Transmigrating to the Primitive Wilderness: I’m No Damsel in Distress

Lin Xi is a sweet, gentle history student at A University, a delicate flower who is even afraid of killing a chicken. But when she touches a fossilized beast bone in a museum, she is swept into a rift in space-time and tumbles into the perilous Beast World Continent.

When she wakes, she is lying in Qing Teng Valley, a place ravaged by floods. Its people are a marginal tribe, bullied by powerful clans and reduced to the old, the weak, and the infirm. They are all weak beast types, such as rabbits, deer, and sheep. Lin Xi is a "coreless one" who cannot even transform into a beast, and is regarded as "walking rations." At first, she hides in a cave, hugging her knees and crying. She trembles at the sight of beastmen with claws and fangs, and scrapes by on the wild fruit her people share with her. She is a genuine "parasitic flower."

Then winter draws near, and the last of the valley's food is stolen by the bear-beastmen of the neighboring Black Rock Tribe. The cubs are so hungry they can only whimper weakly. The rabbit-beast grandmother who usually protects Lin Xi breaks her leg trying to get back a piece of dried meat. In that moment, Lin Xi looks at her calloused hands, worn from gathering firewood and scraping hides for the tribe, and suddenly understands: crying won't solve anything. In this savage land, weakness is a sin.

She starts "acting sweet and clever." She gives a timid smile to the beastmen who come looking for trouble, then secretly uses the "trap principles" she learned in history class to set simple tripwires around the tribe, leaving Black Rock thieves bruised and battered when they come to steal food. She says, "I can't do anything," while secretly memorizing the valley's terrain and using her geography knowledge to find a hidden spring, claiming, "The mountain god guided me." When she sees the tribe digging the ground by hand to plant root vegetables, she "doesn't...