A Marquis's Widow: Exiled and Raising Children

New story: The Common Daughter's Everyday Flight from Famine War spreads across the land, and an age of chaos is coming. Du Yuetang, a highly accomplished modern agricultural sciences graduate, transmigrates into a cannon-fodder girl of the same name in a political romance novel. In two days, the rebel army will breach the city. Her birth father treats her like trash and abandons her, bringing along only her and her beautiful twenty-fourth sister. Within half a year, that 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 chastity. Du Yuetang wants to live, so she immediately gathers their money and flees with her five-year-old younger brother. She has barely climbed over a wall when she lands on a little beggar. No golden finger, not a wish-fulfillment story. A slow-paced slice of life about farming and the imperial examinations, with childhood sweethearts and a gradual, enduring romance. Xie Mingzhu transmigrates into the young widowed second wife of the Zhenyuan Marquis household, forced to take on five burdensome stepchildren. One was left by the previous wife, one by a concubine, two are hers, and one was born to an outside lover. She has just picked up the gold-edged patent of nobility bestowed by the emperor, ready to enjoy a luxurious life. In the blink of an eye, she's dragged down by a relative's rebellion, stripped of her home, and exiled to Lingnan. Lingnan is vast and sparsely populated, with many more men than women. To increase the population, the local officials don't spare even exiles like them. They brandish the