I Wanted to Cultivate, but They Forced Me to Sign a Contract of Servitude

[Cultivation without spiritual roots] + [Traditional xianxia] + [No System] + [Self-interest] + [Farming] + [Slow burn] + [Karma]

With a single awakening from a dream, he transmigrated to the Great Shun dynasty, an era where people preyed on one another. He had only wanted to become a small-time merchant and find himself a young wife, but he was dragged into the dark world of officialdom. The emperor was incompetent, and natural and man-made disasters struck in quick succession. Famine and war ravaged the land year after year, while the rich feasted behind vermilion gates and the poor froze to death by the roadside.

After witnessing the suffering of humanity, he turned to the mountains to cultivate the Dao, unaware that this was only the beginning...