After falling into the water, Pan Yao became Wu’s little daughter, Lai Di.
Lai Di, Lai Di –just hearing the name, you know this family values sons over daughters.
Before she could even sharpen her metaphorical knives and bravely battle her feudal, backward parents, she was sent to live with her aunt in the countryside.
There, she found a small, dilapidated temple. Inside lived a half-blind old Daoist priest who, pointing at her, burst into laughter.
“Yao Bone! Unbelievable! To think that in my lifetime, I would actually see a Yao Bone!”
A Yao Bone is a bone of immortality, also known as the “Entering Star Bone.” Daoist belief holds that someone with this bone formation in their chest is destined for immortality.
Pan Yao looked down at her own flat chest, and it dawned on her.
So, she was living out a village spirit medium’s script, after all.
