Gu Xiaowan's Farming Life in a Chaotic Era

New novel: A Concubine-Born Daughter's Everyday Life as a Refugee

Du Yuetang, a modern agricultural sciences graduate, transmigrates into a cannon-fodder concubine-born daughter with the same name in a novel about court intrigue and sweet romance.

In two days, rebel forces will breach the city. Her biological father treats his concubine-born children as worthless, and only takes her and her beautiful twenty-fourth sister along. Within half a year, the twenty-fourth sister will be offered up as a plaything. Three years later, Du Yuetang will take a fatal blow meant for her legitimate older sister, the heroine, and may even lose her innocence.

Du Yuetang wants to live, so she immediately gathers her money and flees with her five-year-old younger brother.

Just as she climbs over a wall, she lands on a little beggar.

Qin Xiao was kidnapped at the age of three and taken to Wuyuntai, where the royal family trained its assassins. When chaos engulfed the land, he used his exceptional martial arts skills to join the rebel army. Full of courage and righteous fervor, he earned countless merits at a young age.

He even fought his way through the enemy seven times and back again to rescue the commander's family.

Unfortunately, the young lord fell in love with a woman and was willing to give up five provinces and surrender his military authority for her.

As the commander's trusted subordinate, Qin Xiao was naturally distrusted by the young lord, who plotted to have him die a tragic death in a canyon.

Reborn, the first thing Qin Xiao does is find and kill the enchantress who brought chaos to the land!

But just as he reaches the wall of the magistrate of Qingshi County's home, someone climbing over it knocks him unconscious.

1. No golden finger. A slow-paced, everyday-life story, not a power fantasy. Farming, studying for the imperial examinations, and a childhood romance that develops gradually.

2. The male lead died at just thirteen in his previous life.

After observing three years of mourning for her parents, Gu Xiaowan packs her belongings and leaves Hongfeng Village, planning to make a living by staying with her older sisters.

But her eldest sister's husband is the concubine-born son of an exiled criminal's family. They have many children and are so poor they can barely feed themselves.

Her second sister's husband was conscripted two years ago and has never been heard from again. Her second sister is left with her child and a sickly mother-in-law, and they don't have enough to eat.

Her third sister's husband is a bricklayer with a trade to rely on, but he has just broken his leg.

Her fifth sister only managed to get pregnant after more than three years of marriage. Gu Xiaowan can't go and burden her.

That leaves her fourth sister, who lives in town. Her husband is literate and teaches at a private school, and their household is fairly comfortable. Gu Xiaowan thinks she might find small jobs to get by there.

But she never expected her fourth sister's husband to be framed by a former classmate and thrown in prison. Her sister spent everything she had to get him out, and now they have no money or home. They're about to move their entire family back to Hongfeng Village and rely on her.

Looking at the five mouths in her fourth sister's family, Gu Xiaowan finally returns to the village and picks up her hoe again.

Reader's guide:

1. A coming-of-age story. The heroine has a very hard life at first, and is naive and idealistic. Most of her family can't be helped. The story will probably run around 500,000 to 700,000 words.

2. No golden finger, average intelligence, and not a power fantasy. Ordinary people trying to survive in a chaotic era.

Coming soon 1: The Young Lady Is Frail

Lu Shiyu transmigrates into the youngest daughter, raised outside the household, of a general's family.

Her father is a pillar of the nation, a veteran minister who has served three emperors and protected more than half of the Great Yan dynasty. In his old age, surrounded by children and grandchildren, he is accused of treason and dies with blood splattered across the golden throne hall.

Her brothers and nephews are exiled to a desolate land, while her sisters-in-law and nieces are sold to the entertainment quarter.

Everyone draws a sharp breath. Fortunately, the youngest daughter and sister is far away in Lin'an. How could someone so delicate and fragile endure such hardship?

But Lu Shiyu, carrying the sword Settles the Realm, is approaching the capital by boat, murderous intent in her wake.

Settles the Realm is the sword of a mysterious number-one fighter on the martial world rankings. It is said that no one has ever seen this top fighter's true face, and that they are invincible under heaven. Even the person in the palace has invited them to come out of seclusion several times, offering them the honors of a national preceptor.

Reader's guide: 1. The heroine is invincible. 2. A strong heroine and power fantasy, with the logic serving her.

Coming soon 2: The Marquis's Wife's Daily Life Raising Children

Xie Mingzhu transmigrates into the young and beautiful second wife of the Marquis of Zhenyuan.

She has five children: two from his previous marriage, two of her own, and one born to his mistress.

Shouldn't she run?

But the Marquis of Zhenyuan dies in battle at the frontier, and an endless stream of noble titles and generous rewards pours into the marquis's residence.

Xie Mingzhu thinks it over again. With children of both sexes, a fortune, and a noble title to her name, she's already a winner in life.

So she begins her happy (chaotic) daily life raising children in the marquis's residence.

Theme: Even if the road is strewn with thorns, you must carve out a sunlit path.