[Ancient setting + farming + transmigration + calm, sharp-witted economics PhD heroine x kind and beautiful county magistrate + light ensemble cast + infrastructure building + warm family + career-focused]
Lin Yalan transmigrates into the legitimate daughter of the Prime Minister’s residence, a woman everyone schemes against and who doesn’t have long to live.
To survive, she sets her sights on the man who saved her life.
Her benefactor is handsome, honest, and pure-hearted. He’s also a county magistrate about to be sent away to take up his post.
They’re on the verge of starting a new life.
But the court is vicious, and sends them straight to a desolate, impoverished region abandoned by the whole nation, where no one wants to go!
Her beautiful husband finally admits, looking aggrieved, that he only got his jinshi degree by luck and knows nothing about governing a county or its people.
With no other choice, Lin Yalan rolls up her sleeves and puts her economics PhD to work.
To the east, she develops the coastal fishing and salt industries.
To the west, she clears the wasteland and plants medicinal herbs, then extracts tung oil.
To the south, she cultivates the red earth and grows unique tropical specialties.
The northern lands are bitterly cold and won’t grow a single grain, so she turns them into the Central Plains’ most sought-after source of high-end luxury goods!
As she works, her enemies somehow all meet their ends, and she becomes one of the new emperor’s most trusted ministers.
