I Transmigrated as the Dutiful Son, and Wiped Out an Entire Household

[Ancient farming + transmigration + daily life] [The pacing is slow at first, but it gets much better once the protagonist’s outlook changes]

A top agent unexpectedly transmigrates into the body of the second son of a farming family in an ancient world. He now has a wife and twin daughters, too. He plans to settle down and enjoy the rural life he’s always dreamed of: a loving wife, children, and a warm bed.

Unfortunately, his original father doesn’t care for him, and his mother doesn’t love him. They treat him like a workhorse, while his wife is saddled with endless chores every day. The mother and daughters are the family’s scapegoats, always hungry and often beaten and berated.

Chen Yuhua turns filial piety into a tool of self-defense, but his father uses it as an excuse to claim he isn’t his biological son and throws the whole family out with nothing.

Chen Yuhua has a transmigration perk: a huge supermarket. He sells the goods inside to raise money, builds a house with blue bricks and tiled roofs, and constructs a high-lift waterwheel.

The clan is oppressed by the Cui family, and it even has an elder from outside the clan who deliberately targets him, thinking he’s an easy mark. Suspecting the Cui family sent the assassins who are supposed to kill him on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, he wipes out every adult male in the outsider elder’s family overnight. Then he uses the assassins’ bodies to stage a fake crime scene and wrests the iron mine back from the Cui family.

The county magistrate sees him as a simple farmer and claims credit for his achievements. Chen Yuhua sneaks into the county office in the middle of the night, kills the corrupt magistrate, and empties his treasury.

He takes on disciples, does business, and builds up his power. At first, all he wanted was an easier life, but he ends up on the path to dominion.