Top-tier star Yao Ying transmigrates into a melodramatic period novel about a real and fake heiress. In the book, she is the fake heiress who gets switched back after spending ten years living like the center of everyone’s attention.
The reason she transmigrated was that a family living in a fishing village on an island had a boating accident while out at sea, and the young girl drowned.
Yao Ying barely crawled up from the beach and looked around in bewilderment. “...”
What kind of good person starts their transmigration into a book on a deserted island? Did she transmigrate into Robinson Crusoe or something?
She could complain all she wanted, but having grown used to being waited on hand and foot, she had no choice but to figure out how to survive on the island.
Yao Ying calmly listed the advantages she had as someone who had transmigrated:
She was good at acting.
She could walk briskly in high heels.
She knew all kinds of makeup and skincare techniques, as well as beauty secrets.
...Great. She didn’t have a single skill suited to surviving in the wilderness.
Yao Ying lay back down, her face ashen, and prepared to wait for death.
“Ding! Your Portable Island System is now online. Host, please check your inventory!” There was always a way out. Yao Ying’s golden finger had arrived.
She excitedly opened her virtual inventory. Inside were a bottle of mineral water, a steamed corn bun, and... an ax.
[Task 1: Build a temporary shelter before nightfall.]
Yao Ying: ?
Was she seriously expected to chop down trees with her skinny arms and legs?
“BINGO!”
Three months later, in a lush coconut grove, a dark-skinned, stocky little girl swung an ax with both hands, chopping with great gusto.
[Congratulations, Host! You have successfully made a raft and completed the beginner task, Desert Island Survival. The intermediate task, Island Exploration, is now unlocked.]
Yao Ying hoisted the ax onto her shoulder, grabbed her hair, which she had already cut short, and scoffed. “Tch, who do you think you’re looking down on?”
[Congratulations, Host! You have successfully completed the main quest on Monkey Island and unlocked the entries “A Monkey Who Can Climb Trees,” “A Monkey Who Can Swim,” and “A Monkey Who Can Snatch Food.” Please proceed to Lychee Island.]
[Congratulations, Host! You have successfully completed the main quest on Lychee Island and unlocked the entries “Lying Down to Eat Lychees,” “Eating Lychees Upside Down,” and “Doing the Splits While Eating Lychees.” Please proceed to...]
As the patches of black fog gradually lit up, resource islands of all shapes and sizes appeared on the System map.
Just as Yao Ying’s collecting obsession kicked in and she decided to light up the entire map, the System issued a new task: make the whole family rich.
By then, Yao Ying had almost turned into a wild person. Only then did she vaguely remember that she seemed to have a family [?]
After disappearing for two whole years, Yao Ying returned to the fishing village. She learned that her father had died in the boating accident, and that all who remained of her family were her mother, Yao Chunxia, and her younger sister, Yao Tong. Her mother was so thin from the lack of supplies that she was skin and bones.
Yao Ying declared, “You just need to eat your fill? Easy!”
The villagers whispered among themselves:
“Who’s that girl, black as charcoal?”
“My goodness, she’s so tall and stocky. How will she ever find a husband?”
“Poor Yao. It’s hard enough for her to feed one daughter, and now she has to feed another one who clearly has a huge appetite. How will they manage?”
Before long, though, the villagers noticed that the Yao women were getting plumper and looking healthier. The barren patch of land in front of their house was now filled with fruit trees!
Reading Guide:
1. The heroine is dark-skinned, tall, and stocky. She lives by the sea and is in the sun all year, so she can’t possibly be fair and delicate. She isn’t some favored heroine who has everything handed to her. If that’s not your thing, please don’t read.
2. Early on, she survives on a deserted island. In the middle, she feeds her mother and sister and helps the whole family get rich. Her mother and sister have limited perspectives and will need time to change. Later on, she may develop the island. That’s right, it’s me again, the author of the great mishmash.
3. I won’t bash the real heiress. They barely interact. If the island gets written into the story later, I’ll have her return as the village official~
Theme: Even on a deserted island, you have to do your best to survive!
