[Strong female lead + no CP + ordinary-person cultivation + farming + alchemy + cutthroat competition]
Yun Jiang died at three in the morning in a library. When she opened her eyes, she had become the least welcome girl in Li Family Village.
When she was nine, her family tried to sell her to pay for medicine, putting a price of eight taels of silver on her life. She escaped on a snowy night and ran into the Qingyun Sect's recruitment drive. With three spiritual roots of low purity, she was assigned to the Alchemy Peak as an outer-sect sweeper.
A monthly allowance of two spirit stones. A cramped room. Scrubbing pill furnaces and dumping medicinal dregs.
No problem. She was top of her class in management and economics at a top university in her previous life. She can compete just as hard in a new field.
Starting with the first batch of pills she refines from discarded medicinal dregs, she improves recipes, saves spirit stones, buys a pill furnace, and sets up a supply chain. Three months later, she takes first place in the inner-sect selection. From outer-sect laborer to alchemy grandmaster, she will refine a pill that breaks every rule.
She died at three in the morning in her previous life. This time, she will live to see the sunrise.
