Shen Hua, a modern-day corporate workhorse and top performer, opens her eyes to find herself a poor hunter in the famine-stricken Great Qian Dynasty. Forced to marry a fifty-year-old widower to avoid the “single tax,” she flies into a rage, finds a breathtakingly handsome man on the verge of death in the mountains, and grits her teeth as she declares, “He’s my husband!”
Who would have guessed that her “frail” husband is Gu Changyuan, the powerful, ruthless Director of the Eastern Depot, who holds the whole court in his grasp?
From then on, Shen Hua takes on the tough task of providing for her family, raising her younger sister, and looking after a “living King of Hell.” Armed with modern knowledge, she excels at everything from hunting and cooking to doing business, and her life flourishes.
But the man who once looked down on her as if she were an insect finds himself falling for her before he even realizes it.
Gu Changyuan: “Woman, this is just an act.”
Later
Gu Changyuan: “Hua Hua, if anyone else so much as looks at you, I want to gouge out his eyes.”
Her younger sister, whose origins are shrouded in mystery, also brings to light a case involving a surviving descendant of the previous dynasty. As the court’s fortunes shift and the realm falls into turmoil, watch as this humble hunter’s daughter tames the mad Director, joins him in rising from country life to the halls of power, stirs up the political winds, and builds an age of prosperity!
