Thanks for Asking: I’m in Ancient Times, and I’m Everyone’s Shared Child

Pei Xiaohai was society's leftover scrap, an afterthought to her family. As a minor, she was an unremarkable, useless kid; as an adult, she was a good-for-nothing waste of a human being. Her greatest wish in life was to be born into a wealthy family and receive unconditional love and attention, becoming a beautiful couch potato who never had to do a thing. In short, she dreamed of living off others until she died, and hoped that dream would come true. By a twist of fate, Pei Xiaohai meets a System claiming to be a family simulator. It repeatedly promises to grant her wish and tailor-make a suitable family for her, so Pei Xiaohai believes it and binds herself to it. She thinks that after sealing her memories and reincarnating, she'll be born into a family that had eight sons before finally having a daughter, where a fabulously wealthy patriarch will order, "Spoil her! Spoil her with everything you've got!" But in reality, it's more like: "Sigh, another girl. We already have eight. We can't afford to raise her. Maybe... offer her to the river god." Her father sighs heavily, using a euphemism for drowning her. "She's still a life, at least. We should sell her to a human trafficker." Her grandmother looks reluctant. "She's too small, and she's a girl. The traffickers won't want her." Her grandfather frowns anxiously. "Maybe we could ask someone who can't have children," her mother suggests a way to save her. "There's an old nun at the mountain convent, a widower and a widow living alone in the village, and a couple at my parents' place who can't have children. Failing that, we could ask her second uncle..." It's a good plan, but you only have one extra child, so why are you promising her to several families at once? Can a child be shared too? And... why is this world full of demons and monsters that keep coming right up to her? Nobody wants this kind of love and attention, okay!