She fell asleep in the library and woke up choking on cold river water in 1970—inside the body of a bullied fourteen-year-old whose parents are dead and whose grandmother wants her gone. Laure Kelley remembers the next forty years: the Cultural Revolution, the coming reform, the markets that will explode—and she also woke up with three impossible advantages: a hidden pocketed space, a spring that produces fresh water, and a small basin that quietly multiplies supplies. Alone, hungry, and surrounded by cruelty, she turns knowledge into action: she exposes a bully, takes a house that was meant for another, plants the first vegetable garden the village ever saw, and turns petty survival into the first strikes of a plan to protect her siblings and build a life ahead of history. No slow rebuilding. Every chapter pushes Laure into a fight, a clever grab, or a reveal that humiliates an enemy and hooks the reader for more. By the time the county knows her name, she’s already rewritten one family's fate—and made a list of every person who will owe her in the decade to come.

25 Chapters