In a year of devastating drought, her husband is declared “killed in battle,” and her cruel mother-in-law throws Su Jinyao and her three young children out with a letter severing all ties.
With the land scorched for miles around, the widowed mother and her children are left to fend for themselves. Everyone expects to see their bodies lying in the wilderness. But by chance, Su Jinyao unlocks the space inside her green jade bangle! Within it are not only vast fields of fertile land, but also a spring whose water can save lives during the drought.
While others flee famine chewing tree bark, she hides in the space with her children and feasts. While others sell their sons and daughters for a mouthful of water, she uses the spring to grow crops and stockpile food, quietly building her fortune. Heading north, she not only nourishes her three gaunt children until they’re plump and rosy, but also takes in a band of scattered soldiers along the way.
Then one day, the father of her children, who was supposedly killed in the north long ago, suddenly “comes back from the dead,” clad in armor and accompanied by a hundred thousand cavalrymen, blocking her path.
As her despicable former relatives kneel and beg for mercy, the decisive and ruthless Marquis of the God of War doesn’t even spare them a glance. He pulls Su Jinyao tightly into his arms. “My lady, isn’t it time you took up your duties as mistress of the Marquis of Zhenbei’s residence?”
