Help! My Rough Farmhand Is a Tyrant

Jiang Ning is a clear-eyed woman who cares about nothing but money.

On a snowy night, she brought home a bloodied stranger. She thought she'd found a strapping laborer who would chop wood for free and keep her bed warm, but the more she put him to work, the stranger he became.

By day, he worked without complaint, letting her pinch every last coin on her abacus;

by night, he turned the tables. His rough, burning hands pinned her firmly to the bed as he panted hoarsely by her ear, demanding payment: “Doctor Jiang, shouldn't you settle today's bodyguard fee with your body?”

Then one day, her hired hand transformed into a mad tyrant who killed without batting an eye, and insisted on making her his empress!

Jiang Ning nearly fainted. “I'm done making money!” She took a fake-death pill and fled south under cover of night!

But her peaceful days lasted only a few days before the tyrant, his eyes bloodshot with rage, abandoned his vast empire and chased her all the way to the water towns.

He stripped off his imperial robes and cornered her in a narrow space, his burning breath falling against her sensitive neck. His eyes were full of madness and greed so intense they seemed impossible to dispel.

“Jiang Ning, you can't just take what you want and then refuse to pay!”

The man loosened his collar, took her hand, and slowly pressed it downward, smiling like a bewitching demon.

“I'll give you the keys to the treasury and the whole Great Zhou. As for me... I'll repay you with my body, in this life and every life to come.”

[Clear-headed money-making genius doctor vs. ruthless killer outside the palace, devoted disciple of the chastity code inside it, and mad tyrant]