Studying and Living Well in Republican-Era China

Some people say they miss the Republican-era aesthetic. The heroine, who ends up in the Republican era, curses them to come here themselves: Girls who go to school are made to read The Lessons for Women. Being a girl in a family that favors sons over daughters could cost you your life. Sanitation is abysmal. People wipe themselves with wood chips, bricks, or clods of dirt. Marrying close relatives and footbinding are small problems by comparison. The real issue is that epidemics run rampant. There will always be some contagious disease ready to embrace you. You may dodge one, but you won't dodge them all. After landing in a rural village in the early twentieth century, with living conditions so primitive and beatings considered a family tradition, running away from home is just a fantasy. What's the point of striving? At least the local landowner has food to spare. I might as well eat and drink my way through life. Who cares?^ What? Girls aren't even considered people?! They want to betroth me off early?! They want to bind my feet into a pair of stinking little shoes? And the man I'm betrothed to wants to swindle me out of my dowry? The salted fish slaps the table in fury. This is going too far! To escape the fate of marrying young, having children young, and dying young just to be reborn, the salted fish gazes at the sky with a pen in hand. There's only one path, and it's the one-way road of studying hard... A reader's guide: 1. In Volume One, the heroine focuses mainly on studying. The male lead appears a little later. This is not a fast-paced plot-driven face-slapping power fantasy. It realistically depicts the customs and people of an era. The heroine doesn't arrive and immediately rally everyone with her modern ideas. Every era has its own ways of surviving. The heroine will hide her true nature to adapt to an unfavorable environment, taking things step by step: first seeking a place to live and a way to support herself, then gradually influencing the era around her. 2. The heroine has a lot of inner monologue. She's clever, dark, and wild, and occasionally acts like a goofball. She won't join the military or enter politics, and she won't become a star or socialite. She has political leanings but won't join a political party. In the end, she'll be a person of culture. To portray the heroine and those around her as scholars, the novel includes plot summaries, speeches, academic discussions, article abstracts, and story selections. Longer passages will be flagged in the chapter titles. Please don't buy it if that's not your thing. 3. The world is an alternate reality that may or may not resemble ours. The timeline doesn't match up, so there's no need to scrutinize the history. 4. This is a slice-of-life farming novel told from the heroine's perspective, about her studies and the circumstances of her life. Especially from Volume Two onward, it closely depicts the era and the people around her. If you've given it a fair shot and still don't like this style, feel free to click away. 5. Please, if you think the heroine doesn't feel modern, find the farming-novel style slow and tedious, or dislike either the male or female lead, just drop the story and move on. Spare yourself, and spare the author! I've got a good stockpile of chapters, and daily updates of 3,000 characters are guaranteed. VIP notice: This novel will become a paid title on Monday, April 12. The paid chapters start at Chapter 18, so if you've already read it, please be careful not to buy the same chapters twice. There will be three updates today to celebrate. Thank you all for your encouragement and support. I'll keep working hard! ^-^ I've adjusted the anti-piracy settings again: The purchase threshold for paid chapters is now 90%. In other words, count the paid chapters and buy 90% of them, and you'll be able to purchase and read new chapters as soon as they come out. The delay is now 24 hours. If you haven't met the purchase threshold, you don't need to buy the rest. You can read normally after two days. Depending on how well these settings work, I may adjust them again later. Thank you for understanding! ^-^^-^^-^ Theme: Building a good life while striving for self-improvement through education