By Pai Kit Fai
An epic, heart-wrenching tale of a mom and daughter's trip to their destiny.
Lotus toes. He might supply his daughter the dainty toes of a courtesan. this could increase her good looks and her rate, making her destiny shine like a brand new coin. He smiled to himself, pouring clean tea. And it can cease her from operating away…
When the younger concubine of an outdated farmer in rural China provides beginning to a daughter known as Li-Xia, or "Beautiful One," the kid turns out destined to develop into a concubine herself. Li refuses to undergo her destiny, outwitting her father's orders to bind her toes and escaping the silk farm with an English sea captain. Li takes her first steps towards pleasing her mother's goals of changing into a scholar--but her ultimate triumph needs to be left to her daughter, Su Sing, "Little Star," in a trip that might take her from distant mountain refuges to the perils of Hong Kong at the eve of global conflict II.
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