Two Sides of He Xin: A Tough Country Bride's Fight to Survive the Famine

Tian Doudou, the youngest PhD at the Agricultural Sciences Institute, transmigrates to an alternate dynasty after an explosion in her lab. She wakes up as the stepmother of five children. Her husband has run off with his lover, her household owes the spring tax, and villagers suffering through famine have started gnawing on tree bark.

Her problems:

✓ Children so hungry they’re eating raw potatoes

✓ A mother-in-law who’s convinced “poison dragon eggs” will kill them all

✓ A village head waiting like a hawk to collect corvee grain

✓ Half a copy of Essential Techniques for the Common People, left behind by her mysteriously vanished, sexually unorthodox husband

She pulls the experimental data she hadn’t had a chance to record out of her pocket:

“Sweet potatoes that yield a thousand jin per mu? First things first, I have to keep this bunch of kids alive!”