After Becoming the Mary Sue Heroine of an Old-Fashioned Farming Novel

Ordinary Yao Xibao transmigrates into the heroine of an old-fashioned farming novel, a Mary Sue through and through. What's a Mary Sue heroine? Everyone loves her, flowers bloom at her passing, she digs ginseng on the mountain and finds wild rabbits at its foot, and the handsome man she casually saves in some backwater village turns out to be a prince. He pleads with her to spend their lives together, just the two of them... Xibao: Why not just lie flat? System (lighting a cigarette with a world-weary sigh): Ever heard of the law of conservation of energy? No koi fish is innocent... Xibao: Are you saying I stole someone else's luck? (Shocked.) System: No, we're a legitimate System! You're using up your own luck points. When they run out... Xibao: What happens? Before the System can finish speaking, she falls flat on her face. System: That. You take all the bad luck, and everyone else gets to be happy. When your luck stays below zero for too long, you could die at any moment. Xibao: How many luck points do I have now? System: Minus 352. Xibao: ??? How am I supposed to survive?! She thought that becoming a Mary Sue heroine meant she could lie flat and be lazy. But to keep her luck points up and stay alive, she has no choice but to put an end to feudal superstition and lead the villagers in scientific farming (not really). So... # How do you make the famous XX sauce? # Could the rice-field aquaculture plan work in Puxia Mountain Village? # How do you make a three-spindle treadle spinning wheel? # What are the reasons cement might not harden enough? As a lazy fish, Yao Xibao initially only wants to lie flat and enjoy herself. But before she knows it, she's led the whole village to prosperity, and the glory of Mary Sue shines across the entire Zhou Kingdom. Countless commoners revere her as the "Celestial Maiden," and even the emperor chases after her to ennoble her as a princess. Emperor: I am the Son of Heaven, and Xibao is the Celestial Maiden, so she's my sister. Hurry and draft the decree! At first, A village auntie offers Xibao eggs: Xibao, bless my daughter with a chubby baby boy. System: Luck -10. Xibao: ? The baby's sex is already determined. My luck can't change that! System: True, but her daughter was going to have a difficult birth. Xibao: ... The village chief sets an example by believing in superstition: Xibao, bless our village with good weather and a bumper harvest this year. System: Luck -10,000. Heroine: !!! Later, The other village aunties come to her with eggs. Xibao pulls out a spinning wheel: "Women can weave," "women can earn as much as men," and "women hold up half the sky!" Before spring plowing, the village chief waves the heroine over again. Xibao... Heroine: !! No more feudal superstition! Scientific farming is the only way! Gongyi Su has been unlucky since birth. From childhood to adulthood, he's suffered a minor mishap every three days and a major one every five. At a literary gathering, dozens of people share a table and a meal, but he's the only one served improperly prepared pufferfish. Whenever he travels, whichever carriage he boards is bound to break down halfway. During the imperial exams, either he gets an upset stomach the day before, or his exam booth leaks and soaks his paper on the day itself... Gongyi Su refuses to accept his fate. He diligently studies writing, martial arts, medicine, cooking, carpentry, and all sorts of other skills, hoping to save himself whenever bad luck strikes. He makes it through fifteen years like this. Then one day, while visiting a classmate's home, he hears all about the good fortune enjoyed by his classmate's elder sister. Gongyi Su: How could that be? The villagers must be making far-fetched connections. Yet after he returns home, he enjoys three whole days of peace and quiet, something he's never experienced before. After testing it repeatedly, Gongyi Su has no choice but to admit those "far-fetched connections" are correct. He be like: Could there really be someone like her and someone like me in the same world? Does that make sense? She's already so lucky, yet she's still such a hard worker? She wished me good luck! My darling, come cuddle! A koi heroine who only wants to be lazy but has to learn all kinds of farming techniques vs. an unlucky hero who is determined to work hard and loves learning all kinds of skills. Blurb screenshotted (2022-04-06). Theme: Scientific development is the only way forward.