Qian Yu was a world-class pushover, a master at bullying her own family, a lackey at work and a queen at home.
Then, by a stroke of luck, she transmigrated.
As she lay dying, she heard two people arguing, and felt someone tug painfully at her hair.
The moment she opened her eyes, she was about to be sold off to a fat, big-eared landlord as a laborer.
She refused to accept her fate. One shoulder throw later, she'd established her place in the family.
After learning about her predecessor's family, Qian Yu resolved to leave behind a fortune worth millions!
To do that, she began clearing land, farming, processing goods, and running a business.
Going from poor farmer to wealthy merchant takes just five steps: First, ask the System for some high-yield seeds. Second, find a capable business partner. Third, sell your goods in the city. Fourth, set up cooperatives and process your goods. Fifth, go bankrupt.
The System laid a clever trap, and Qian Yu ended up on the executioner's block.
She'd thought life would just go on peacefully like that, but one day a talking dog stopped her.
The dog was the System, and it had come to deliver a man to her.
Qian Yu: I don't want one.
After the System talked her around, Qian Yu agreed and customized a "noninterference" System. From then on, she had a dog by her side and countless traps lying in wait!
From then on, Qian Yu kept reminding herself every day: "Don't talk to strangers, and don't bring strangers home!"
But the more you fear something, the more likely it is to happen.
Qian Yu saved a lot of people, some willingly and some by accident. She was always careful not to spark anything with them, but the System kept cheating for her, and she still ended up in the palace.
Even as a consort, Qian Yu never forgot her original purpose. While the others fought for power in the palace, she turned the garden into a vegetable plot. When others plotted against her, she went to farm in the Cold Palace. When ministers invited her to rebel, she turned around and reported them...
But the more she acted like that, the more Lan Ze fell for her. Sometimes he'd show off like a peacock, sometimes act like a scheming green tea, and sometimes beg for affection... At last, he managed to open Qian Yu's heart.
But that meant Qian Yu had to leave.
Before she left, Qian Yu left the original owner a letter and an imperial decree, but not a single word for Lan Ze.
Reader's Guide:
1. Happy ending. The two return to the modern world together.
2. The female lead has a bit of avoidant attachment. The male lead is a little insecure and afraid of losing her, but both of them play at being cheerful little sunbeams.
3. Farming and business are the focus, with the romance coming near the end.
Theme: One person's farming and business bring prosperity to the whole village through cooperation
