To Stay Alive, I Became an Overachiever in Ancient Times

In a single day, Xia Ying, a lecturer at an agricultural university, transmigrates into a child bride who has endured years of abuse in a village in the Great Sheng dynasty. After suffering at the hands of her mother-in-law, Madam Zhou, for years, she spots some moldy mugwort on a rainy night just before she is to be sold to a decrepit old man. An idea strikes her: a plan to stay alive. This story has no romance, no System, and no golden finger. All it has is a mind focused entirely on her career and a technical approach.