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I Transmigrated as a Poor Village Widow with a Kid, and Rose to Riches in Ancient Times

share time: 2025-10-03 12:43:21

Modern corporate slave Lin Xiaoman died from staying up late to finish a proposal. When she woke up, she became A Tao, a widow in an ancient poor mountain village—her house was empty, not even half a bowl of rice on the stove, and beside her lay her three-year-old son Xiaodouzi, burning with a high fever. The village bully came daily to force her to give up her three acres of thin land; villagers gossiped she was a “husband-killing curse,” and even selling wild berries at the foot of the mountain got her squeezed out by competitors. Desperate, she used modern “experiential marketing”: boiling wild fruits from the back mountain into preserves and setting up a tasting stall at the village entrance, winning over peddlers to open sales. She also used Excel bookkeeping skills to help the grocery store sort out messy accounts, gaining villagers’ trust. But just as her business boomed, the bully set fire to her workshop and falsely accused her of “using sorcery” to the county magistrate. Lin Xiaoman fought back—she put out the fire with modern fire-fighting knowledge, then turned her preserves into “health-preserving candied fruits” for the county magistrate’s wife’s birthday banquet, becoming an overnight hit with the “imperial chef descendant” gimmick (which she made up). Orders flooded in from the county to the capital. Just as she saved enough to treat Xiaodouzi’s illness, her “dead husband,” missing for five years, suddenly returned with a silk-clad nobleman, demanding to “take back his son”…

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