Zhao Xifu, thirty-one years old, a team leader at an electronics factory, a single man past his prime, and a complete pushover.
He was about to jump off a cliff and end it all when a mysterious old man forced two secret manuals on him.
Before he could even leave the beginner’s village, an ugly woman named Ruhua hitched him to a wooden plow and made him work like an ox in the fields of the Kingdom of Women.
Later, he rescued a kidnapped girl and dug tunnels to drive off the Japanese melon cavalry.
The queen summoned him in a hurry, while the court officials waited to see him make a fool of himself.
He made a solemn pledge: dealing with the Japanese Melon Kingdom would be as easy as squashing an ant.
No one believed him.
That is, until he walked out of the Japanese Melon king’s palace alive, clutching a marriage contract promising “double the goats every day.”
The tyrant was cheerfully preparing to marry the Queen of West Liang, with no idea that a month later, there wouldn’t be enough male goats in his entire kingdom to pay the bride price.
But Zhao Xifu couldn’t bring himself to smile.
Because the ugly woman who forced him to plow, took a blade for him, and held on until her death after being stabbed twenty-three times...
would never call him a pushover again.
He would make the Japanese Melon Kingdom join her in death.
[West Liang is in peril. Its mountains and rivers are torn apart, the Mother-Child River has run dry, and the Abortion Spring has been seized.]
[An army of wolves and tigers presses from beyond the borders, a demon priest wreaks havoc, and a secret edict lies hidden in the queen’s sleeve...]
[Her only hope is a transmigrator who can’t tell the truth to save his life.]
[From the start, he’s been gambling with his life.]
