When she opens her eyes, the whole village is chewing tree bark.
Lin Xiaomai, a modern agricultural PhD from 2026, wakes from a nap to find she has become a "good-for-nothing wife" scorned by her husband's family during the great drought of 1973.
Her husband despises her for "failing to bear a son," the villagers call her a "jinx," and her brother-in-law is the village team leader, assigning her family the hardest, most exhausting jobs every day. The relief grain they receive is barely enough to make thin porridge for three days.
But Lin Xiaomai isn't worried. Because she has:
A secret space: a hundred mu of fertile fields and a spring of spiritual water.
Professional equipment: complete blueprints for a modern agricultural greenhouse facility.
A killer move: the complete technology for growing garlic scapes.
The moment she reaches into her sleeve and pulls out fresh garlic scapes, her former brother-in-law nearly pops his eyes out:
"H-How is this possible?!"
When a man tries to scheme against her garlic-scaping technology, she sneers, "Under modern patent law, you'll have to pay a hundred million first."
When the whole village tries to set her up with a new man, she cuts in, "If you want to court me, hand in a business plan for a garlic-scaping industry first!"
From growing the first garlic scape in a year of famine, to monopolizing the global supply chain for refrigerated garlic scapes, to stabilizing domestic prices through garlic-scaping exports and building up the country's strategic vegetable reserves...
Later, the United Nations gives her its Lifetime Achievement Award for Food Security.
And when the man who abandoned her years ago kneels at her door begging to get back together, her security guards line up shoulder to shoulder: "This lady's time is billed by the second. Please make an appointment first."
