The Gap in Farming Is Yours to Find [Western Fantasy]

The female lead's double standard:

Toward the nobility: If you can't keep up with those who farm, that's your problem. Your name goes in the bottom-right corner of the acquisition contract.

Toward her best friend: You want to be crowned? You... really mean it? All right, then~_~ (pulls out a crown)

Blurb:

Overworked office employee Yin Xi and her best friend are enjoying a hard-earned vacation when they unexpectedly transmigrate into a Western fantasy world as nobles. Her father's mistress is about to take over the household, bringing her illegitimate children with her.

Yin Xi, who usually watches palace-intrigue and household-battle dramas over meals, thinks: Is my script about crushing the illegitimate children and becoming the next duchess?

Instead, she gets eliminated from the household battle right from the start and is exiled to a poor border village to serve as its little lord.

She has to set off for her territory with her teary-eyed mother and a meager supply of goods.

And the best friend she's been unable to find has actually transmigrated as her own older sister, who's on her way to have her engagement broken off?

There are hidden dangers above, and nowhere to escape below.

How are they supposed to survive?

Isiyaya rolls up her sleeves and hefts a hoe. “We'll farm, of course. What else? If you'd told me from the start this was the story of Rubin Xi's exile, did you think I'd only ever watched one kind of show over dinner?”

Ding! The Heart of a Thousand Harvests: Farming System has been activated!

It specializes in reviving dead soil, reversing seed degradation, addressing low magical aptitude, and preventing commoners from going hungry.

As Isiya grows crops and becomes the richest person in Viran and a merchant magnate among the five great nations, she says: “Would you look at this mess? If you'd kept me at home to fight over the household back then, none of this would have happened, Your Grace.”

Isiya recalls the saying: While my neighbors stockpile grain, I stockpile guns. My neighbors are my granary.

When war breaks out in another world, the restless neighbors watch Isiya's grain production overwhelm the entire nation's, their eyes turning red with envy. But her best friend stands beside her. “Oh? Someone wants to challenge me to a fight?”

The neighbors: “Not at all, Lady Isiya. You've misunderstood. We've only come to learn from your advanced methods. Learn... that's all.”

It all begins with a border territory dismissed as something to exploit.

After Isiya finishes planting wheat, she plants vegetables. She makes sugar and presses oil. The farmland comes alive again under her care, and the workshops she builds usher in a new era.

The territory she thought would become a peaceful paradise eventually falls beneath the weight of a massive army.

Her best friend suddenly catches fire with ambition: “I will unite this dull, exploitative, polluted world.”

The female lead: “All right. Bring the new seeds, whose yields are already twice as high as before. The ten new military workshops are ready to begin production. Here's the list of forces within each nation that could join us. The recruitment ceremony is underway, and the Holy Light mages' medical support unit is assembled. I will personally stand behind you.”

Her best friend: “Didn't you say you only wanted to live quietly as a farmer, eating and drinking and admiring handsome men from every nation?”

The female lead: “We farmers are the most peace-loving people in the world, okay?”

So anyone who won't let us eat and sleep in peace is an enemy of us farmers!

The men of the various nations in this story: No idea. I'm too busy being gorgeous and alluring.

Content warnings: There are many vignettes about minor characters, with a light ensemble feel. The main plot is Western fantasy farming and management in a low-magic world. The female lead changes the world's balance of power through farming, management, and infrastructure alone. Her best friend handles most of the struggle for supremacy. There will be a little otome-game-style plot, and the male lead will be revealed at the end. The female lead and her best friend are each other's closest family and strongest business partners.

Theme: Antiwar, antiwar, antiwar, say the farmers.