My Sickly Husband Is a Hidden Big Shot

Shen Xinghe was an unlucky soul who worked herself to death on agricultural projects in her previous life. When she opens her eyes, she's become the Zhou Dynasty's notorious “family-wrecking lucky charm”: after three successive fiancés die because of her, she's forcibly packed off to marry Lu Huaijin, the village invalid said to be “unlikely to live out the year.”

On their wedding night, she looks at her husband coughing his lungs out and their bare-bones bridal chamber, then smiles with satisfaction.

Good. This hellish start feels familiar.

Time to show what I can really do!

And so...

A year later, her “Golden Ear” high-yield grain seeds are sold out, her chain stores have spread across the country, and she's picked up a young martial hero who eats as much as three strong men to serve as her bodyguard. She's also talked her gentle childhood friend, a scholar, into becoming her investor.

Even the Crown Prince has become her number-one customer, dropping by her shop every day. “Miss Shen, have you got any new grain seeds today? I'll pay double!”

Counting her silver notes, Shen Xinghe checks off a box on her year-end report: This year's poverty-alleviation target exceeded by 120%. Excellent!

Everything is perfect, until that night...

A gang of men in black kicks down her front door.

Her invalid husband, who coughs five times every three steps, calmly sets down his poetry collection and snaps the leader's neck with one hand.

Xie Changlan, who shows up every day for a free meal, produces the Marquis of Zhenbei's military tally. Three thousand cavalry ride in beneath the moon.

The refined and gentle Jiang Yunzhou dons a dragon-embroidered cape from the previous dynasty and sighs. “Actually... my family really does have a throne for me to inherit.”

Even the most reasonable Crown Prince, Xiao Jingheng, gently offers her the imperial seal and a cup of poisoned wine. “Xinghe, choose me, or watch them die?”

Shen Xinghe: “...”