Quando Ning Xin tinha dez anos, adquiriu acidentalmente um espaço especial, dando início a dias amargos em que era treinada por esse espaço como se fosse um animal. Até que o espaço foi ativado. Ela pegou um grampo de prata, colocou lá dentro e o espaço avaliou: valia mil taéis de prata. Comprou uma luminária de vidro do espaço, vendeu-a rapidamente no Pavilhão dos Tesouros e arrecadou dez mil taéis de prata. Uau, ficou rica de repente. Quando o ano de escassez chegou, não teve medo: Ning Xin tinha seu espaço, podia ir a qualquer lugar e sempre encontrava grãos e mantimentos, pois havia de sobra por lá. Desde que você trouxesse algum tesouro, podia trocar à vontade—ela trocava tudo o que quisesse.
When Ning Xin was ruthlessly expelled from the space, she could tolerate the sound of her two younger sisters snoring and grinding their teeth. The thunderous snores of her two younger brothers in the corner—she could endure that too. But the loving noises of her parents in the next room—those she simply could not bear. After all, she was still just a fifteen-year-old child.
She tiptoed to the door, agilely climbed over the courtyard wall, and sprinted toward the outskirts of the village. As she ran, she glanced up at the starry sky, estimating the time. If she ran to the county town and back, her parents would surely be done, and she could snatch a bit of sleep.
But today, she reached the county town two incense sticks earlier than usual. Standing beneath the city wall, Ning Xin gazed upward. She had come here many times, but had never dared to scale the wall. As an ordinary commoner, even though she fancied herself skilled in martial arts, she would never dare to break the law.
She did not dare—but someone else did.
A man dressed in black flew over from not far away, his feet tapping lightly as he stepped up the wall. In the blink of an eye, he landed atop the city wall and vanished from sight.
Ning Xin silently praised him in her heart, "What impressive skill."
One year in the space was equivalent to ten years outside. After being relentlessly trained by the space for five years, she now possessed the equivalent of fifty years of cultivation. She wondered if she could leap up there herself.
She took a deep breath, ga