[Cultivation + farming + late 1990s + getting rich]
Qu Yijiu, a mere hundred-year-old Nascent Soul cultivator in the cultivation world, was entrusted with her mother's dying wish and sent back to Blue Star, her mother's birthplace.
After she transmigrated, not only did she become younger, but her cultivation took a nosedive too.
Fortunately, she lost years, not wisdom. When her strength fell short, opportunities would make up the difference.
On the very first day she reunited with her uncle, she spotted an opportunity with her keen eye and quietly seized it, putting caution above all else.
And so, an unpleasant rumor began circulating in Qu Family Village:
They said the Qu family's eighteen-year-old niece, who everyone thought had died as a child, was cursed by heaven:
Her father didn't love her, her mother was dead, and she wasn't quite right in the head.
She took out a lease on a barren mountain that had been deserted for over fifty years,
and even dared to live there all alone, on land others would go thirty miles out of their way to avoid.
She would vanish for ten days or half a month at a time.
The villagers all thought she'd died on the mountain.
The bolder ones, unwilling to let it go, tried to investigate. Some were scared off, while others ended up in a sorry state.
Meanwhile, Qu Yijiu was happily keeping to herself amid the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity she'd stumbled upon, cultivating her way to immortality while planning her grand fortune-making scheme...