After Binding Myself to a Countryside Lifestyle Short-Video App

[Upcoming novels next door: "I Make My Fortune Farming with a Rural Market App" and "The Dark Moonlight's Guide to Escaping a Love Rival's Battlefield". Their blurbs are below. Please add them to your reading lists!]

Blurb:

Shang Miaomiao unexpectedly transmigrates into a general's household as its legitimate daughter. Before she's had her fill of a carefree life, her father returns from a lost battle poisoned and unconscious. The household is confiscated, and the entire family is exiled to a drought-stricken village on the frontier.

A daughter of an official family becomes a farmer's daughter overnight.

The land is barren and harsh, and famine is everywhere.

People in the capital shake their heads and sigh. The three members of the general's household probably won't survive the winter.

But Shang Miaomiao, who has a short-video app for pastoral living, simply smiles. "You're worrying over nothing! The app's shop has everything. You just need to exchange points for it."

And so...

She plants vegetables and waters them, tends flowers and arranges bouquets, picks fruit and makes jam, catches fish and cooks, embroiders and paints... She films all kinds of everyday rural life and earns points!

You say the region is drought-stricken and short on water, and someone has monopolized the village's only reservoir and charges people to use it?

What's there to fear?

Exchange points for a spring, and the water will flow without end!

You say famine has left everyone short of grain, and rice, flour, vegetables, and fruit are expensive and hard to find?

What's there to worry about?

Exchange points for all kinds of drought-resistant hybrid seeds, and the whole village will have enough to eat!

You say the general is poisoned and unconscious, beyond even Hua Tuo's ability to save, with death his only option?

Why panic?

Exchange points for an antidote pill, and he'll wake up and be on his feet in no time!

Shang Miaomiao farms while filming videos to earn points and exchange them for all kinds of goods. She only meant to improve her life, but before long she becomes an online influencer with millions of followers, and points turn into a steady flood of silver.

So she builds farms and orchards, opens a chain of restaurants, creates a cold-chain distribution network, and sells goods through her video storefront... Before she knows it, she's made a fortune and helped the people build an entire business district.

But then...

The clingy, naive boy she casually rescued from the mountains turns out, when they meet again, to be a cold and handsome emperor of an enemy nation.

When enemies surround her, he stands in his shining armor and declares with steely resolve that she is the empress of the Mu You Kingdom, and no one may lay a hand on her. She can only stare in shock...

Shang Miaomiao: Don't believe rumors, and don't spread them!

Upcoming novel 1: "I Make My Fortune Farming with a Rural Market App"

Meng Qingshui unexpectedly transmigrates and becomes a member of the ancient version of Bitter Gourd Village.

From the start, she's got three little sisters as thin as bean sprouts and a frail mother with a big belly.

The good news: there's a house, land, fields, and a live-in son-in-law.

The bad news: the house is a thatched hut, the family has only three mu of land, and the live-in son-in-law is a fool.

The family has no food in storage. Every day it's wild greens with thin porridge, going hungry one day and full the next. A shrewish aunt nearby is eyeing the family's meager belongings.

Meng Qingshui: It's fine. I'll bring out my rural market app.

With the mountains to rely on and a golden finger at her side, as long as she's hardworking, how could she fail to lift Bitter Gourd Village out of poverty?

As for the tall young man who trails after her every day, eager to take on all the filthy, exhausting work...

They could just be partners. It's not like that wouldn't work.

--

This novel is also known as:

"Oh my! Sisters, watch me grow vegetables and make a fortune!"

"Ding! Your rural market is now online."

"My foolish, tough, devoted husband wants to fall in love after our marriage."

Upcoming novel 2: "The Dark Moonlight's Guide to Escaping a Love Rival's Battlefield"

(Redemption + possessive love + a battlefield of redemption and reputation-clearing)

Song Xingwan is the top performer on the transmigration bureau's redemption team. Just before going on vacation, she suddenly receives an urgent assignment from the neighboring villain-corruption team.

"All you have to do is make him fall to darkness. Use any means necessary."

Got it.

So after transmigrating into the book, Song Xingwan skillfully showers the pitiful boy with love and warmth, doing everything she can to shelter him beneath her wings.

When his guarded, resistant eyes gradually become trusting and dependent, Song Xingwan knows the time has come.

A sharp sword pierces flesh, and the crimson pouring from his chest climbs into those narrow eyes.

Disbelief, disappointment, hurt...

Under his sinister, shadowed gaze, Song Xingwan briskly pulls out the sword.

His tenderness and dependence turn completely into cold hatred.

The mission is a perfect success.

Hearing the System announce that the corruption mission is complete, Song Xingwan escapes by faking her death and returns to the bureau without hesitation.

--

After returning, Song Xingwan is just about to rate the mission results when she's suddenly told that a major anomaly occurred in the mission world, which has independently reloaded and restarted.

"The mission progress is showing zero. You'll have to go back in and do it again."

?

"It's fine. Just follow the same steps as before, and we'll give you double the reward when you get back."

All right, then.

Song Xingwan transmigrates into the book for a second time and follows the same playbook, showering the pitiful boy with love and warmth.

But as she keeps doing it, she notices that the way he looks at her seems a little off.

Complicated, unfathomable.

Song Xingwan feels uneasy and checks with the System again and again, but all she gets is the same reply: a report has been sent to the Main System, and they're waiting for a response.

Then, on the night before the betrayal scene, she drinks the tea her maid brings her.

A blush spreads across her cheeks, sweat dampens her dress, and heat and panic fill Song Xingwan's mind. A pair of large hands silently seize her waist from behind.

Behind the soft red curtains, with a faint fragrance in the air, Song Xingwan is forced to fall against a broad, sturdy chest.

She looks up in fear, and the face before her is none other than her stunningly handsome target!

He lifts her chin, his narrow eyes churning with undisguised, obsessive possessiveness. In a husky voice, he sighs, "Your second brother is newly married. I'm afraid he won't be able to save you."

!!!

Song Xingwan panics completely.

She's certain her target from the villain-corruption team has been reborn.

Somebody, please save her!

--

He Qinian grew up in the desolate, freezing swamps of the underworld, and his heart was steeped in darkness and cruelty.

Everyone calls him a cold-blooded harbinger of disaster. They avoid him, and would be glad to see him dead.

He once thought the only pleasures in life were slaughtering ants and fighting for power.

Until he met Song Xingwan.

No one knows that across both his lives, he has used every means at his disposal to get her. He will have her, no matter what.

Even if she's vile and hypocritical, and doesn't love him at all.

Reading guide:

1. One-on-one romance, both leads' first relationship, happy ending.

2. The main story begins in the second run. Expect redemption, a reputation-clearing battlefield, possessive love, and a locked-room warning, among other things.

3. The male lead is unhinged, but has graduated from the School of Proper Conduct for Men. Even when he believes the heroine has betrayed and deceived him, he still loves her. He won't deliberately mistreat her.

4. Fictional setting, fictional setting, fictional setting. Please don't scrutinize it for historical accuracy. Everything is made up to serve the story.

Theme: Hard work is glorious; diligence leads to prosperity