Li Suisui never imagined she could be this unlucky. She had just passed the civil service exam when a car hit and killed her. Well, she was dead, but how had she woken up in the Republican era? At least she was born into a wealthy family, so she had no worries about food or clothes. For a modern-day layabout like her, it was the perfect life. But after just a few days of being waited on hand and foot, her county fell, and her home was confiscated. Li Suisui sold all the jewelry and valuables she had hidden away, then headed south with her cash.
Just after Li Suisui arrived in Yuzhou and settled in, a warlord named Chen Jing captured the city and moved into the grand Western-style mansion next door. Li Suisui did something stupid: she climbed a jujube tree in her yard to get a look at the warlord. The moment their eyes met, she knew she was done for. She cursed herself for being an idiot, an absolute fool. Why gawk at a warlord? What did she think this was, watching the flag-raising ceremony in Tiananmen Square? She scrambled down the tree as fast as she could.
The days that followed were miserable for Li Suisui. Every day, she felt a prickling sensation on her back, as if someone were watching her. But whenever she turned around, there was no one there. At night she piled on an extra quilt, and even in the dead of winter she worked up a sweat...
