A Survival Guide to the Eighteenth Century

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Qiu Yiwen had planned to enjoy a lovely trip to Spain during her break from the college entrance exams, but a bullfighting poster from three hundred years ago sends her back to early eighteenth-century Spain.

Qiu Yiwen is close to tears. She's come alone, with nothing at all, and she doesn't know how to do anything.

She has no choice but to start at the very bottom as a cleaning nun, struggling forward one step at a time. Years later, riding the rising tides of the Age of Discovery, she finally crosses the vast ocean and returns to the homeland she's longed for.

But the land is the same, while everything else has changed.

She's returned, but she can never go back to the home she remembers.

But if she can't go back, then she'll stay. Even in this foreign land, she can live out a fulfilling life of her own!

But when Qiu Yiwen opens the poster that changed half her life once more... she falls into thought. Why does her husband look exactly like the young bullfighter who died too soon in the poster?

[Reader's Guide]

1. Not a historically rigorous story; partly fictionalized.

2. Focuses on the heroine's growth. Things are a little tough early on, but not for the sake of angst. No major historical events. One-on-one romance, both leads' firsts, happy ending.

Coming soon: "The Puppet Cult Leader's Comeback Record"

Rumor has it that the world contains nine ancient books, the "Nine Hua Canon." Whoever gathers all nine will become invincible under heaven.

In her previous life, Mu Hongyuan lost power because of these books. First, her martial uncle seized control and turned her into a puppet cult leader. Then her fiance betrayed her, leading to her death.

Reborn, Mu Hongyuan decides to take back everything that belongs to her before her martial uncle's plans are complete. She'll seize the books first and become the greatest under heaven!

After countless hardships, Mu Hongyuan finds the first book. She opens it with excitement, only to see these words on the very first page:

"Industrial production of sodium carbonate? What is this?"

"I must be opening it the wrong way!" Mu Hongyuan thinks. "Once I've gathered all nine, I'll surely be able to understand it."

Mu Hongyuan finds the second book.

"The Cultivation and Planting of Hybrid Rice"

The third book:

"Barefoot Doctors Manual"

At last, Mu Hongyuan bursts out laughing:

"Invincible under heaven! What a wonderful thing, to be invincible under heaven!"

"So it means benefiting the people and the country, strengthening the nation, and making the world invincible."

Question: What will Mu Hongyuan do next?

Answer: Find a way to hand the Nine Hua Canon over to the country!

Theme: Homesickness