Modern-day office drone Yan Wuyou transmigrates into the legitimate daughter of the Minister of Revenue. From the start, her concubine stepmother and half-sister frame her for having an affair with a peddler who sells sesame flatbreads, awakening a Heavenly Dao Melon-Growing System.
When the concubine's first scheme fails, she tries again, accusing Yan Wuyou of breaking an imperial glass goblet bestowed by the emperor. Her useless father returns home, doesn't bother to ask what happened, and takes her to the palace to beg forgiveness, then asks the young emperor to let him resign and return to his hometown.
The young emperor approves. The very next moment, the top scholar Yan Wuyou has been waiting three years for arrives and declares in front of the emperor that he wants to marry her.
The emperor asks him, "Are you betrothed?"
Surely a princess has taken a fancy to the top scholar. How could Yan Wuyou dare compete with a princess for him?
Besides, her useless father has resigned and is going home, so naturally she'll go with him. She can take her father's silver, the melon patch in her sea of consciousness, and find an honest, handsome, simple-minded young landlord back home. With an acre of melons to tend and the neighbors' gossip to entertain her, plus ten thousand mu of fertile land to provide food and drink, what could be better than spending her life lying flat, eating melons, and watching the drama?
But plans never keep up with change. The broken engagement, the return home, and the plan to avoid using her brain all go out the window before she's even finished a meal. I don't want to get involved in court intrigue, so what do I do when the sinister hands of political schemers keep chasing after me?
