Why Settle for a Marquis’s Estate When Farming Offers Better Value?

Ning Wutong completed the mission assigned to her by the Space-Time Bureau and earned a chance to be reborn. Given another life, with her transmigration skills maxed out, all she wanted was to lie flat and be a happy slacker. But then spring thunder roared, and she had a dream. In the dream, her father, who had been forcibly conscripted, didn’t die on the battlefield. Instead, he lost his memory. He went on to distinguish himself with great military service and was granted the title of Marquis Changying. But her deadbeat father enjoyed high rank and a generous stipend in Chang’an, took another wife, and never once thought of the wife and children back in the countryside, who were so poor they nearly had to eat grass roots. A year later, her scumbag father would regain his memory, return home in glory, and bring Wutong’s family to the marquis’s residence. But the current Marchioness of Changying, Madam Zhang, was the daughter of the Grand Tutor. She would never tolerate two mistresses in the marquis’s household, let alone agree to take concubine’s status beneath a country woman. In the dream, although Wutong’s mother, Qin, was the first wife, she was timid and meek. She voluntarily gave way and recognized Madam Zhang as the principal wife. Wutong and her siblings went from legitimate children to illegitimate ones. From the moment they entered the marquis’s residence, the whole family was doomed to a tragic end. Wutong woke from the dream, weighed down with sorrow. Looking at her weak, inexperienced mother, her simple-minded little brother who spent all day chasing cats and dogs, and her frail, elderly grandmother, she knew this family would fall apart without her! With no choice, Wutong rolled up her sleeves and hit the books. If the work didn’t kill her, she’d work herself to the bone. She studied and studied until she became the richest person in the realm! Her scumbag father can step aside. Nothing beats lie-flat farming! 1. Primarily a farming and prosperity story, with a male lead. 2. The heroine won’t marry in the main story. If she does, it’ll be in an extra, though there may not be one. 3. The setting is very loose, with lots of invented details. Don’t overthink it. History buffs, please steer clear.