I Transmigrated into a Widow and Turned My Family's Fate Around

Thirty-year-old urban office worker Xu Wei stayed up late binge-reading a farming novel called A Lament for the Poor. In the story, a widow, Madam Wang, lost her husband at thirty and struggled in poverty with her two children and elderly in-laws, until famine left the whole family dead of starvation. As she read, Xu Wei grumbled, “They’ve all got two hands and two feet. If they’d just used their brains a little, they wouldn’t have ended up like this!” But when she woke up, she had become the unfortunate widow Madam Wang herself.

Looking at the thatched hut with bare walls, her gaunt seven-year-old twins, a boy and a girl, and her worried in-laws, Xu Wei rolled up her sleeves. “Starting today, we’re going to live differently!”