In a Famine Year, My Neighbors Chew Tree Bark While Even My Dog Gets Pork Trotters

[Dual transmigration + multiple heroines + decisive and ruthless + lighthearted and witty + farming and building an empire]

The Great Yong dynasty has suffered two years of drought.

Chen Mo is a poor scholar born to a concubine, with three dilapidated huts and barely enough to eat. The principal wife’s family wants him to starve to death so they can seize his land, while his father-in-law regrets the marriage and insists on foisting a sickly concubine-born daughter on him. His fourteen-year-old younger sister is nearly beaten to death trying to trade for a bite of meat for him.

Just as the whole village is waiting to laugh at him, he awakens the Dual-World Portal System, allowing him to travel between Great Yong and the modern world.

His other identity? The sole heir to Jiangcheng Group, with assets worth tens of billions.

Chen Mo: “I’ll come clean. No more pretending. I’m a big spender!”

His dying sister is saved by a top modern medical team, and he cures his ailing wife with a few bottles of Western medicine.

While others can barely survive the winter, the Chen family has central heating and hot pot at every meal.

While others sell their children and the land is littered with starving corpses, the Chen family builds a mansion, buys maids, and becomes a local power.

Whiskey for friends, Remingtons for wolves.

…

Chen Mo watches his sister practicing martial arts. “You’re about to become a princess. You can’t spend every day fighting.”

“Brother, I want to open up my Ren and Du meridians…”

“All right, all right. Next time we’re back in Jiangcheng, we’ll get you a minimally invasive surgery to do it!”

Chen Mo looks at his wife. “You can’t spend all day watching that tablet. You’ve watched Empresses in the Palace eight times and The Story of Minglan five times…”

Su Xiaowan rolls her eyes at him. “As the lady of the house, if I don’t learn a few tricks, how am I supposed to manage this family?”