[Transmigration + slow-burn progress + rising to success + face-slapping + inner-court intrigue + business]
Wen Liangyu, a modern-day workaholic, dies of overwork after pulling an all-nighter and transmigrates to ancient times. She becomes a poor little cabbage in Xinghua Village, orphaned and alone, and her greedy, wicked stepmother is going to sell her as a child bride to a dwarf in town.
As Wen Liangyu leaves on the matchmaker’s ox cart, everyone by the roadside sighs: The little Wen girl is such a sensible, filial child, but her life is just too hard. She’s struggled to survive under her stepmother since she was little, and now she’s been sold off. What a poor thing…
Who could have guessed that years later, the poor girl everyone once pitied would return in fine clothes and become the biggest topic of gossip in this small town?
Wen Liangyu: I didn’t land in the best circumstances this time. I have no one to lean on and no connections. I’ll just have to keep up a worker’s indomitable spirit!
After years of hard work, she builds a business with a group of friends and finally helps her younger brother enter officialdom, while ensuring her grandmother can enjoy her old age in peace.
As for Wen Liangyu herself, she rises from a country girl in a remote border town to the capital of Nanjing, where nobles and high officials gather, eventually becoming the foremost female official in the Southern Jing Kingdom.
It is a relatively slow-burning farming novel with good writing style and not many clichés. It is very suitable for reading when passing the time! I like to see the heroine working hard to get promoted step by step! 💕