short series

The Lucky Girl You Can't Afford to Offend

share time: 2026-01-14 06:02:18

Xiao Tang from the west end of the village had been called a “husband-killing disaster” for over a decade—even her fiancé’s family of three years kicked her out on the eve of the wedding. But that evening, the desperate Mrs. Shen, head of the declining Shen family, knelt at her door with all their savings—turns out, the Shens had fortune-told that only she, a “luck-bringing child”, could save their family. After marrying into the Shen household, Xiao Tang became a “living lucky charm”: barren fields suddenly grew golden rice, dying shops landed big orders, and even the Shen young master, who’d been bedridden for five years, could call her “wife” while leaning on a crutch! Neighbors who once spat at her now crowded her door begging for a “blessing touch”, and the Zhang family’s patriarch even brought betrothal gifts to beg for reconciliation. But no one knew—every time Xiao Tang brought luck to the Shens, the red string on her wrist faded a little—that’s the cost of her “blessings”: her own lifespan...

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