Our Whole Family Serves as Household Attendants in the Northern Song

After waking up in the body of a newborn, fashion designer Jin Yu finds herself in Bianjing, the Northern Song capital. The good news: she’s part of the official Feng family, a prestigious clan of scholars. The bad news: she’s only a low-ranking servant in the sewing room, born into a family of slaves. The truly bizarre news: respectable families are full of filth, and no one in Jin Yu’s large family can be relied on. A mother who earns extra cash by spreading gossip; a sister-in-law who fights dogs over half a rice cake; a father and elder brother who’ve been missing for years. There’s no time to fall apart. First, she sets herself a modest goal: buy her whole family’s freedom and free them from their slave status. Drawing on her former expertise as a fashion designer, Jin Yu first secures her place in the sewing room, then takes her family out to sell snacks. Improved Suzhou embroidery, Sichuan embroidery, and other styles; jasmine drinks and fragrant dried tofu... They save up copper coins one by one and work their way up the ranks, while she turns down becoming her master’s concubine and avoids becoming a young master’s concubine. All the servant families in the compound laugh: Sister Yu is beautiful, but she’s really stupid. But when they look back, that family has already left the estate, bought farmland, opened shops, chartered merchant ships, and built a thriving business! Now the former masters, the Feng family, are in a panic, and Fourth Miss Feng has completely lost her bearings. (With an outstretched hand) Please don’t go! We’ll pay you more!!!