Transmigrate into a book and flee famine + stockpiling in a storage space + raise a future chief minister + devoted one-on-one romance
Shen Zhaozhao transmigrates into a book and becomes the male lead’s cruel child bride. She abuses him, withholds his food, and is ultimately exiled and left to die.
When she opens her eyes, she has just shoved the sickly male lead to the ground, and her horrible mother-in-law is about to sell her to an old bachelor in exchange for food.
Shen Zhaozhao slaps her back, tears up the marriage contract, and snaps, “Let whoever wants to marry him do it. I’m not marrying him. I already have a husband.”
On the road as they flee famine, everyone expects her to starve to death or be abandoned.
What they don’t know is that Lin Wan has a 1,000-square-meter storage space stocked with everything from spirit spring water and seeds to grain and medicine.
While everyone else is gnawing on tree bark, she secretly cooks noodles for the male lead’s younger siblings and gives them spirit spring water to drink.
She nurses the frail male lead back to robust health, and his future chief-minister bearing begins to show.
He goes from wary to dependent, then finally swears with red-rimmed eyes, “When I pass the highest imperial exam, I’ll give you a life of honor and prosperity.”
Later, when he holds power over the entire court, the first thing he does is secure for her the title of First-Rank Imperial Lady.
Shen Zhaozhao: I was just raising a kid. How did I end up raising a chief minister with power over the whole realm?
