Summary
In Xiutu, no one can keep a coin—or escape the illnesses an immortal’s beloved refuses to bear. Eleven-year-old Nanzhi has never eaten her fill, yet her father insists the Immortal Lord is merciful. Then Lady Ruyi demands a new face and sets her sights on Nanzhi’s pregnant mother. Nanzhi has promised her father she will not kill people. Immortals, however, are another matter. Beneath a starving city, an old power waits to awaken, and the people who have spent their lives praying to heaven may finally discover who has really been protecting them.