Transmigrated into a Book In the 1970s, a Cannon Fodder Raises Her Children with a Golden Finger

Lin Ruxia is a twenty-five-year-old woman who recently graduated from university abroad and is preparing to join her family’s company. While relaxing at home, she reads a melodramatic novel titled "The Struggle Life of a Reborn Rural Girl," which features a character sharing her name. The story follows a woman who marries into a rural family in the 1970s, bears fourteen sons without working or raising them, and eventually meets a tragic end. Deeply unsettled by the narrative, Lin Ruxia goes shopping with her best friend, Ah Xin. A catastrophic car accident occurs when a truck crashes into her vehicle, killing her. For a year, she exists as a spirit, watching her grieving family and her friend, who blames herself for the tragedy. Ah Xin leaves the novel as a gift at Lin Ruxia’s grave, and when a gust of wind opens it, Lin Ruxia is pulled into the book.

She transmigrates into the body of the novel’s third daughter-in-law, Song Zhicheng’s wife, who is currently unconscious after hitting her head. Lin Ruxia inherits the memories of a woman who spent ten years giving birth to fourteen sons while doing no labor, relying entirely on her husband’s military allowance and the Song family’s support. The original host was selfish, neglectful, and favored only two of her children. Upon waking, Lin Ruxia discovers she has a mysterious spatial mall from her previous life, which contains food, clothing, and other supplies. She realizes she is pregnant again and faces an immediate crisis: the Song family is dividing their household due to tensions over resources and the burden of her large family.

The Song patriarch announces the division, allocating minimal resources to the third branch. Lin Ruxia pretends to be weak and pitiful to navigate the hostile environment, which includes her critical mother-in-law and resentful sisters-in-law. She learns that the novel’s heroine, Song San Ya, orchestrated the split to escape her family’s favoritism. Lin Ruxia uses her spatial abilities to secure funds and goods, purchasing an abandoned estate at the end of the village. She takes her three eldest sons to town, where they experience a rare meal of pork noodles and meat buns at a state-run restaurant. There, she discovers the existence of a black market and arranges to sell ten thousand jin of rice to its boss, Xu Jin, in exchange for significant amounts of money and various ration coupons.

Returning to the village, Lin Ruxia begins to change her parenting style. She provides her children with nutritious meals, new clothes, and shoes, shocking the family who expected her to continue neglecting them. She establishes rules for hygiene and education, planning to send all her sons to school. Her actions draw jealousy from neighbors and suspicion from her in-laws, particularly when she cooks meat dishes that fill the house with aroma. She also interacts with new educated youths arriving in the village, including a scholarly man and two women, one of whom seems to recognize her from the capital. Lin Ruxia resolves to build a stable life for her children, using her modern knowledge and spatial resources to overcome the hardships of the era while keeping her supernatural advantage secret.

As she settles into her new role, Lin Ruxia faces the challenge of raising twelve young boys and two infants alone, especially with her husband still stationed in the army. She navigates the complex dynamics of the divided Song family, where the original heroine San Ya is now struggling with her own poverty and resentment. Lin Ruxia’s transformation from a neglectful mother to a caring parent disrupts the original plot, causing ripples that affect San Ya’s fate and the family’s future. She continues to source goods from her spatial mall, selling them on the black market to fund her children’s education and the purchase of the estate. The story follows her efforts to protect her children from the tragedies that befell them in the novel, such as being sold by traffickers or dying from neglect, while she establishes a secure and prosperous household in the rural countryside.