[Famine and Natural Disasters] [No System or Pocket Dimension] [No Romance] [Building a Business from Nothing] [Making a Fortune] [Mother-in-Law Story] [Street-Smart Commerce] After transmigrating into a famine, where she goes hungry nine times in three days, Yu Yao can put up with it. She can even just about accept becoming a forty-year-old woman with six children.
But the original owner had lived a miserable life. Her in-laws and elder brother- and sister-in-law bullied her and her children, who had no one else to rely on, making her children take the blame. She lost her reputation and her chance to study, and now she was expected to shoulder a huge debt for her unreliable younger brother-in-law. Yu Yao couldn't put up with that.
She quickly split from the family and cut ties with them, outwitted the creditors, and saved her son's life. Then she led her whole family into learning how to do business. By a happy accident, she started inserting blatant ads into storybooks, collecting seeds, and building a fortune with health tea.
At long last, she paid off the gambling debt and began to see hope for the future. But then a locust plague wiped out the county's entire harvest, and overnight the land was littered with starving corpses. Yu Yao took an unconventional approach and opened a slimming salon in the middle of the famine. While the refugees laughed at her, she comfortably raked in silver. Only then did everyone realize that this woman who refused to follow the usual path had become immensely wealthy.
While others scraped by on bran and wild greens, her family ate meat and made money. She didn't forget to give her fellow merchants a helping hand, either, leading the villagers out of hunger and toward prosperity!
