Poplars in the Desert: A Single Mother's Revenge

Her premature baby girl is on the brink of death. Her husband is having an affair with her own younger sister, her in-laws are trying to kill the infant to seize the family inheritance, and the Zhao family are using their power to steal a century-old grove of desert poplars. Lin Wanxing wakes from the delivery bed to find a world bristling with fangs.

As her daughter turns blue and struggles to breathe in the incubator, false testimony and deadly schemes sweep in like a sandstorm. At death's door, the poplar-wood token left by her grandfather awakens the System: poplar resin can stop hemolysis, drought-resistant cotton can break through desperate odds, and even the desert's raging sandstorms can be turned to her advantage.

She pretends to be unconscious to switch the medicine, ventures into the Gobi at night to gather life-saving herbs, uses a voice recorder to expose the affair, and plants hope in the sand with three cottonseeds. What past is hidden in the scars of forest ranger Mu Yun? And what storm of bloodshed will the Zhao family's conspiracy over a buried underground spring unleash?

"If you want to touch my daughter, you'll have to step over my dead body first."

When a mother's backbone meets the desert's blade, and the roots of a thousand-year-old poplar coil around the ankles of the guilty, this desperate fight to protect her child will make even the sandstorms of Hongliu Village remember one woman's name.