My Ex-Husband Is Exiled on the Day We Divorce, So I Empty the Storeroom

[Historical Farming + Exile and Flight from Famine + Strong Female Lead + Feel-Good Story + Stockpiling Supplies + Protecting Her Husband (Ex-Husband)]

Su Nanzhi, a hunter’s daughter, marries Gu Qinglan, a young man from a declining branch of a marquis’s family, to repay a debt of gratitude. After three years of marriage, enduring cold treatment and suffocating rules, Su Nanzhi finally snaps when her sister-in-law makes things difficult for her. She drags the mild-mannered Gu Qinglan along to sign a divorce agreement.

Who could have guessed that just after she receives the divorce papers, the Gu family would be implicated by the main branch and sentenced to exile along with six generations of their clan?

The good news: She has just divorced and is spared the punishment by association.

The bad news: Her frail ex-husband and kind mother-in-law are likely to die on the road to exile.

Su Nanzhi acts at once. Using the divorce papers as her excuse to demand her dowry, she openly takes back her own belongings and, in the chaos, makes off with the Gu family’s hidden treasury of banknotes and valuable jewelry. When her greedy, bloodsucking mother and stepfather try to sell her off again, Su Nanzhi beats them until they give up the idea. Then she takes her household registration and travel permit, sets off with two loyal servants, buys a mule cart and supplies, and secretly follows the exile procession.

Her ex-husband is too weak to keep walking? She secretly bribes the guards. Bandits attack on the road? With her natural, freakish strength, she beats them until they call her their ancestor. Fighting her way through one challenge after another, she protects her ex-husband’s family and eventually builds her own paradise in the wilderness.

World and setting: A fictional ancient dynasty, where factional struggles at court ensnare the innocent. The exile lands in the frigid, desolate Northwest are overrun by wild beasts.

Opening hook: Just after Su Nanzhi receives her divorce papers and walks out of the county office, officials arrive with cangues to confiscate the family’s property and send them into exile. Using her divorce papers, she narrowly escapes and brazenly makes off with a large amount of property right in front of the officials.