Transmigrate into a Book: An 1980s Background Character Gets Rich with Food

Fed up with working overtime day and night, Qin Huan had just decided to quit and join the ranks of street vendors when she woke up to find she'd transmigrated to the 1980s.

The moment she arrived, her brother and sister-in-law were already planning to sell her to a blind man for his bride price. Qin Huan felt her future was bleak. Was this uniquely awful from-the-start situation found only in transmigration novels?

Luckily, the Lin family also needed a granddaughter-in-law to bring good fortune, so they settled the marriage before Blind Sun could. That saved Qin Huan from being mistreated in his home.

Her husband worked in the city and was hardly ever home. The only ones in the house were her gentle, fragile mother-in-law and her young brother-in-law, Lin Jiahao. Qin Huan breathed a sigh of relief. At least she hadn't jumped from the frying pan into the fire.

Wait, Lin Jiahao? Qin Huan remembered him. Wasn't he the tragic, powerful villain from that period novel she'd just dropped?

So it wasn't that she'd transmigrated into the past; she'd transmigrated into a book. She was a mere background character, not even mentioned in the text.

If the original plot really played out, wouldn't she become a widow while still young? And wouldn't her kind, considerate mother-in-law die early too?

No way. Now that she was here to change things, she was going to turn the original story upside down!

The unfamiliar crops, backbreaking farm work, watchful brother and sister-in-law, and gossipy villagers made Qin Huan think she wouldn't last long in the village.

But even in the 1980s, she needed somewhere to make a living. If the village wouldn't have her, she'd go to the city.

At least she had excellent cooking and baking skills. Qin Huan figured she might be able to put down roots with her dream of running a food stall in this world. If you have a skill, how can you go hungry? Watch her open restaurants, bake cakes, and build a factory, until she carves out a food empire of her own in the 1980s.

Lin Jiacheng had clawed his way out of the mud. He thought he'd lost the ability to love and had turned down countless blind dates.

He never expected his mother to arrange a wife for him at the last minute, so his grandmother could rest in peace. And this wife was dazzling beyond belief.

As he watched Qin Huan's business grow, Lin Jiacheng panicked. He couldn't just be content with being a truck driver. He needed a career of his own, too. Otherwise, how could a pebble like him ever be worthy of a pearl?

Here's the blurb for my upcoming story, "The Princess's Farming Life on the Grasslands." If you're interested, please add it to your collection.

Mu Yun, an agricultural student, was born into the body of the eldest princess of the Jingxuan Kingdom. She thought she'd live the life of a pampered princess, but her birth mother died in childbirth, and her stepmother saw her and her younger brother as thorns in her side. As soon as Mu Yun came of age, the empress arranged for her to marry into the grasslands to secure an alliance.

The Gaole people were rumored to be a savage, uncivilized tribe who ate raw meat. Their khan was over fifty, wounded by a blade, and gravely ill. Mu Yun couldn't believe her father could be so cruel, or that their dynasty had declined so far...

A grand bridal procession stretching ten miles, laden with gold and jewels, thousands of private soldiers, hundreds of artisans, seeds, medicinal herbs...

This was Mu Yun's dowry, as well as the diplomatic gift meant to maintain friendly relations between the two kingdoms.

Both kingdoms celebrated, but Mu Yun was the only one in mourning. After this parting, the commercial network she'd spent years building would have to go underground, and it would be difficult to continue her dream of developing new crops.

The desolate grasslands stretched as far as the eye could see. Mu Yun stepped into the moist soil of a river valley, and hope rose in her heart. This valley was perfect farmland.

Wu Enqi was the fourth son of the Gaole khan, born to a Han Chinese woman. He suffered bullying as a child, but rose to become Gaole's commander as an adult. He had once beheaded the commander of the Beidi Kingdom, and was now the envoy tasked with escorting the princess as part of the marriage alliance.

The bridal procession stretched ten miles, the journey a thousand. With danger all around, Wu Enqi slaughtered every Beidi assassin, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and gathered the princess into his arms for protection.

Only Mu Yun knew what he murmured in her ear.

"According to the old customs of Gaole, a son inherits his father's wife. Princess, you will be mine one day."

History records: Princess Mu, eldest daughter of Emperor Jingwen and eldest sister of Emperor Jingde, was born under the star of the Maiden and blessed with a gifted nature. She was clever as a child, skilled in farming, and as she grew, became gentle and gracious, learned and virtuous. In the fortieth year of Jingwen's reign, she married into Gaole. She followed the water and pasture, raised cattle and sheep, bred fine crops, and made butter and cheese to nourish the people and bring longevity to the realm. She also valued diplomacy, established border markets and opened trade routes. Relations between the two kingdoms flourished as never before. Emperor Jingde honored her virtue by naming her Princess Who Pacifies the Kingdom, placing her on equal standing with the emperor.

Theme: Self-reliance and building a business through hard work