Starting with Tooth Powder: A Fisherwoman's Road to Fortune

After transmigrating into the body of a fisherman's daughter in a small fishing village, Wen Chu finds her parents lost at sea, leaving behind her young siblings and a debt of one tael of silver.

On her first day after transmigrating, the creditor comes to collect, threatening to take her younger sister as payment. Wen Chu points out that he doesn't understand the laws of the land and manages to delay repayment for thirty days.

But the family has no fishing boat, can't go out to sea or catch fish, and has no source of income. Wen Chu experiments with tooth powder and earns enough to keep them alive.

In autumn, she gathers oil-tea seeds and saves some to plant, gradually building an oil-tea grove.

Winter is bitterly cold, and people in the village even freeze to death. Through the county magistrate, Xie Yuan, Wen Chu meets a foreign merchant and buys cotton seeds. She begins testing cotton cultivation, and eventually the entire fishing village starts expanding its fields to grow cotton. After that, no one freezes to death in winter again.

Wen Chu: Magistrate Xie, do you like me?

Xie Yuan: I have feelings for you, Miss Wen.

Wen Chu: I'm only a merchant's daughter.

Xie Yuan: Scholars, farmers, artisans, and merchants all make their living in their own way. You have developed local produce and brought prosperity to your neighbors. Your contributions to the people surpass even my own. It is you I admire, not your status.