While caring for the household, the girl constantly begged her father, hoping he could let go of his obsession with cultivating immortality and seeking the tao and come back to see her—even just once. She would have been content with that alone, but he never did... Faced with the girl's nearly desperate pleas, he seemed not to hear them at all, remaining obsessed only with Daoist magic.
The girl did not understand what this Daoist magic her father was so obsessed with actually was, or why it captivated him so deeply... deeply enough to abandon his job and his family...
And this... was not even what hurt her most. Before long... books about Daoist magic alone could no longer satisfy the girl's father. He decided to leave and seek immortals and the Tao.
And as though he had never had a daughter like her at all, he abandoned her without the slightest attachment, taking his luggage and leaving despite the girl's tearful pleas.
At that moment, the little girl, only a few years old... completely lost her last remaining family member. At the same time, she cried until she fainted and collapsed to the ground.
Her father was gone, leaving only the little girl, just a few years old, alone in this world.
Fortunately, when her father left, he did not take all the family's savings and left some behind. With that money, along with what she earned by selling many valuable things from the house, she could still live frugally... for several years.
But... even under the powerful legal order of modern times, there were dark corners, let alone... in ancient times.
In ancient times... even during the Tang Dynasty, few people could read. Many of them had no notion of what they could or could not do; there