I Found a Down-and-Out Fake Heiress Before Fleeing the Famine

[Dual female leads + alternate history + farming and famine flight + ensemble cast + same-sex marriage + doting romance + childbirth] Shi Shuran had lived as a county magistrate’s daughter for seventeen years. When the true legitimate daughter returned to her place, Shi Shuran was sent back to her birth parents’ home in a tiny sedan chair. She pushed open the broken door. Spiderwebs covered the house, and the grass on her parents’ graves was already three feet high. The whole village expected the pampered young lady to collapse in tears, but she simply rolled up her sleeves and began pulling weeds. Mu Jinzhao, from the east end of the village, watched her all afternoon. As soon as she got home, she tugged at her mother and said, “I want to marry her.” Everyone laughed at the foolish Mu family for marrying a fake phoenix who couldn’t even lift a shoulder. That is, until drought came and the dead lay everywhere. Mu Jinzhao knocked out the refugees trying to steal their food with a single punch, while Shi Shuran used the medical skills she had learned at the county magistrate’s residence to save the whole village. On the road fleeing famine, they went from having nothing to reclaiming land and building homes, becoming the backbone of the refugee camp. Later, a wandering Daoist priest gifted them a pair of fertility pills. Mu Jinzhao snatched one. “I’m the stronger one. I’ll carry the baby!” Shi Shuran seized it back and tucked it into her robe, then swallowed it with warm water that night. Nine months later, Mu Jinzhao held their exquisitely beautiful daughter and sobbed uncontrollably. “Shuran, you scared me to death...”