I Become a Top Student on the Famine Road, and the Neighboring County Magistrate Comes to Mooch a Meal

[Transmigration, famine flight, farming, a peaceful daily life, a space with limited usefulness, no supernatural powers, no nasty villains]

Yu Ranqing, a graduate student in agricultural sciences, opens her eyes to find herself an orphan lying in a pile of corpses along an ancient road filled with refugees fleeing famine.

Other people’s golden fingers: a spirit spring and a thousand acres of fertile land.

Her useless space: it only unlocks in desolate wilderness!

"Everyone else is stockpiling food, while I’m stockpiling loneliness?" She rolls up her sleeves and gets to work.

She teaches refugees how to identify edible wild game, and they feast even in years of famine.

She introduces greenhouse farming to the ancient world, turning wild-vegetable porridge into a four-dish, one-soup meal.

While everyone else is still sleeping rough and braving the elements, smoke is already curling above her little valley home.

But what’s the deal with Magistrate Gu, who came to "deliver her reward"?

He has to show up in person to close a bandit case? Their static-electricity encounters make his ears turn red? In the end, he even puts his official seal in her hands:

"I offer myself to you, my lady. When will you come and take me under your command?"