[Transmigration, farming, low-key growth, feel-good story] Lin Xiao wakes up on the execution platform at an ancient city's marketplace. Dazed, he realizes he's been made a scapegoat and is about to be beheaded. A huge crowd gathers below, buzzing with discussion.
The execution official gives the order: “The appointed time has come. Behead him!” Just as the executioner's great blade is about to fall, a shout rings out in the distance:
“Stay the blade!” A senior eunuch approaches with an imperial edict in hand, followed by the deposed empress. Though disheveled, she remains breathtakingly beautiful. From the crowd's conversation, Lin Xiao learns this is the treacherous minister's move after murdering the emperor and usurping the throne.
Unexpectedly, the eunuch announces in front of everyone that the deposed empress will marry Lin Xiao, and names him a marquis, granting him a fief in the war-torn, desolate lands of the northern desert. Lin Xiao's heart jolts, then his thoughts clear: Fine, he'll become the Marquis of the Northern Desert, marry the empress, and seize the realm. What's wrong with that?
Damn it, there was a lot of poison here from the beginning. I just let you go one second, and the next second you immediately become a normal person, and you still talk so awesomely and realistically that you think the ancients were fools. If you dare to do this, you will basically die in minutes.