She wakes up in a stranger's body on a straw pallet—bruised, fat, and wearing a matchmaker's makeup. The modern woman who remembers city life and bank passwords now has to survive in a small county where family honor, favors, and rumor can ruin you overnight. Instead of wasting time mourning, she turns disadvantages into weapons: business sense, two decades of modern know-how, and a body that can lift a water jar like nothing. She will sell pots, brand sauces, rebuild toilets, fight corrupt rivals, out-bid crooked officials, and turn a dusty market stall into the seed of an empire that protects her family and rewrites a county’s rules. This is the story of a woman who refused to be a victim twice. She will bargain, brawl, bribe—then build. What starts as survival becomes transformation: for her family, the town, and the life she never expected to lead.
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