The Age of Rebirth: Lazy Man’s Hot Daughter-in-law Has Space

Liang Xiaonan has transmigrated into the body of a girl who had been beaten to death by her scumbag father. She and her brother had been treated very badly by her father since he got married with a woman with 2 children (son and daughter). She has transmigrated to a world similar to earth in the end 60s / beginning 70s.

In her previous life she was a very succesful businesswoman and died of overworking.

In her new life she gets a magical space with a spring well.

The first thing she does when she wakes up is break off her engagement by using force on him (she is physically very strong) and separate from her father. Her brother Liang Xiaobai and her grandmother follow her. 

She starts out by getting fish from the pond and pears from a pear tree by pouring spring water on it and selling this in the nearby town.

Her space tells her she get points by letting people laugh and upgrade her space this way. So she starts telling jokes to her younger brother. She later finds out she also gets points by making people happy.

She can get all kinds of seeds from her space.

She opens a fishing pond to sell fish to a restaurant in town and starts growing potatoes which she will also sell to the restaurant.

She meets Zhou Yan while getting pears from a tree in the forest and he gives her some animals he hunted in exchange for pears. Zhou Yan is from a nearby village and is known as a lazy man. He lives with his grandparents (his parents were wealthy and died) who were intellectuals and teachers. He does not work on the fields.

MC also meets a wolf cub in the forest with his mother who asks her for spring water when he smells her. She asks the wolf cub to guard a few ginseng she planted in the forest. When the wolf cub and his mother try to defend MC's fish pind from thieves they are hunted by the villagers and the mother later dies. The wolf cub is left alone. The wolf cub becomes wary of humans but continues to defend MC's ginseng when it is about to grow fruit and when other animals want to take the fruit. MC and ML are almost killed by animals when they are trying to get the fruit. They are hunted until they manage to eat them to hide the smell. MC hid a few in her space and feeds those to her brother and a few to the wolf.

Pretty soon Zhou Yan offers to grow potatoes on his fields and he proposes to her. MC accepts. 

MC gets attention from higher ups because of the high quality of her crops and fish and she gets a experimental field to grow other plants. A little later she also gets a large field to grow other plants. She decides to start to grow silkworms and creates a factory in ML's village where the people can work or they can grow silkworms at home.

She does not want to create a business in her own town because the villagers treat her badly. This is caused by her stepsister and stepmother and 2 broken engagements. They keep causing trouble for her.

We later find out the stepsister is reborn and is jealous of the life her sister had. She killed her sister and was in return killed by ML for killing her. She is reborn at the age of 12 and has been planning to take over MC's chances in this life. She knows that MC saved a wealthy woman's life and will later be taken in by that woman and her son will fall in love with MC. She will fall in love with the son who never sees her. She decides to change her first name and pretends she is the one who saved that woman when she comes looking for her savure years later. By then she has married a man whom she has poisoned so he becomes impotent. She has also been feeding poison to Liang Xiaobei since he was 10.

When her space grows, MC can grow medicinal herbs in her space and she starts growing ginseng and other herbs in her space. She feeds her brother enough ginseng fruits to get rid of the poison in his body and of a scar on his face caused by his father (instigated by stepsister).

MC notices her brother can sing well and want to let him study singing. ML tames them to a very large city and introduces them to a well-known singer whose health is bad. She also meets her grandparents in this town. It turns out her mother and uncle had been kidnapped when they were children and her grandparents had been looking for them ever since. They recognize MC because she looks so much like her mother.

When MC goes back to her village she decides to dig up her mother and build a tomb for her so her grandparents can visit the tomb. Her mother's remains have been preserved because there is mercury in the ground and it turns out she has been killed by her father. MC turns her father in to the police. He has been told by the stepsister that her mother cheated on him with stepsister's father and MC's father killed her mother because of that. He also believed MC and her brother were not his children because of the lies told by stepsister. 

After the father is imprisoned (he gets executed), the grandmother starts blaming MC. He has always been her favourite, though she followed the grandchildren when they separated. The stepbrother gets fired from the army and starts gambling. He tells grandmother he can hire a master to give her son a good life in the next life. She starts demanding huge amounts of money from MC (100.000 yuan while a salary in the village will be about 20 yuan a month if they have it good). She also sells all the furniture and goods in the house. MC decides to gice her the money and see what she does with it. She sees her handing it to the stepbrother and steals it back with her space (she can take goods from a distance with her space and also sense things from a large distance). The stepbrother gets beaten up by his money lenders when trying to pay back and asks for more. Grandmother gets another 100.000 from MC which she again takes back. This time stepbrother tries to kill grandmother. MC tries to show grandmother he is just trying to con her, but she can't get it and goes mental.

MC decides to feed her grandmother a ginseng fruit and her mentality recovers, but she still blames MC and her grandson for the death of her son.

When grandmother tries to arrange a marriage for MC's brother who is how in the north singing for the army, MC tells her she will file a complaint about forced marriage to the government if she tries to do this. Grandmother has taken in family members who look like her son and planned to marry their daughter / sister to Xiaobei. These family members try to take advantage of MC.

MC decides to sell all the fish in the fishing pond and not grow fish anymore, stopping their plans to get free fish.

There is a large flood in a different part of the country. MC and ML go there to give help. By this time she has a large field in her space and can grow lots of foods very fast. While driving a car their car gets flooded away and MC takes ML intk her space to save their lives (somewhere after ch 400). ML starts experimenting growing crops and harvesting them with the large machinery she has.

MC gets a position as the director of a large state owned company and this way she can more easily get rid of the crops she grows in her space. This becomes a huge success.

MC hears that grandmother now wants to arrange her marriage and destroy her marriage plans with ML. She gets married in the city she lives in now according to the Zhou family rules and arranges a banquet in ML's village. In MC's village the towns people who have improved a lot stop grandmother from interfering in the banquet.

MC takes her hands of her grandmother and does not care for her anymore.

MC gives her brother access to her space and later also gives Xie Haoyun access to her space when he is wanted by the government. Xie Haoyun has been helping MC getting ancient treasures of their country so they won't be destroyed. He travels to America and starts an investment company for them with his people. He later becomes a buddhist monk.

14 years later MC has a daugther and a son. She finds out grandmother has died a few years ago and her father's family has kept this a secret to keep receiving pension. Xiaobei has become a very famous singer and actor. The wolf has become a very powerful leader of a wolf pack.

MC has become extremely wealthy. Everyone now finds out that ML is the owner of a huge shipping yard / company. He started this company when he was about 17.

When the wolf is 35 and MC about 50, he entrusts one of his descendants who is weak to MC. He has gotten old and probably will not live much longer. He refuses to live in her space.

MC and ML enjoy their pension and travel the world, leaving their companies to their children. They have built a large palace and placed all the treasures that were assumed lost in it, so everyone can enjoy and view them.

The antagonist Zang Xinyi (stepsister) remains in the story for a long time. She accuses MC of stealing her credit when planting herbs that help against malaria, tries to poison MC and grandmother with anthrax, poses herself as a fortuneteller to the family that took her in and steals their money (which should have belonged to ML), which MC later gets. She is forcefully married to the father of her ex-husband who want her to give him a child, because ex can't have children because of poisoning. She gets r*ped by different men. Is later forced to marry a violent man (she wanted MC to marry that man), whom she kills by burning him. A monk on MC's side lets her drink something that gives her amnesia. The family leaves her alone in a town far away and she probably dies miserable.

Grandmother had a huge change. I first thought that she was one of few of novels about this era that was good, but that turned out different.

Xie Haoyun's life was saved a few times by MC. He had been a huge underground leader and handed most of his properties to the government. His ex compratiots have been trying to kill him ever since. He helps MC find a huge amount of treasures that families can't keep and she gives food in return. She also helps him sell food to the government for low prices to help the people who are starving. 

2 - Tang Yuan transmigrates to the year 1973 in a novel she has read. In this novel her cousin Tang Xian is the Female Lead. She has transmigrated and will marry an educated youth who is working in their village, will be accepted at the best college when universities are opened again because of her knowledge of the future and lead a prosperous life. Tang Yuan and her parents will have a bad life.

Tang Yuan's grandmother has always favoured her eldest son and their children. Tang Yuan and her parents were always at the short end of the stick. The best food was reserved for the grandson and the eldest son. Tang Yuan's parents are very filial and work the hardest. Her eldest uncle took a job as leader in their village which was supposed to have gone to Tang Yuan's father. To seem impartial he gives Tang Yuan's parents the most difficult jobs. 

In the future her uncle's family will insist on Tang Yuan exchanging marriage to get her cousing Tang Wu a wife. Tang Yuan will have a miserable life with her husband. Tang Wu's wife will decide to leave him in the future which will lead to him taking explosoves from the village and threaten to kill himself. Tang Yuan's father will try to interfere, but can't prevent the explosions from going off, harming his leg which will never be healed. The family doesn't have the money to send him to the hospital. They spend the money they have to heal Tang Wu. This will end with the eldest uncle's family having a good life partially because of Tang Xian's success later on. Tang Yuan and her parents will lead a miserable life.

Tang Yuan immediately decides they will have to split the family. She knows her grandmother and father will not agree, so she decides to act crazy to get her uncle insist on splitting the family. She attacks her aunt and cousin when she sees them, destroys their kitchenware, behaves irrationally and finally succeeds. They first start living in the stables with a former landowner's family who also live there.

Tang Yuan meets Feng Chen, who will have great success in the novel. He is growing crops in the mountains in secret and will have great success farming all over the world. In the novel he will always remain single. She decides to approach him and see if she can help him. Tang Yuan was a poverty alleviation officer in her previous life, doing her best to let the poor live a better life. She is quite idealistic in trying to help the people and her country.

Feng Chen has transmigrated from an apocalyptic world. He was the last person to die in their area. After the apocalypse came, crops couldn't grow anymore, zombies came and slowly everyone died. He was very strong in his previous life. He is still strong and has excellent hearing. He is obsessed with having enough food and decided to start farming in the mountains himself to grow food. 

His original body didn't work in the commune. His parents died when he was young and he was raised by his grandmother. He tried all kinds of things to get work in the city where his uncle works as well, but never succeeded. He got the wrong friends and was knocked on his head and died in an alley. 

Feng Chen is impressed by how much Tang Yuan knows about farming and other things. He quickly starts to suspect she has transmigrated as well. Tang Yuan gets along very well with Feng Chen's grandmother. She reminds her of her own grandmother. She was raised by her grandparents and wasn't close fo her parents in her precious life. Her father remarried someone else after the death of her mother. Her family is allowed to live with the Tang family until they can build their own home. 

He brings her along to the mountains to show her the fields he has opened up. She gives him a lot of advice on how to improve that. They stay in the mountains for about 10 days each time. They get engaged and the family has no problems with them going to the mountains for longer times periodically. The engagement is fake at first, but soon changes into a real engagement.

Feng Chen is a very good hunter, bringing meat home every time, while the other villagers almost never get to eat meat. Tang Yuan helps him gather herbs and sell them to his uncle's hospital. The uncle is genuinely happy his nephew is doing well. 

Tang Yuan starts to advise the commune, getting them to dig a pit in their village to get methane gas, so they can have electricity and gas in their village. She gets the help from a new leader in the county who is saved by the couple after he was robbed. This becomes a big success. They then build a pig stable to start raising and selling pigs. She convinces them to do everything in an ecological way, ensuring that their products can later be sold to other countries. There is some resistance from officials who get profit by keeping things for themselves, but they manage to get the approval of the county. Then she gets approval to build a can factory in their village, so they can can their own meat and other products. Their village is slowly improving and everyone's lives get better. 

Everyone greatly admires the couple who get in contact with more and more important people. Tang Yuan also meets several foreigners and mananges to sell their products to their companies, insuring that they sell everything they produce. 

In 1977 they do the college entrance exams and are accepted in the best universities. Feng Chen who is very intelligent decides to study machinery. He might later get accepted by the military.

Tang Xian falls down a month before the exams and transmigrates again. She finds out only part of her soul had transmigrated before. She had written a novel when she was young describing herself as very intelligent and letting Tang Yuan who is her half-sister she dislikes have a miserable life. In reality Tang Xian is not very intelligent and barely passes the entrance exam, doing much worse than in the novel.

It's an okay novel, with MC and ML not getting rich with their knowledge from the future for a change. MC wants to improve their village and country and ML just wants to be with MC. Tang Xian dislikes Tang Yuan, but never really causes any trouble for her. Tang Yuan's grandmother now shows she loves both her sons and is happy that her other son and his family are doing well. Tang Yuan never grows close to her grandmother. The couple doesn't have any real problems. The villagers cooperate quite well with Tang Yuan's ideas, except for a few who don't cause any real trouble.

We don't know if Tang Wu's wife will stay with him after his wife is accepted at college. I also would have liked to know what happens to the landowner's family who seemed nice.