Fragrant Harvests: The Empress Farms Her Way to Glory

“In my last life, you left me to freeze to death on a snowy night. In this life, I’ll wield a hundred flowers as blades and offer you an empire as my betrothal gift!”

Su Wanhe is reborn in a ruined temple during a famine, with memories of her previous life seared into her heart:

Her stepmother withheld her winter clothes, leaving her to freeze to death. Her cousin took her place and married into a powerful family, while her fiancé sneered, “A farmer’s daughter has no business reaching above her station.”

On the brink of death, she binds herself to the **[System of All Things]**. Withered branches obey her commands, and seeds charge into battle at her call!

While the entire village chews on tree bark, she makes a dead tree bear fruit overnight, leaving her cousin with a bruised face.

While the great families monopolize grain seeds, she cultivates “Golden Ear Rice,” yielding a thousand jin per mu. On the day she opens the granaries, the Crown Prince arrives in person:

“Three years ago, you saved my life with a single stalk of blood-staunching herb.”

She smiles faintly. “If Your Highness wants to repay me, why not cut off those two scoundrels’ heads?”

She offers grain seeds to save the nation and is named Crown Princess, yet the great families sneer, “A peasant girl deserves the phoenix seal?”

On the day of the palace banquet, she waves her hand and makes peonies bloom throughout the city, a path of flowers leading straight to the phoenix throne:

“This empire of mine is one I grew myself!”

At the coronation, the new emperor takes her hand and gazes down the steps.

Her old enemies kneel in the imperial garden, trembling as they prune the thorns on her roses.

He brings her a bowl of plain rice, starlight spilling from his eyes:

“Your Highness, it’s time to eat. The most prestigious rice fields in the world all belong to you.”