Duan Lu has a secret.
Though she’s a woman, everyone in the village calls her “the Duan family boy” and says she’s lazy and good for nothing. No one knows that in her previous life, she earned a master’s degree in nutrition.
Disguised as a man, she thrives in the village: treating the sick, improving farm tools, and running an oil mill. She somehow manages to keep her crumbling family together.
Only two things give her a headache:
First, the poor scholar next door, Chai Fan.
Second, Ye Cuicui, the village’s most formidable young woman, who chases her every day demanding they get married. Duan Lu is so scared that she runs whenever she sees her.
Duan Lu thinks: As long as I hold out until Grandpa lets me live openly as a woman again, everything will be fine.
But she never gets that chance.
Her second uncle gambles away the family fortune, Young Master Lan brings men to collect the debt, and her grandfather is angered to death.
With his dying breath, her grandfather takes her hand and reveals a shocking secret.
Bearing a deep blood feud, she sets out for the capital.
