The Tale of Maid Xiaotao’s Flight from Famine in Troubled Times

At the age of six, Xiaotao was sold by her parents to a human trafficking agency in exchange for a plot of land. In the squalid confines of the agency, she seized every opportunity to learn survival skills while holding onto her innate kindness.

When a sudden natural disaster struck, she fled famine across a thousand miles and, with her ordinary origins, turned her fate around—from a refugee girl to the virtuous wife of a scholar who passed the imperial examinations, rewriting the destiny of a woman from the lowest rungs of society!

(No time travel, no rebirth, no cheat abilities; not a power fantasy, but an ensemble narrative. Setting: Fictional historical backdrop.)