You nosy little girl! Who told you to spout such nonsense?" Wu Ming ran for her life. "What a heartless mother! Who told you to be wicked enough to sell your daughter?" With her sharp tongue that exposed lies, Wu Ming became a notorious troublemaker far and wide. "They called her a troublemaker. But every time she stirred things up, what she brought to the surface was all the schemes and scams hidden beneath 'it's for your own good,' the tricks of selling off daughters, the sacrifices and compromises people had been talked into, and the rules imposed on them. She dragged it all out into the sunlight." Blurb completed on August 5, 2026, and a screen recording has been saved. Theme: There's no turning back in life!