Who could have guessed that I, who had stockpiled enough supplies to fill an entire city at the end of the world, would transmigrate into an ancient famine, as a starving village girl about to be sold for grain?
Even more unbelievable, my storage space came with me.
Fifty tons of rice, cabinets full of specialty medicine, high-yield seeds, even crossbow bolts and tranquilizer guns.
But in this chaotic age, what’s even more terrifying than the end of the world is the human heart. The village bully came to snatch me, and the villagers coveted my food. Just as I used my old comrades from the end times to wipe out the bully, I caught the eye of Xiao Che, a cold-faced imperial bodyguard commander passing through the village.
He was a powerful noble ordered to investigate the disaster, while I was a village girl with secrets. He seized my goods and probed my limits, using me as a pawn. I endured the humiliation and played along, building farms and opening trade routes with my supplies, carving a path through sheer desperation.
By the time I’d gone from a wealthy resident of Luan Shi Village to a royal merchant of Qingzhou and built my own armed forces, Xiao Che had cleared his name. Red-eyed, he told me, “I was wrong. I’ll protect you for the rest of my life.”
I smiled. In a chaotic age, I was never a doddering vine who needed a man to lean on.
But when bandits surrounded the city, he took a blade for me. When another transmigrator tried to seize my treasures, he took the blame for me. When the court was in turmoil, he used his military power to protect my business empire.
This entanglement, bitter before it turned sweet, was ultimately a meeting of equals who chose each other.
I brought billions of supplies to shatter the ancient famine, and he used half a lifetime of power to protect me for the rest of mine. In the Great Yong dynasty, where corpses littered the land, I became a legend, and at last accepted the man who had pursued me for half his life.
