The Encyclopedic Harvest: Cultivating Riches in Lean Years

Author(s): September Blaze 九月流火

Associated Name(s): 手握百科全书，我在荒年种田暴富

Description:

After accidentally falling into the river and being rescued by a strange man, Song Zhaodi found herself dumped by a fiancé who already had a mistress on the side—and he even demanded back the betrothal gifts.

Beating her chest and stamping her feet, her grandmother wailed, "I always said those little girls were nothing but money pits! I'll never be able to show my face in public again!"

Song Zhaodi snapped right on the spot. "You old money pit, if you can't show your face, just stuff it down your pants! Such a big deal over nothing!"

"And as for this bullshit name 'Zhaodi'—beckoning a brother? Screw that, I don't want it anymore. From now on, my name is Song Xingchen!"

Everyone in the village whispered that the eldest Song girl had water in her brain—she had completely lost her mind!

When her fake, two-faced best friend tried to corner her with, "It takes two hands to clap, you know," Song Xingchen answered back with a swift, merciless backhand slap. "Does that sound like it took two hands to you?!"

The once submissive, long-suffering little lamb had transformed into an unyielding, fierce shrew. She could twist logic even when she was in the wrong, and she showed zero mercy when she was in the right.

Her ultimate life motto: "None of my damn business, none of your damn business!"

Building wealth, seeing through toxic schemers, and putting trash in their place—she did it all.

When nosy relatives tried to throw shade, "With a reputation as trashy as yours, why aren't you rushing to get married off?"
Song Xingchen rolled her eyes. "At your age, why aren't you rushing to kick the bucket?"

The very next day, the most notorious local bully of the village came forward to propose marriage to Song Xingchen.

Everyone was convinced Song Xingchen’s days of misery had finally begun, eagerly waiting to watch her get beaten, scolded, and eventually abandoned by the brute.

They waited and waited...
Only to watch Song Xingchen go from starving to eating fish and meat at every single meal, moving out of a crumbling, leaking shack and into a grand courtyard of blue bricks and grey tiles. They even caught the fearsome bully, Shen Che, kneeling on one knee while Song Xingchen ruthlessly twisted his ear in a lecture.

And the craziest twist of all? The village bully Shen Che somehow ended up rising through the ranks to become a Grand General, while the shrewish Song Xingchen was bestowed with a prestigious First-Rank Imperial Noble Consort title!

Everyone sighed that the heavens must have simply dropped food straight into Song Xingchen’s lap.

Song Xingchen: "Darn right! With my koi fish luck and an all-knowing encyclopedia cheat code, living the high life is only natural, isn't it?"