The Brocade of Slaughter Returns with Spring

[Transmigration · household intrigue · farming and development · one devoted couple]

A note from the author: The story is complete, so feel free to dive in! Give it a chance ❤️❤️

Synopsis: Xue Wan opens her eyes to find herself the legitimate eldest daughter of the Xue family in the Great Sheng Dynasty.

Her birth mother died young, her stepmother hides a blade behind her smile, and her stepsister's jealousy is laced with poison.

You push me into the water? I'll make sure you take a tumble into the mud!

You sneak poison into my tonic? I'll turn around and send it straight down your own mother's throat!

With a smile, she dismantles every open and hidden attack, until the mask of the “perfect, virtuous lady” is torn to shreds!

The Marchioness of Zhenshuo personally delivers a marriage proposal: “My dear, my son Xiao Heng has guarded the frontier for six years. All he wants is a girl like you.”

Her stepsister Xue Jiao shrieks, “Who would marry into the frontier and live on wind and sand?”

But Xue Wan takes the black jade pendant carved with a qilin from the sandalwood box. “I will.”

Her wedding procession stretches for miles as it leaves Yanhui. There, atop the city wall, she sees a young general clad in dark armor. His sword-shaped brows are dusted with sand, his posture is straight and proud, and his gaze is so warm it makes her heart skip a beat.

On the frontier, beneath skies filled with yellow sand, she digs the first well of sweet water, and green waves of millet bloom across the wasteland.

On the night enemy forces lay siege, she presents her method for building walls with rammed earth. A storm of arrows crashes against the walls and crumbles to dust.

When the military granaries are piled high with sweet potatoes, the emperor sends an urgent decree, carried eight hundred li:

“Xue Wan, born of a distinguished family and blessed with virtue, has rendered meritorious service to the state. She is hereby promoted to the first rank as Protector of the Realm, granted an iron certificate of merit, and awarded an annual stipend equal to that of a marquis!”

Xiao Heng takes her cold hand and wraps it in his sable coat. “What use is an empty title, my lady? Better to warm yourself in my arms.”