The Happy Days of Being a Factory Owner in London

After getting hooked on a certain farming game, Arna discovered it had just released a new London DLC.

What was she waiting for? Download, of course! Time to plant vegetables all over the globe—let’s go!

After a flurry of operations as fierce as a tiger¹, she entered the map and fell silent, staring at the starting status on her character panel: 【Dispossessed Farmer】.

Farming vegetables? In nineteenth-century London? Me?
For real?

Clutching the introductory letter provided by the game and her new identity from the expansion, Arna got to work with tears in her eyes.

Well, since I’m already here, why not start by becoming a big-shot factory owner?

Mrs. Hudson’s country relative has come to the city.

At first, everyone thought this was a simple, honest, and taciturn country bumpkin.

Soon, they discovered this was an audacious, arrogant, insufferably conceited megalomaniac.

…After all, what normal person says nothing upon meeting a neighbour, routinely hops the wall to get into their backyard, digs up dirt on the street to plant vegetables, and silently shoves rubbish at people?

Arna, who heads out with a fishing rod over her shoulder at six every morning: Huh? Who? Me?

After a period of intense grinding² at her starter factory, she was utterly stunned to see her inexplicably maxed-out level, the off-the-charts affection meters of her worker NPCs, and the 【Philanthropist Factory Owner】 title above her head.

…Wait, who is this? Me?

Oh no, and what’s with that health bar turning pink? I didn’t install a romance mod in this game!

A certain detective who shall not be named and is always receiving rubbish: …

Reading Tips

1. The male lead is Sherlock Holmes, the classic literary version of Lao Fu. The setting is the 19th-century Victorian era, but this is my personal take on a literary crossover, so it’s very loosely based! Please enter with caution if you are a stickler for historical accuracy. TT
2. The female lead has cheats. She is female from beginning to end. The historical setting and the power of a mysterious system cause many people to mistake her for a man. There is a ‘woman-disguised-as-a-man’ plot that the female lead is completely unaware of (she didn’t check the player name suffix when gaming and one-click-skipped the tutorial). The female lead is NOT a man! The female lead is NOT using a male avatar! The female lead does NOT look like a man! Please don’t imagine things that aren’t there, ahhh…
3. A crossover of famous literature, featuring many strange character cameos. Crossovers include 《The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes》, 《Oliver Twist》, 《Jane Eyre》, 《Pride and Prejudice》, 《Gone with the Wind》, 《Tess of the d’Urbervilles》, 《The Count of Monte Cristo》, 《Les Misérables》, and more…
4. This is probably an infrastructure-building, farming, slice-of-life story (nods).

Content Tags: Western Famous Literature, Western Romance, Shuangwen (Power Fantasy), Business Management, Infrastructure Building, Lighthearted

Other Tags: Crossover of Famous Literature; Sherlock Holmes

One-Line Summary: A dispossessed farmer finds re-employment in the big city.

Theme: The most beautiful music of the soul is kindness.