When Famine Strikes the Fields, I Carefully Plot a Way to Survive

[Fleeing Famine in a Chaotic Age + Career-Driven Heroine + Women’s Awakening + Love of Country and People + Service to the People + No Romance + Political Intrigue + Comeback + Not a Saintly Heroine + Slow-Burn Story + No System or Portable Space]

“In this world, a woman’s struggle to survive is like walking on thin ice.”

“Then let us set a raging fire beneath that ice.”

The comeback story of a famine refugee who becomes a female official on the northern frontier: from simply staying alive to making a life worth living. Watch her cut through every obstacle and bloom along the way.

After transmigrating into the body of a ten-year-old village girl during a famine, Zhao Qinghe only wants to keep her family alive.

The day she wakes, she has a “prophetic” dream.

In the dream, locusts blot out the sky, the land is littered with corpses, her parents die horribly, and her sisters are scattered. Using her modern knowledge, she persuades her family to stockpile grain and head south.

At last, the family manages to find a sliver of hope

But word of the “Dream Maiden” spreads far and wide.

Bandits and marauders pursue them relentlessly, while the wealthy and powerful grow eager to make their move.

Underworld organizations close in at every turn, and the court watches them hungrily.

She follows old roads and pushes through the mountains, all just to stay alive.

Who could have guessed there’d be no escape? A handsome man in fine robes smiles gently.

“Either come with me, or watch your ‘prophecy’ get your whole family killed.”

With no way back, she throws herself into the game, turns the tide, plans every move, and writes a life of splendor.