The Exiled Little Chef: My Bandit Husband Starts a Rebellion

One imperial decree is all it takes to confiscate the entire household of the Zhen Guo General’s residence and exile the whole clan to the bitterly cold northern frontier. Shen Qinghe sees her family weeping together and takes charge of them all. No food on the road to exile? She gathers ingredients from the land and turns a handful of wild greens into a feast fit for the imperial kitchens, leaving the escort guards drooling. Someone bullies the old and young in her family? She smiles and prepares a table full of delicious dishes, then beats them until they’re crawling on the ground. When they pass through Heifeng Ridge, the bandit chief abducts her and takes her up the mountain. Shen Qinghe: …Fine, I’ll make the best of it. So she clears land, plants crops, and develops new dishes, transforming a bandit den so poor it can barely feed itself into the most prosperous place in the northern frontier. When refugees arrive, she feeds them; when soldiers arrive, she fills them up; when heroes from all corners of the land come seeking her, she wins them all over with a bowl of rice! One day, her cold-faced, icy bandit husband finally can’t hold back. He drops to one knee. “Niangzi He, marry me. Two hundred thousand troops as your bride price, and the whole realm as your dowry.”