The Blessed Girl Works the Fields, and Her Family Regrets It to the Core

The moment she opens her eyes, she’s back from the apocalypse. Given another life, Su Yanyan has no intention of repeating her old mistakes. When her mother tries the same old trick of making her give her “good match” to her cousin from another branch of the family, she exposes her affair with her uncle instead. Then she cuts ties with her family at once and chooses her own path: becoming a child bride in the Zhao household. But the Zhao family is even poorer than she imagined. Her father-in-law has vanished, her mother-in-law is all bark and no bite, her handsome husband is otherwise useless, and a whole brood of younger brothers and sisters-in-law are clamoring to be fed. To keep the family alive, she has no choice but to return to her old ways. She grabs a woodcutter’s hatchet and heads up the mountain, then rolls up her trouser legs and wades into the river. That’s when she discovers that this family isn’t at all like she’d heard. Her husband isn’t as worthless as people say, and neither is her mother-in-law as bad-tempered as she’s made out to be. In fact, she’s a wonderful cook. Her younger brothers and sisters-in-law are all obedient, sensible, and respectful of her as their eldest sister-in-law. As the family’s fortunes steadily improve, she even gets her incorrigible husband into an academy and helps him earn an official degree. The rumors that she was a bringer of bad luck are thoroughly disproved, and everyone agrees she’s the Zhao family’s lucky star.