[Natural disasters + flight from famine + business + imperial examinations]
No System, no pocket dimension, no golden finger, and no transmigration or rebirth. An ordinary person’s growth, earned through sheer hard work.
Lu Ming was sold by her parents for ten taels of silver because her younger brother was about to be born.
Her greatest wish is to buy back her freedom and open a shop of her own. It would be even better if she could marry a man she loves who loves her in return, though she would be fine without getting married, too.
But life in this era is too hard. The shop she saved up to buy is gone, and disaster strikes. Even staying alive becomes a luxury. But Lu Ming refuses to believe her fate is set. Like a weed, she fights to survive wherever she finds herself.
And as she keeps living, people start chasing after her, demanding she give them a proper status.
(PS: Fleeing famine in the early chapters, farming in the middle, and a husband chasing his wife in the later chapters)
