When other people transmigrate into a book as the heroine or a supporting female character, Yu Bailu gets the short end of the stick and lands in a cannon-fodder family.
Her father is a bricklayer, and her mother is a fierce country woman.
Her eldest brother is a good man. He drowned while trying to save someone, leaving behind a wife who wants to remarry and two little nephews who lost their father, then their mother, when she ran off.
Her father has to go away for work to support the family, while her mother has her hands full with the fields, the kitchen, and two grandsons.
Yu Bailu has just turned fifteen, the age when she should be thinking about marriage. But how could she leave her family in such a state?
Since there are no suitable bachelors to be found in the countryside, she decides to become a mom without the labor pains and raise the two children her brother left behind.
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A child-rearing story with a golden finger, where she becomes a mom without the labor pains.
The heroine is an invisible NPC who gives people everyday tasks:
Ask her father to carry a load of water, and he completes it enthusiastically. Constitution +1.
Ask her mother to cook a pot of pig feed, and she makes it in no time. The pigs are delighted and gain five pounds that day.
Send her nephew to study with the village teacher, and he changes class to scholar, gaining intelligence.
The whole family gets a round of daily tasks, and their attributes keep climbing.
A few years later, her father is as strong as an ox, her mother has regained her youth, and her nephew is a gifted student who breezes through the imperial examinations, from entry-level scholar to licentiate, provincial graduate, and palace graduate. He earns his aunt an honorary title and gives her a life of comfort.
After raising children for more than a decade, the marriage prospects of the now older, unmarried aunt improve year by year, and romance comes pouring in.
Note:
A writing-recovery project to get back into the swing of things. I just hope to finish it smoothly.
Theme: Be strong and self-reliant, and lead the whole family through hardship to prosperity.