Strong female lead + farming + power struggles + ensemble cast + love of country and family + wish fulfillment + alternate history
I became Xiang Xiang, the legendary Lady Luxiang.
It's the wedding night from the start.
Aicui, the chieftain of Shuixi, coughs blood and is on the brink of death.
Thirty thousand Ming troops are at the border.
The tribal chiefs draw their blades and want to sacrifice me to bless the troops.
I look down at the backpack I brought with me from the modern world.
Inside is just one bag of potatoes.
I say, "These things yield eight dan per mu."
The hall full of chieftains bursts out laughing.
Three months later, the potatoes are ripe, and Shuixi survives.
The Commander of the Guizhou Military Commission wants to kill me.
The general leading the southern campaign demands grain from me.
Zhu Yuanzhang sends me a secret imperial edict.
I build roads, smelt iron, make lime, and construct waterwheels.
Potatoes spread across Yunnan and Guizhou.
The grain routes reach across the entire southwest.
They call me a Han woman, a gift, a wife.
In the end, they call me the ruler of the southwest.
But all I want is to crouch by the stove and carve a stone.
