[A royal flush from the start, with the System in hand, she rules the land through famine!]
[Famine + System + a wicked mother-in-law’s redemption + the whole family’s comeback + face-slapping the worst of the worst]
She hadn’t even swallowed her celebratory champagne before she woke up to a bowl of watery gruel mixed with bran!
Su Mai had transmigrated from a domineering CEO who rang the opening bell to a vile, universally despised mother-in-law in a famine-stricken age.
The good news: her mind was still sharp. The bad news: all her family had left were three foolish sons, one daughter, and a daughter-in-law who was already pregnant.
Just as the whole village waited for the Chen family to starve to death, Su Mai looked at the dead grass covering the mountains and smiled.
[Ding! Famine Survival System activated!]
[Premium bitter lettuce detected! System buyback price: 15 coins per jin.]
[Wild shepherd’s purse detected (rare)! System buyback price: 20 coins per jin.]
[Ding! Funds credited to your account. Would you like to exchange them for Wuchang rice?]
From then on, Su Mai went on a wild shopping spree!
While everyone else chewed tree bark, she snagged a roast chicken from the System Shop;
while others sold their sons and daughters, she exchanged points for a [miracle medicine to protect the pregnancy] for her daughter-in-law;
even the wicked mother-in-law who cursed her every day was won over by a bowl of millet porridge and became her number-one enforcer!
Villager A: “Hadn’t the Chen family run out of food? Why does it smell like meat at their place every day?”
Villager B: “I saw Su Mai grinning at a pile of weeds, and then... she had a roast chicken in her hand?!”
Su Mai: “In this famine, I make the rules, and I am the granary!”
