[System, fleeing famine, widow, empress, no romance, enormous golden finger] Su Yao opens her eyes and finds herself a widow in labor on the road to escape famine, with four hungry children by her side.
A disastrous start? No problem. She binds to a Survival System. A spirit spring can keep her alive, and the shop can buy food.
Dividing the family, fighting bandits, treating epidemics, crushing evil cults... Su Yao leads the refugees to carve out a path to survival against all odds.
The lonely little boy she picks up along the way turns out to be the emperor's ninth prince.
While others beg for food as they flee famine, Su Yao clears land, farms, and builds a city. With modern knowledge and her System's cheat, she builds a realm amid the chaos of war, one that powerful nobles across the land covet. They make her choose between her life and her fortune. Since that's the choice, Su Yao will have both power and wealth, all the way to the throne.
One word, very good