Female Lead: Su Wanqing
Gentle and clever, deft and capable, content to keep her head down and stay alive
She transmigrates into the body of a low-ranking concubine who is unloved, has no powerful family, and was framed and sent to the Cold Palace
Golden finger: a pastoral space (farming, livestock, a spirit spring, and storage)
No palace scheming, no cruelty, no harming others. She only wants to eat her fill, save money, and live in peace
Male Lead: Xiao Jingyuan
A young emperor, aloof and restrained, devoted to governing and caring for his people, and uninterested in women
Cold and self-controlled at first, but later devoted exclusively to the female lead
Upright values, not brutal, with no taste for bloodshed
Su Wanqing transmigrates into the most miserable abandoned consort in the imperial palace. From the start, she is sent to the Cold Palace, where she lacks food and clothing and nearly freezes and starves to death.
Luckily, she comes with a super pastoral space. Its black soil is endlessly fertile, and its sweet spring water boosts the harvest.
While everyone else waits to die in the Cold Palace, she gets to work there:
Growing vegetables, raising chickens and fish, making honey and snacks, and filling the granary to the brim!
She turns the Cold Palace's shabby courtyard into thousands of acres of fertile farmland. There are more greens than she can eat, and the rooms are piled high with fruits and melons.
She only wanted to farm quietly, stay alive, and enjoy a peaceful retirement. But her food is so delicious and her produce so good that the aroma drifts out of the Cold Palace.
The aloof, unfeeling emperor who is uninterested in women starts climbing over the wall every night to mooch a meal!
The first time: "Your Majesty, these greens... are a hundred times better than the Imperial Kitchen's."
The second time: "I shall spend the night in the Cold Palace."
The third time, every consort in the palace is stunned:
Wasn't she an abandoned consort? How did she become the most favored woman in the Six Palaces?!
Su Wanqing is bewildered: I only wanted to get rich through farming. I didn't want to become the most favored woman in the harem!
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Lighthearted and healing throughout, with no angst or darkness
A wholesome golden finger: farming in a space, with nothing supernatural or paranormal
Upright values: prosperity through hard work, kindness, and self-sufficiency
Sweet romance + daily life + delicious food + getting rich
Go ahead, Chinese people don't lie to Chinese people. It's so good. This is the first novel I've read.