[Famine + shop + pocket dimension + farming + strong female lead + raising children + a village widow’s path to becoming an empress]
Xiao Qian, a 21st-century female assassin, is betrayed by the teammate she trusts most during a mission and dies in a massive explosion.
When she opens her eyes again, she has become Tao Xiaoqian, a village woman in the Great Qing Dynasty.
A corner is missing from her family’s earthen-walled house. It’s bare and drafty, and the rice jar is completely empty. Even the mice won’t bother visiting.
Her two children are so hungry they cry beside the bed. One tugs at her arm, the other at her leg, shaking her until her vision goes dark.
According to the original owner’s memories, her husband was conscripted into the army five years ago and has not been heard from since.
Half a year ago, her brothers-in-law and their wives ganged up and persuaded her mother-in-law to separate her from the family. The village head assigned her this long-abandoned, dilapidated house to live in for the time being.
When the family split, everyone bullied her, a woman raising two children alone. She was nearly left with nothing. Only the children’s great-grandmother felt sorry for her great-grandchildren and secretly gave her a few jin of millet, but it wouldn’t last long.
The harvest is poor this year. It hasn’t rained for five or six months, the fields are dry, crops won’t grow, and rice prices have gone up.
With the household barely able to get by, the original owner had no choice but to weave day and night. After several sleepless nights, she worked herself to death.
When she opens her eyes again, the body now belongs to Xiao Qian, the 21st-century assassin.
As Tao Xiaoqian worries over her penniless household and two hungry children, she suddenly awakens the Shop System.
Rice: 2 copper coins per jin!
Flour: 3 copper coins per jin!
The shop has every kind of rice, flour, grain, and cooking oil!
She buys it all!
The assassin's time travel doesn't feel like that of an assassin; it's more like an ordinary person experiencing time travel. There's a marketplace where you can resell things, but he either doesn't know how to use it or has forgotten to.
It ended rather abruptly, but it was still quite good. 🙂🙂
Five stars! Keep up the good work, author!
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The content is good, but the ending, the rebellion, felt rushed, as it was written in only a few chapters. It would have been better if the later chapters had been expanded upon.
It's good, the story is fresh and innovative, and two episodes a day aren't enough!
It's so, so beautiful!
This book is very good.
Well, this assassin who transmigrated isn't very smart. He was alright at the beginning, but then... Author, you still need to work harder!
It's so incredibly beautiful 😊