Period Novel: The Background Character Only Wants to Make Money and Watch the Drama

If you're here for a fast-paced wish-fulfillment story, this one's not for you. It moves slowly.

No male lead, romance, or marriage.

Pocket-space farm + everyday life + occasional little adventures + earning money to buy a house

A heroine who grows over time: her knowledge, emotions, skills, and values gradually develop.

When the heroine first arrives in another world, she'll go through an adjustment period.

A woman who grew up without love wakes up and meets a group of people who treat her fairly well.

Since she has the means, she'll try every way she can to repay them.

For example, fronting money to raise pigs. (This may be a deal-breaker, so proceed with caution if it bothers you.)

Later, she realizes this could make people suspicious.

She gradually becomes much more cautious, stingy, and low-key, quietly watching the drama unfold.

The heroine's personality: On the surface, she's obedient, sensible, down-to-earth, meek, and easy to bully, always accepting whatever comes her way.

In truth, she's deeply guarded and bristling with defenses. Sometimes she's a social butterfly; other times, she's a socially anxious nobody who fades into the background.

The heroine, Xia Zhiqing, lived in her previous life in a family that subtly favored sons over daughters.

Her mother earned money to spend on her nephew and her uncle, yet wouldn't even buy her daughter a few properly fitting outfits.

Her father spent his earnings dressing himself up, but turned a blind eye when his wife wanted to buy a gold bracelet.

They did nothing but beat or scold their only child.

She felt wronged and thought she wasn't being sensible enough. She kept trying her best, but never received any affection in return.

She finally faced reality: She must have dug up her parents' graves in her previous life, only to be reborn as their punching bag and repay the debt in this one.

After graduating from college, she lived alone in rented accommodation for six years.

She escaped her suffocating family of origin.

Then she died unexpectedly while doing a good deed.

She arrived in the world of a book set in the 1960s with a pocket-space farm, living out her transmigration into the book while keeping her head down and staying out of trouble.

Her goals: Keep her special ability secret, integrate into the community, stay away from the male and female leads, earn money, watch the drama unfold, and heal herself.

The ending: Make money, buy a house, enjoy life, travel, and save for retirement.