When agricultural science PhD Lin Shu opens her eyes, she finds herself in a farming novel with a pocket dimension, as the female lead's foil: her cousin.
The female lead: reborn with a spiritual spring pocket dimension, she can grow anything with ease, leads her whole family to wealth, marries a prince, and reaches the pinnacle of life.
Lin Shu: her parents died young, her grandparents don't care for her, and she has a sickly younger brother. When the family splits up, all she gets is a thatched hut and a barren mountain where not even birds would land.
When the female lead sells vegetables watered with spiritual spring water for a fortune in town, Lin Shu is up on the mountain digging soil and analyzing its acidity and alkalinity.
When the female lead uses a miraculous ginseng from her pocket dimension to save a noble, Lin Shu is building a greenhouse and studying grafting techniques.
When everyone in the village praises the female lead as a lucky star sent from heaven and mocks Lin Shu for having ruined her mind with books and playing in the dirt all day... Lin Shu simply pushes up her nonexistent glasses. “Hmph. You know nothing about the power of modern agriculture.”
Later, the female lead's vegetable plot suffers an unprecedented locust plague, leaving her with no harvest at all.
Meanwhile, Lin Shu's barren mountain is covered with plump, abundant fruits and vegetables, as she combats pests with chili water and limewater, using physical pest control and scientific disaster prevention.
Later still, her off-season strawberries, improved hybrid rice, and cotton with double the yield... Lin Shu's name and her “mountain of gold” become famous across the land.
The relatives who once treated her with contempt come crying and begging her to share her advice.
The villagers who once mocked her line up to work on her farm.
Even the prince, the female lead's powerful husband, comes to her door in person, simply to buy a jin of fresh vegetables his soldiers can eat in winter.
“Miss Lin,” says the prince,
