[Historical fantasy + strong heroine taking down scumbags + face-slapping her ex-husband's whole family + raising children + no transmigration + no rebirth + mutual salvation]
Lin Dongsui had been married into the Li family for three years without bearing a child. She worked herself to the bone to support her husband through the scholar's exams, only to receive divorce papers in return.
Her ex-husband grinned smugly, his arm around the county magistrate's daughter. “What use is a barren hen? Are we supposed to keep her until New Year?”
Her greedy family considered her an embarrassment and planned to sell her by weight to a brothel to pay off her brother's gambling debts.
Just as she was driven to the end of her rope, the village blacksmith, Huo Qiye, with his scarred face and fearsome aura, kicked open the door.
This living King of Hell, who was rumored to be unable to have children and whose mere presence could silence crying babies, slammed thirty taels of silver onto the table.
Dongsui thought she'd merely traded one pit of fire for another. She never expected this rough man to be so tender, or to quietly foist three little street urchins on her for entertainment.
Years later, her ex-husband was imprisoned for corruption. But then he saw the supposedly “childless man” from back then dressed in a princely robe, while the three little beggars had become the new top scholar, a general who guarded the nation, and the richest man in the land!
Scholar Li: Dongsui, I was wrong. Let me come back!
Huo Qiye (sneering as he draws his blade): What stray dog dares bark at the mistress of my household, Huo Yuan?
Lin Dongsui: Husband, don't dirty your hands. Damao, Ermao, Sanmao, sic the dogs.
Damao, Ermao, Sanmao: (Heh. Back when we begged for alms in the imperial capital, this Li fellow wasn't even fit to carry our shoes!)
Awesome, wonderful! Looking forward to updating soon!