The Lucky Wife Who Brings Her Husband Fortune: She Marries a Poor Scholar, and He Becomes Chief Minister

Everyone in the surrounding villages said the third daughter of the Gu family was a jinx. After her family fell into decline, her uncle and aunt dumped her on a sickly, impoverished scholar to bring him good luck through marriage.

On their wedding night, the scholar’s face was ashen, and he coughed as if he were about to breathe his last.

Gu Xiaoya rolled up her sleeves and slaughtered the only hen they had that laid eggs.

“If we’re going to die anyway, we might as well die with full stomachs.”

The scholar survived.

After that, his headaches stopped, his chest no longer felt tight, and he could recite his essays with ease.

Later, he rose from provincial top graduate to metropolitan top graduate, then national top graduate, and finally to the highest seat of power. Whenever he looked back, she was always there behind him, smiling sweetly.

Everyone praised the Grand Secretary for his restraint and devotion to public service, and for keeping his distance from women.

Only the people in his residence knew that every night, the master would carry a basin of foot-washing water and softly knock on the door of the main bedroom.

“My lady, can your husband come back to our room tonight?”