Wen Nian was once a botanist. After a ridiculous accident, she transmigrated into the body of a farm girl who had been mistreated by her aunt, had her food stolen by her cousin, and fainted from hunger in a woodshed.
She found herself in the borderlands, where the first thing she saw upon opening her eyes was barren saline soil. The people had been driven from their homes.
And the person she had to rely on was none other than Xiao Jue, a once-renowned prince and battle god who had been stripped of his title and exiled, now as cold as an ice sculpture.
Xiao Jue was taciturn, his eyes filled with nothing but deathly stillness. He distrusted her “farming skills,” but when he saw her grow crops using the spiritual spring in her pocket dimension, excitement flashed in his eyes.
When others made things difficult for her, he silently stepped in front of her, pointing his sword at them. “She has my protection.”
The jade pendant Wen Nian had carried since childhood contained a pocket dimension with a thousand varieties of high-yield seeds and a spiritual spring that could improve the soil. She rolled up her sleeves and reclaimed the land, refined salt, grew medicinal herbs, and opened trade routes, making the impoverished borderlands fabulously wealthy in just a year.
Watching the little woman before him turn the impossible into reality, Xiao Jue felt his frozen heart melt completely. A fire for reclaiming power burned in his eyes. “Nian’er, come with me and fight our way back to the throne. You can rule this realm.”
Wen Nian looked at him, her eyes full of sly amusement. “Sure. Let’s take the whole realm for fun.”
So she supplied provisions and offered brilliant strategies, while he led his iron cavalry and swept away corrupt officials. The court sent assassins after them? They turned around and toppled the tyrannical regime!
At the coronation ceremony, Xiao Jue took her hand and declared each word with ringing conviction: “My empress is a divine farmer who saved the people, and I will defend this realm for her!”
From then on, the cold-faced prince became an utterly devoted husband, while the farmer girl turned empress built a flourishing nation through agriculture. Together, they ushered in a golden age!
