A Natural Disaster Strikes from the Start: I Lead My Family to Victory with My Wits

[Natural disasters + fleeing famine + hard mode + no space or System + highly intelligent heroine + no romance]

Su Wantang, a master's student in geology, transmigrates into the past and finds herself in a hellish situation from the start: floods and breached dams, landslides, and rampant disease.

She has no magical spring or space, no System to stockpile supplies, and no lucky-charm physique. All she has is her frail fifteen-year-old body, a family of four with the elderly and infirm, and the knowledge in her head about geology, hydrology, and climate cycles.

While the whole village waits for the imperial court to provide disaster relief, she has already predicted that devastating floods will be followed by severe drought, then locust plagues, and that winter will arrive two months early.

While refugees kill each other over half a cake of bran, she gets her family ahead of everyone else: finding caves, locating water, stockpiling medicinal herbs, and weaving cloth for salt. In a year of famine, she carves out a way to survive against all odds.

Later, someone asks: You're a fisherman's daughter. How did you survive to the end of hard mode?

Su Wantang weighs the hatchet in her hand. By being one step ahead of the disasters.