When Chu Suining opens her eyes, her parents have just been buried, the clan head is demanding their fields, the rice jar holds only a handful of old rice, and her three little brothers are crying with hunger.
She is a botanist and mechanical engineering PhD from the apocalypse, and she was born with incredible strength. When the clan head’s son tries to steal their ox, she flips him with one hand, then hoists a three-hundred-jin stone mill and smashes the threshold. “Who says a woman can’t run a household?”
No food? She takes her third brother into the mountains and uses the System to improve seeds, growing sweet cabbages in fifteen days, the best harvest in sixty years. Grain merchants drive down her prices? She chops up cabbages in the street for people to taste, and sells out at eight coins a jin. Someone scatters lime to burn her seedlings? She keeps watch all night, catches the culprit, and drags them to the ancestral hall to demand compensation.
From then on, she uses her knowledge to outclass ancient farming methods, her strength to crush every injustice, and her wits to trample everyone who looks down on a woman just because she is widowed. From three mu of poor farmland to supplying grain merchants across the country, from being condemned for “bewitching the people with sorcery” to being personally named the “Great Agricultural Master of All Under Heaven” by the emperor.
At fifteen, she took hold of more than three mu of land. She took responsibility for her three brothers’ futures and the people’s food supply. Thirty-five years later, when she finally let go, an entire realm rested in her palm.
