A Woman Needs Neither a Husband nor Heaven to Hold Up Half the Sky

[Farming] [Feel-Good Revenge, Face-Slapping and Punishing Scum] [Cruel Mother-in-Law and Lazy Husband Get Their Comeuppance]

In her previous life, she devoted herself heart and soul to serving her husband's family and handed over her own family's secret recipe, only to be insulted as a woman who could not bear a son, have her dowry stolen, and die of cold and hunger in a ruined temple. So all a woman's accomplishments count as a man's, and her sacrifices deserve to be trampled on?

Reborn at fifteen, back at the moment she was being pressured to marry, Su Qinghe flips the table: "You want to steal my secret recipe? The Wang family has a nerve thicker than the bottom of a cooking pot!"

Feudal etiquette? The Three Obediences and Four Virtues? Pure bullshit!

She brings her Golden Ear Rice and her Cloudglow Dyeing skills, clears land, grows crops, and establishes a women's cooperative.

One by one, she face-slaps the cruel mother-in-law, lazy husband, and gambling-addicted younger brother-in-law who bullied her in her previous life, dragging them down from wealthy households and back into the mud!

She also brings together her abused sister-in-law, the girl forced into marriage, and the widow bullied for being alone, and they build a business as a team. They keep the money they earn and give back every insult on the spot!

Why should women have to depend on men?

Why should the fruits of their labor belong to their husband's families?

Su Qinghe is determined to break these rotten rules and show the girls of the Great Jing Dynasty:

With their own two hands, they can grow Golden Ear Rice and hold up the whole sky!

Later, women's cooperatives spread across the nation, and the laws were rewritten for women. The former punching bag became a noblewoman whom everyone revered, the Heroic Lady Commandery Princess. Who could have imagined that the farm girl once mocked for being "unvirtuous" would grow up to become