The Authorities Forced a Sickly, Obsessive Wife on Me, So I Used the System to Become a Marquis

During the chaotic border years of the Great Yu Dynasty, the government enforced marriages. The down-and-out scholar Nan Wangshu unexpectedly brought home Pan Yuxin, the daughter of a disgraced official. When they first met in their ramshackle home, she concealed the sharpness of a military family’s daughter, while he hid a scholar’s forbearance. From “joining forces to avoid trouble” to gradually falling for each other, they bound their fates together amid suspicion and testing.

With her ingenuity, Pan Yuxin drove off local thugs and exposed a wrongful case. Through the Bonded Hearts System, Nan Wangshu gained farming and irrigation skills. Together, the couple reclaimed land, wove cloth, opened a school, and built businesses. They dealt with Lieutenant Zhu Guicheng’s schemes, joined forces with Western Region merchants to open up the Silk Road, and resolved threats from the northern Di tribes. Amid the chaos, they built cities and brought peace to the people, transforming the ruined frontier into a major cotton-spinning hub.

The woman who had once been “assigned as a wife” became a noble lady, while the poor scholar rose to become a frontier marquis. The cooking smoke from Wangyu Residence mingled with the beacon fires on the border, bearing witness to the legend of a couple who went from an unwilling marriage arranged by the government to joining hands to safeguard their country. It turned out the best match wasn’t one bestowed by the government, but two people who stood by each other through life and death over the years.