Blow Up the Marquis's Mansion First, Then Flee the Famine

[Cold-blooded Rakshasa heroine + disabled beauty hero + rise from adversity + political intrigue + satisfying revenge + nation-building + the fate of the country and its people]

Once a sickly girl, overnight she became a cold-eyed Rakshasa who held life and death in her hands. She watched impassively as her uncles took bribes and tried to sell off land to save themselves, heedless of the people’s lives. Mu Nian only smiled. If that was how they wanted it, she would blow up the granary and burn the family records, cleaning house in that corrupt marquis’s estate.

With a great flood on the way, she took her mother and younger sister north. A spirit spring cured disease, and concrete walls fortified the city. Amid the wasteland, she built a paradise.

Only the disabled beauty she had picked up along the way, Long Hu (Long Ming), grew more dangerous by the day. Eventually, he conquered three kingdoms and came before her clad in bloodstained armor, kneeling at her feet. “I offer you my empire as a bride price. I will be the blade in your hand forever.”

The once-glorious marquis’s estate had long since fallen. Across the fertile lands of Jiangbei, stretching for thousands of miles, everyone honored her as the Lady Marquis.