I Make a Living by Gathering Seafood (Matriarchal Society)

The blurb for my upcoming novel, The Time Gate I Handed Over Made Me a Merchant, is below ↓↓↓

Blurb for this novel:

When Hai Zhen returned to her second life, she thought she would have to say goodbye to fine food and fine clothes and spend an ordinary life striving just to make ends meet with the lover she had wronged in her previous life. Then an unexpected gift from her hometown came crashing down from the sky.

[Ms. Hai Zhen, the Time-Space Mall System from Blue Star in the year 2321 invites you to join!]

Wait!

You said, from where?

[You can earn rewards simply by putting the seafood you catch up for sale!]

What? Could my long-awaited golden finger finally have arrived? Could this octopus fetch a fortune? (Instantly perks up.)

[You're mistaken. This is an economical fish species with no research value, and our scans show that it is abundant in your plane. The official recommended price is 20 coins per jin, equivalent to 4 copper coins.]

That's way too cheap!

Converted according to purchasing power, that's less than 10 yuan per jin! Wild octopus? Practically giving it away!

[Ms. Hai Zhen, as far as I know, readers these days don't like wish-fulfillment stories that make no sense.]

Just as Hai Zhen thought the only benefit of the Time-Space Mall was saving on shipping costs when selling things...

[Organic fertilizer recipes from Blue Star three hundred years ago, clearance sale! Pay up and they're yours!]

[Fishing techniques from Blue Star three hundred years ago, rock-bottom prices!]

[From Blue Star three hundred years ago...]

Hai Zhen, former regent and present-day fisherwoman in her second life: Buy, buy, buy! I'll take everything! I'll buy it all! Give me a bundle deal!

Hai Zhen: Not becoming regent in this life and instead leading the way in practical efforts to increase crop yields sounds pretty good too...

Note: This novel features male pregnancy.

Upcoming novel: The Time Gate I Handed Over Made Me a Merchant

Lin Zhen, who was forced to transmigrate every day, had a dream one day.

She dreamed she died in ancient times, a truly gruesome death!

After waking up, she made an important decision.

"Hello, does the country need someone to handle foreign relations in ancient times? I volunteer!"

After an investigation, it turned out to be a parallel world with highly overlapping resources. The only exception was money.

"Chief, our tests show that the currency used in that world contains a previously undiscovered new energy source."

From that day on, more and more goods were sent into the parallel world.

From fertilizer and cement to matches and soap, from cheap pencils and erasers to expensive pearls and jewelry...

Little by little, they began to fill every corner of life in the parallel world.

And so Lin Zhen brought the Yiwu Small Commodity Market to another world.

The only task the country gave Lin Zhen was to make money!

Years later, on the day Lin Zhen got married in ancient times,

"Husband, did you know? I have a family back home too. My family is my country."

Everyone with a Golden Finger Comes to Me to Hand It Over

As head of the Special Affairs Office, You Youyou's job is to deal with people who suddenly gain a golden finger and want to hand it over to the country, whether out of a sense of duty, fear, or a desire for help.

A girl with a pocket dimension doesn't want to quietly make a fortune. She only wants the fruits and vegetables grown in her space added to the list of specialty agricultural products. When she finds You Youyou...

You Youyou asks, "What do you want?"

The girl says, "My fruits and vegetables can prolong people's lives. I don't want anything for myself. I just want to give them to the leaders who work so hard for our country. I want them to live another five hundred years!"

A sickly, illegitimate son born in ancient times opens a time gate to the country his mother always spoke of. When he finds You Youyou...

You Youyou asks, "What do you want?"

The sickly young man says, "My mother has always longed for the country she calls her homeland. She's been miserable every day. I hope I can help her return to the place where she was born someday."

You Youyou says, "Don't worry. Wherever our country's children may be, if they want to come home, we'll do everything in our power to bring them back into the embrace of their homeland!"

A boy who accidentally gains the ability to see ghosts is afraid of them. At first, he only wants to ask the Special Affairs Office for help and become an ordinary person again. He doesn't need ghosts whispering answers to him during exams. He can manage on his own.

But then he sees a girl sold by her own parents to a biotech company, where she eventually died during an experiment...

The boy says, "I want to call the police! I want to report ** Biotech for treating human life as worthless and trafficking people!"

You Youyou says, "We'll handle this as a special case and accept your report."

But when You Youyou finds a way to restore him to normal, the boy hesitates.

You Youyou says, "Don't worry. Our country will only grow stronger, and so will its criminal investigation capabilities. It might not be as fast as a victim reporting a crime directly, but trust the country. Criminals will all receive the punishment they deserve!"

Later, everyone who had dealt with the Special Affairs Office wondered how You Youyou, a woman, managed to keep that bunch of demons and monsters in line.

You Youyou: ...You know how it is.

My Dear Family's Red Packet Group Helps Me Build Up Civilization in the Beast World

Qin Yan, who unexpectedly arrives in a primitive beastfolk world, is the sort of girl who can be both sweet and tough.

With her baby face, she looks like she'll never grow up. She's so cute that it's hard to believe she can make more than a dozen handmade iron buckets in a day with a hammer.

Qin Yan looks at the river, which is so full of fish it's practically crowded, and gazes up at the sky while clutching her signal-less solar-powered phone. "Sigh! No matter how good I am at crafts, it's useless without raw materials!"

"Ding, ding, ding!"

"My Dear Family invites you to join the group!"

Grandpa Qin: "Sweet granddaughter, it's up to you to carry on my tinware skills! I've sent a red packet of raw materials. Nobody else is allowed to grab it. It's for my Yanyan."

From then on, the ladle for clubbing roe deer and scooping fish was hers. And surely the fish wouldn't be far behind!

Sturdy and long-lasting, it would never break, and it could even serve as a weapon in a pinch. One swing and you'd be seeing stars.

Qin's dad: "Yanyan, don't worry if you get sick. I grow medicinal herbs, and I've sent you a red packet of Chinese herbal medicine knowledge."

Ginseng, reishi, schisandra, aconite, croton, and hyoscyamus. Whether you want to live or die, take your pick!

There was also Grandma the seamstress's "layered cloth shoe soles" red packet, Dad the former leather factory owner’s "leather tanning" red packet, Mom the teacher's "DIY power generation" red packet, and her uncle the forest ranger's "wilderness survival" red packet...

And that's not even counting her aunt, a wildlife photographer; her maternal grandmother, who farmed when she was young; her maternal grandfather, who used to fish in the river; her cousin, a Michelin-starred chef; her older female cousin, an archery champion; her younger female cousin, a champion swimmer...

Everyone in the group said, "Precious Yanyan / little sister / big sister! Don't be afraid. Your family is here for you!"

Theme: Productivity is what matters most.