Farming Life with the Legitimate Daughter

After transmigrating to an ancient era she'd never heard of, Chen Liang found it impossible to adjust to life there with her modern ideas. She was constrained at every turn.

Then her so-called family dragged her down with them, and she was exiled alone beyond the frontier.

Before her exile, she unexpectedly saved her sworn enemy, Gu Qingzi, the eldest legitimate daughter of the Gu family.

The two bickered their way to the frontier in autumn, then immediately began preparing to survive the long winter.

They put their strengths in reading and writing to use by starting basic education beyond the frontier, teaching people arithmetic and literacy.

Despite their many mishaps, the two somehow settled into a peaceful life, teaching during the slack season and farming during the busy season.

Gu Qingzi: You ill-mannered concubine-born girl! I'll have you sold off.

Chen Liang: ...Little sister, you're already on your way to exile beyond the frontier.

Brave and kind heroine X hardworking hero

1. The hero appears late. He'll show up when he's needed.

2. The story is mainly about friendship!!!! There's also a little sweet romance. No cartoonishly awful characters, no imperial examinations, and no conventional family squabbles.

3. The setting is fictional, and the crops aren't historically researched.

4. The protagonists hunt wild animals for food to survive, so readers who might find that upsetting should take note. They live in a place with harsh natural conditions, and hunt to stay alive. Of course, wild animals might also knock people to death.

Another farming story in the same vein. Blurb:

"Young man, do you want a wife?"

"No," Xun Wu said flatly.

"What young man doesn't want a wife?"

"I don't. I can take care of myself. One mouth to feed, no family to worry about." Xun Wu liked being alone.

"Then why are you working so hard?"

"To earn money and build a big house back home." Xun Wu turned down another matchmaking offer and went back to work.

He wanted to save enough to build a new house. A spacious one where he could live alone, free as a bachelor.

Then one day, a frail woman took his hand as if it were the last thing keeping her alive.

She was covered in new and old wounds, weak and thin. Though she clung to him, her grip was feeble.

Her strength was so slight.

Her life, too, was hanging by a thread.

His heart softened. He saved her, then spent all the money he'd earned doing it.

After five months away trying to earn money, he came back empty-handed, bringing only two women who looked as if a gust of wind could knock them over.

After Yang Fuqing's surgery failed, she died and transmigrated to a distant past, where she became a daughter who was beaten every day.

To survive, she attached herself to a simple, honest man and took her original body's mother far, far away.

In this remote, frigid region, winter lasted half the year, summer was brief, and resources were scarce. Fortunately, the people here were warm and kind, with simple, honest customs.

"It's all right. As long as I get far away from a society that eats people alive, we can make a good life no matter how hard or tiring it is." Looking at the honest man's shabby thatched hut, she encouraged herself.

Resourceful, brave, warm, and resilient heroine X neat-freak straight man

Theme: Make your own way in the world.