Making a Fortune Growing Medicinal Herbs in Ancient Times

Reason for entering the competition: Using modern medicinal-herb cultivation techniques, the heroine first makes a fortune for herself, then helps her clan prosper, and finally assists the many people suffering from a lack of doctors and medicine during the chaotic times. A humble peasant girl enters the ancestral hall, is added to the family genealogy, and joins the imperial court. She leaps from obscurity to greatness and transforms her family's fortunes. After surviving an earthquake with half a bottle of mineral water for three days, modern-day mixed-crop herb grower Li Xiaohan gets no rescue, only aftershocks, and transmigrates into a book. This life is a rough one: she's a farm girl in a remote village, with biased, awful grandparents and honest, wooden parents who are easy to bully. In the end, her whole family is destined to be wiped out. That opening is already hard enough. Worse still, the author has the male lead's imperial examination career stretch across three dynasties: first, the founding emperor; then the crown prince dies young and his son takes the throne; finally, an uncle who is a prince in a distant fief overthrows his nephew and succeeds in his rebellion. What time is it now? Li Xiaohan counts on her fingers. Oh, the crown prince is about to die, the emperor is going to name his grandson heir, and in three years the prince uncle will rebel! Li Xiaohan sighs. In a time of chaos, people are worth less than dogs. Why is it so hard just to live well? To survive and make a good life for herself, Li Xiaohan has no money or connections, so she decides to unite with anyone she can: Her biased grandparents and scheming, two-faced cousin? Kick the dead weight out. Her poor, quarrelsome clansfolk? Don't let them go. They'll be a fighting force in the chaotic years. Let's produce eucommia bark and chili peppers together to make money and stockpile grain and medicine. And Prince Ding, the future victor, who lacks grain and medicine? Yunnan Baiyao to stop bleeding, allicin to fight inflammation, and a new industry producing white wax. Perfect for his campaigns. Could I invest early? Years later, an outsider arrives in Dingcheng. "I keep hearing you talk about Miss Li. Who is she?" The people of Dingcheng reply, "There is only one Miss Li whom every one of us would honor with that title." The first time Zhang Fu saw Li Xiaohan was at his family's medicine shop. At the time, he only thought she was as skinny as a bean sprout, with a pair of bright, lively eyes. Those eyes were a little too lively, though. She didn't seem like an ordinary village girl who gathered herbs. Zhang Fu sent someone to investigate her, wondering if she was a spy with ulterior motives who had found a roundabout way to approach his family. Later, Zhang Fu, the son of a surrendered general, could only bury his feelings and tell himself that his affection was nothing more than the bond between colleagues. More than some elusive romance, I want you to live a long, happy life. Reader's guide: The heroine focuses on building her career early on, and the male lead appears later. ---- Preorder: Waiting for the Divorce ---- Xie Lingjun transmigrates into an unfinished romance novel. Why was it left unfinished? Because the heroine is a fallen aristocratic young lady who cares only about love, while the male lead is a power-hungry, ambitious official. The entire novel is full of the heroine crying, "How can you not love me?" and the male lead thinking impatiently, "Stop getting in the way of my climb to the top." They have no chemistry at all. In the end, not only can the readers take no more, but the author herself can't handle it either, so she has the couple divorce. After the divorce, the author breaks down and gives up. When Xie Lingjun arrives, the male and female leads have just married. On their wedding night, the male lead seizes an opportunity to go after a rival, while the heroine cries until dawn... It's just... so wonderful. What could be better than having a husband who has money but doesn't come home? Having a husband who has money and power, doesn't come home, and will eventually divorce you so you can take a big settlement. Xie Lingjun is practically laughing in her sleep. From then on, her goal is to make sure no one stands in her husband's way. She will become his most loyal knight, defend his climb to the pinnacle of power, and then divorce him. She's just waiting to get a share of the assets in the divorce and become financially independent. So why is that day taking so long to arrive... Ling Jue has known since childhood that what he loves most is power. His plans are very clear: take the imperial examinations, rise through the ranks, and become a marquis and a high minister. So far, he's achieved the first stage of his plan, and he's reached the age to marry. To avoid interference from an overly powerful wife's family and cultivate a good public image, Ling Jue carefully chooses a wife for himself: from a fallen noble family (good reputation), meek (easy to control), and not close to her family (few entanglements). On their wedding day, his new wife cries and carries on, getting in the way of his career. Ling Jue has no choice but to subtly explain his ambitions, hoping they can reach an understanding: no romance, just careers. Fortunately, his wife lives for her husband. From then on, she makes his goals her own and diligently puts into practice the ideas he expressed on their wedding night. If he could go back in time, Ling Jue would slap his past self awake on his wedding night. Theme: Live well