After Reincarnating as a Poor Girl, I Led the Whole Village to Prosperity

Novel blurb:

[Overpowered, sweet-on-the-outside-but-dark-within heroine x ruthless, taciturn, love-struck hero]

After transmigrating, Jiang Li goes from being a wealthy graduate student at an agricultural university to a foolish eldest sister in a family with nothing to its name.

Her parents don't love her, her neighbors aren't friendly, and the villagers bully her. Even the big yellow dog from the next village kicks her when it sees her.

To make matters worse, her parents favor sons and plan to marry her off to a fool more than twenty years older than her.

Jiang Li sweeps away the dust and takes her three young sisters to survive on the barren mountain everyone fears.

Everyone mocks Jiang Li, saying she'll be back down the mountain in three days.

But days turn into weeks, then months. Not only does Jiang Li cultivate the wasteland, her crops yield a thousand catties per mu, and she even buys a grand house in town.

Everyone comes to ask her how she did it. Jiang Li jumps up and says, “Back off! Back off! Back off!”

Jiang Li has the Labor Is Glorious System. As long as she completes her tasks on time, she receives seeds for random crops.

Thanks to her hard work, her family's circumstances keep improving. She plans to retire early, but then she gets a little tail who follows her around.

From then on, wherever she goes, that person is right behind her.

Everyone says Marquis Dingyuan betrayed the country, but only Xu Yin knows the truth: his father guarded the border for over twenty years and never did anything to harm the state of Wei.

An imperial edict orders his parents' execution. He is saved by his father's old subordinate, allowing him to survive.

He hides in the mountains while searching for the truth behind his father's frame-up.

He originally wanted to avoid getting involved with the villagers below the mountain, but he took pity on a little fool and helped her.

From then on, wherever his gaze falls, there she is.

With his revenge still unavenged, Xu Yin doesn't want to drag her into his troubles. “Miss Jiang, wait for me one more year. I'll come for you with eight sedan chairs and marry you properly.”

Jiang Li: “...Big Brother Xu, I think you might have misunderstood something.”

Xu Yin: “Miss Jiang, I understand what's in your heart. This is the bracelet my mother left for her future daughter-in-law. Keep it safe.”

Jiang Li: “…”

Content warnings:

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

2. Set in an imaginary world, with no real-life counterparts.

3. The author has a lot of personal world-building choices and loves stories about powerful women.

Theme: Survive against the odds