Level-Max Toddler, Thirty Thousand Years Old

My new novel, The Little Koi Is the Family's Treasure in the 1970s, is now underway. Come give it a try!

Synopsis:

Manman, a young biwinged bird who had just turned thirty thousand, transmigrated into a book and became a three-and-a-half-year-old human.

When she arrived, her father, Jing Lian, who had also become human, was at the lowest point of his life. His voice had been ruined, and he was drowning in scandals.

To help her father, Manman joined him on a parent-child adventure variety show disguised as a laid-back travel program.

The production team was notorious for tormenting its guests. Every celebrity who had appeared on the show before had suffered through the experience, ending up disheveled and providing plenty of laughs.

Before filming, viewers rubbed their hands together in anticipation: [Hehe, there's going to be a good show!]

Filming was moved up at the last minute, and the guests were told to pack all their luggage in twenty minutes:

Viewers: [We love watching these pampered celebrities, who can't tell grain from weeds and never lift a finger, scramble around!]

Jing Lian sat down on the sofa with Manman in his arms. I'm weak, and I was just poisoned. I can't do it...

Manman: Boohoo, my poor daddy! He's so skinny, a gust of wind could knock him over. Uncle, how could you be so cruel?

Director: ?

Viewers: ? You can even poke fun at yourself like that?

A group of guests were dumped in a desert on their way to the destination.

Director: The show's budget is limited. The guests will have to make their own way the rest of the way.

Viewers: [Hehe, there's nothing around for miles. Let's see how you get out of this one!]

Jing Lian: Manman, come on. Let's eat the roast chicken first, then the fried skewers, and finish with a fruit platter.

Manman: Munch, munch. So yummy! Daddy, let's not go. It'd be nice to live here, too. Manman can build us a nest all by herself!

Director: ?

Viewers: [Now I'm starving. Manually opening the blue app!]

Halfway through filming, not a single one of the production team's pranks had worked. Instead, Manman and her father had brought out the rebellious streak in the other guests, and now everyone was having fun playing tricks on the production team.

Director: Who gave me that bogus information? Wasn't Jing Lian supposed to be the gentlest, most modest, and easiest to manipulate?

Jing Lian: There's an old saying in China: A father grows strong for his child.

Manman: Daddy is always right!

Director: ...

Viewers: [Hahaha, look who's having a bad day! We're rooting for Jing Lian and the baby. Well done!]

The next day, #AFatherGrowsStrongForHisChild, #DaddyIsAlwaysRight, and #TroublemakingDirectorSuffersAnEpicDefeat all made the trending list. Jing Lian became popular again, and Manman earned several titles, including Sweetest Little Darling and Daddy's Precious Girl!

[Reader's Note: 1. This story is fictional, has no real-life inspirations, and includes many original settings. Please don't read too much into it. 2. It's a slice-of-life story, so the pacing may be slow.

3. The little one's already maxed out and ready to unleash her power. Her golden finger is exceptionally powerful!]

Coming soon: The Little Koi Is the Family's Treasure in the 1970s

Synopsis: Fuyin was a koi who had cultivated for two hundred years. Just after leaping over the Dragon Gate, before she could temper her body and transform, she was swept by the Weak Water to an unfamiliar place and became a helpless baby who could only whimper and wail.

Fuyin: Oh no, how am I supposed to survive?

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Jinyu Village had been suffering from drought. It hadn't rained a drop in a year, the crops in the fields had all died, and the earth was cracked. Just as the villagers were despairing and preparing to abandon their homes, a baby appeared beneath the hundred-year-old tree by the village shrine, accompanied by a downpour.

The village's most respected elder said excitedly, “This is a blessing from heaven! Jinyu Village has hope!”

The villagers, who had been ready to flee, unpacked their bundles and settled down again. They all gave up some of their own food to take good care of the village's hope.

One family made rice gruel today, another squeezed out dog milk tomorrow. They raised Fuyin until she was as chubby as a little lotus-root doll.

As they cared for Fuyin, the villagers also noticed that their village seemed to be getting better and better.

Rainwater soaked the cracked earth, and the dead crops came back to life. Even when locusts ravaged the neighboring villages, theirs remained untouched.

And after the college entrance exams were reinstated, other villages struggled to send even one student to university, while every villager from theirs who took the exam got into the university of their choice...

Theme: Family is the best medicine for healing.