Exiled a Thousand Miles, the Farm Girl Becomes Empress

As she froze to death on a snowy night, Shen Shuangxu finally realized that the poor scholar she had married hadn't been feeding her warming soup, but poison that would eat through her insides! And the coat her cousin had brought wasn't meant to keep her warm, but was a death warrant!

Reborn in a dilapidated temple, she overheard the two plotting to hand her over to the escort officer in exchange for their lives. She smiled.

With her family's ancestral Manual of Heavenly Crafts and Commodities in hand, she reported the Zhou family's secret stash of silver notes and won her freedom from their control. The Ghostcry Plains, the land of exile? A wasteland to everyone else, but fertile soil in her eyes!

She improved the saline soil to grow Frost's Descent wheat, built wind-powered waterwheels to channel fresh water, and led the elderly, the weak, and the convicted in building a prosperous village.

Who could have guessed that the silent convict with a