After Becoming a Widow, I Got Rich Through Farming

[My new novel, After Leaving the Industry to Run a Farm Stay, I Went Viral, is now available next door. Come check it out!]

1.

After transmigrating, Su Jin became a young widow in the Dayu Dynasty. Her father didn't care for her, her stepmother didn't love her, and her mother-in-law's favoritism knew no bounds.

Her life was about to become impossibly difficult, but luckily, transmigration came with a golden finger.

Ding! Congratulations, player, you've obtained a beginner's cookbook.

Ding! Congratulations, player, you've received an "NPC's Gift." Your white weapon has been upgraded to a blue weapon.

Ding! Player's farming skill has reached level 2. Crop yield increased by 2%.

Su Jin rested her hoe on her shoulder and looked at the few mu of wasteland before her, smiling with satisfaction.

#When Life Becomes a Massive RPG#

#Everyone But Me Is An NPC#

#Even My Rolling Pin Is A Purple Weapon#

2.

She takes to farming and cooking alike. From street snacks to delicacies worthy of a grand restaurant, she can make it all. Within a year, the name "Fragrance from Beyond the Heavens" has spread across Yunzhou Province.

Life keeps getting better, and her unscrupulous stepmother and wicked mother-in-law both come crawling back to curry favor. Even her supposed husband, dead for over a year, returns.

Su Jin: Who are you?

Shen Rufeng: Wife, don't you recognize your husband?

She thought about it and decided he looked a little like the handsome man she'd flirted with a few days ago.

#Shock: My Supposed Husband Is A Close Aide To The Emperor#

#Farming Games Have A Romance Route Too#

#Reload! Reload!#

Reader's guide:

1. An alternate setting, completely made up. Historical accuracy enthusiasts, beware.

2. A slow-paced farming story, feel-good, with a powerful golden finger.

3. The male lead is reborn. He has very little presence early on, and what happens later depends on the female lead's mood.

After Leaving the Industry to Run a Farm Stay, I Went Viral:

[Goofy feel-good story, launching in December]

1.

Yu Mian is a C-list actress who has been in the business for five years. She has no future and no money prospects. Her company doesn't plan to renew her contract, her bandmates are all leaving, and her fans are so bored they might as well tap wooden fish. Only a handful of antis remain diligently posting nasty hashtags about her.

Anti: Daily check-in: Did #YuMianGetOutOfTheEntertainmentIndustry# happen today?

Yu Mian: I left. Don't miss me.

Anti: Heh. Retiring to go home and farm?

Yu Mian: ??? How did you know????

Antis and fans: ??????????

2.

A few months later, Yu Mian's farm stay, along with her reply to an anti's post, went viral.

Anti: A nobody like you is promoting yourself again?

Yu Mian: I'll pick 100 people and send each of them two jin of napa cabbage. No fan status required :p

Anti: … If you can get 100 reposts, I'll eat this monitor!

Three minutes later:

A business tycoon: Look at me! Pick me!

A famous director: Ahhhhh, me, me, me!

A top-tier star: Sis, pick me, pick me, pick me!

A frosty award-winning actress: Hurry and rig it for me, ahhhhh!

An actor who hasn't posted in six months: Reposted.

Antis and fans: ?????????

Yu Mian: Don't forget to eat the monitor.

3.

Yu Mian accidentally got bound to a card-drawing game that lets her draw cards featuring all sorts of long-vanished immortals.

An unscrupulous Earth God, an irritable Kitchen God, an introverted Calamity Star, a Marriage God who rejects marriage, a Water God who lives for joy, a Dream God who makes dreams come true...

Yu Mian: I really don't have a single drop left.

Theme: Work hard at life, start a business together, and build a prosperous life.