[Devoted husband + fiercely protective + sharp-tongued + scientific animal husbandry + Insightful Eye + face-slapping + punishing villains + building wealth + comeback through the imperial exams]
On her first day after transmigrating, Lin Qian finds herself staring down a bowl of arsenic and a sick chicken.
She promptly pours out the poison and manages to save the chicken.
Before she can catch her breath, her bloodied hunter husband kicks down the door and nearly mistakes her for an enemy, raising his blade against her.
The house is bare, they have no savings, her husband is gravely wounded, and her younger siblings are so hungry they're chewing bark.
The family's only asset is a sick chicken.
The villagers all wait to laugh at her. What trouble could a lazy wife possibly stir up?
Six months later, Lin Qian's snowflake pigs sell for a fortune. Every pig in the village put together is worth less than one of hers.
A year later, her hunter husband passes the provincial exam, while one of her younger siblings is hooked on medicine and another has learned to manage the accounts.
Then one day, an imperial decree arrives from the heavens...
Pei Yuan: "Wife, it must be a decree granting you a first-rank noblewoman's title."
Chief Eunuch: "Chief Minister Pei, please step aside. This decree was issued by the emperor specifically for Madam Lin..."
Lin Qian: "All I know how to do is raise pigs! Could it be..."