[Farming + winning back the mother after she’s gone + best friends transmigrate together + family life + running a business + comedy]
Xu Manzhu transmigrates into her best friend’s novel as a dreadful peasant woman:
She’s been married to her husband for thirteen years and has given birth to a son and three daughters, all while stripping her own family bare for his sake!
Her brothers have gone hungry and cold because of her, and were forced to sever all ties with her!
She even planned to sell her own daughter to please her husband.
Xu Manzhu did it all without complaint, determined to take the last grain of rice from her family, all so her husband could become a low-ranking official in the county.
Then she discovers that for all thirteen years, she was only a stand-in for her cousin!
On a dark, windy night, her husband’s first love returns to the village. He climbs into her bed in the middle of the night:
“I was catching a cat in bed.”
Even her own son despises the scar on her face and helps his father’s first love drive her away.
Fine, then!
She’s done being a stand-in! She doesn’t want her son anymore!
And her husband? He can go to hell!
She takes her three daughters back to her family and awakens the Spirit Liquid System!
The eels she sells restore men’s virility! The sweet potatoes she grows have a hidden secret!
The only star anise tree in the entire country grows in her backyard!
The most profitable businesses all bear the name Xu Manzhu.
With her guidance, her family of more than a dozen people grows rich and earns noble titles, her hapless best friend who transmigrated with her finds success, and all three daughters marry into wealthy families!
The entire village prospers with her, enjoying delicacies from land and sea at every meal.
Wait a minute.
She’s only been farming, so why is the emperor kneeling and calling her the empress mother?!
Now her son, who chose a stepmother, begs with red eyes: “Mother, I don’t want a stepmother anymore. Please don’t send me away.”
Her ex-husband, who chose his first love, kneels in remorse. “Can we start over?”
Hah!
Go on eating your gruel made from wild greens!
Despite being put off by the title of the book, the plot is quite down-to-earth and a bit humorous. I like the heroine's youngest daughter Xu Xingxing!
I think it's very cool and very funny.