[Mysticism + communication across time + exchanging supplies + fake and real heiresses + comeback and face-slapping + stockpiling + infrastructure development + years of famine]
During a year of severe drought, Mu Zichen, the new ruler of the Jing Kingdom, prayed for rain to save his people, offering his own blood as a sacrifice: "I am willing to give my life in exchange for favorable weather and abundant harvests."
That was how he made contact with Su Qiqi, a modern archaeology student who was poor and down on her luck.
The prayer for rain in the blood sacrifice connected the past and present.
What? A severe drought? I'll give you rivers that flow without end.
What? A neighboring country has declared war and invaded the Jing Kingdom? Take all the military strategies, weapons, and medicine you need.
What? Your territory has too many mountains, too little farmland, and underdeveloped agriculture? I'll show you the wonders of infrastructure development.
Thanks to all the rewards Mu Zichen sent her, Su Qiqi managed to get her mother a kidney transplant and save the woman who had always depended on her.
But then she discovered that the mother she had relied on was her adoptive mother, and her wealthy biological parents came looking for her.
Her fake heiress of a sister, a scheming white lotus, wanted her dead. Su Qiqi said, "If I don't flatten you, you'll throw my heart into chaos."
In the ancient Great Jing Kingdom, she earned the favor of the mysterious sect's old master and inherited powerful Daoist arts, becoming the only Daoist grandmaster left in the modern world.
From then on, one glance was enough for Su Qiqi to see fortune and misfortune, and a simple calculation could reveal the balance of yin and yang. Her talismans sent demons and ghosts fleeing, and she became sworn brothers with the Black and White Impermanence.
Add her exceptional tyrant of a husband, a peerless martial artist and strategist, and together this pair of rule-breaking troublemakers could dominate politics and business, the underworld and the legitimate world, the past and the present, China and abroad.