The Farmer's Wife Claims an Island as Her Kingdom, and Even Her Dead Husband Comes Back to Life

[Building a career + no romance + System]

A note of caution: The protagonist is female, but the whole story uses “he” for her. Whenever gender is unclear, assume the character is female.

When Jiang Qian’an wakes up, she has become an exiled convict captured by pirates.

He can feel the original host’s fury.

The original host’s first husband joined the army and died on the battlefield.

The second husband went to the capital to sit the imperial examinations, then sent word that he had died of illness.

He supported three younger sisters-in-law, a mother-in-law, and two daughters by working as a weaver.

When the Gao family took an interest in him, he thought he was about to rise from sparrow to phoenix. Little did he know they only wanted to trick him into bearing a son.

After he gave birth to a girl and a boy, the Gao family claimed that twins brought bad luck. They kept the boy and drove him and his daughter out.

He took the Gao family to the local court.

The magistrate colluded with the Gao family, and the court instead convicted him of falsely accusing a noble family and disrupting the courtroom, sentencing his whole family to exile and forced labor at the Lingzhou salt fields.

Just after arriving in Lingzhou, pirates came ashore to plunder, and he was carried off to their island.

He killed the pirate chief in turn and made himself ruler of the island.

He ruled the seas as the undisputed king of the Southern Seas.

The imperial court sent troops to attack, but he drove them back again and again.

Jiang Qian’an’s name was written into a memorial and delivered to the court of the Great Sheng dynasty.

Her dead husbands came back to life one after another.

The first husband, who had died in battle, became a general of the imperial court, married a noblewoman from a marquis’s household, and was sent to suppress the pirates. He didn’t last a single exchange before Jiang Qian’an struck him down with one blow. This time, he really did die on the battlefield.

The second husband, who had supposedly died of illness, became a rising star at court, married the daughter of the current Grand Secretary, and was sent to persuade her to surrender. Jiang Qian’an said, “If you’re so eager to come here and hand me your head, I won’t be polite.” His supposed death from illness turned into a death wish.

The husband who had tricked her became the court’s new Grand Secretary. Holding an imperial decree appointing him king, he came to the forefront