Transmigrated into a Period Novel, I Become a Little Magpie

Features a golden finger, with a slice-of-life feel.

A young nurse named Su Que'er arrives at the Railway Hospital. The girl is so pretty and exquisite it's almost breathtaking, and she has a cute little mouth that looks blessed with good fortune.

She seems so innocent that plenty of people pursue her.

This makes her older stepsister jealous, and the stepsister spreads rumors everywhere, saying Su Que'er is no good.

Su Que'er's adoptive parents want to marry her off to a divorced wife-beater, taking the 200 yuan bride price and sharing it with her stepbrother's family to help with household expenses and save for her stepsister's dowry.

Unexpectedly, Su Que'er meets Ying Xie, the deputy stationmaster of the provincial railway station, and leaves the promising young man utterly smitten.

It isn't until the wedding day that she learns Ying Xie is the man her stepsister has had a crush on since childhood.

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As deputy stationmaster of the provincial railway station, Ying Xie is injured while carrying out a railway assignment and stranded in the Gobi Desert with his colleagues.

In a daze, he sees a little magpie struggling to fly toward him, a grain seed in its beak.

Ying Xie looks at the seed in his palm and laughs. Could this really save the lives of more than 200 people?

To his surprise, the seed sprouts and grows in his palm.

They eat its fruit and drink from its stems!

It really does keep them alive until help arrives, a true miracle.

Afterward, they never find the little magpie that brought them the seed.

By chance, he goes to the Railway Hospital to visit an injured subordinate.

The moment he passes a young nurse, he somehow senses that she was the one who saved them!

She's that little magpie!

But the young woman pretends not to know and wants to keep her secret.

As Ying Xie gets to know her, he gradually falls for her, and from then on, his heart is bound to hers.

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The divorced wife-beater paid the bride price but didn't get to marry Su Que'er. After failing to get his money back several times, he ends up marrying Su Que'er's stepsister instead.

The scheming stepsister suddenly finds herself married to a bad-tempered man with a child from a previous relationship.

In their red-brick apartment building, the man is always shouting orders, and the two children play tricks on her. She no longer needs to go around badmouthing Su Que'er. Her own life is already plenty "lively."

2023.9.22

Theme: Kindness can make stones bloom.