Su Wan was reborn during her marriage to the Marquis of Jingyuan. In her previous life, she was imprisoned and tortured by the elderly Marquis. She suffered humiliation and eventually died of cold and starvation in a deserted side house. On the day of the wedding, Xiniang forcibly tied her up and put her in a sedan chair. Su Wan pulled out the golden hairpin and held it against her neck to refuse the marriage. Taking advantage of the panic among the Su family and the Hou family, they fled to the government auction house.
She spent eight taels of silver to take pictures of three things that no one cared about: a saline-alkali wasteland slope, a sick horse waiting to be slaughtered, and the mute groom Lu Chuan with a broken leg. Regretting the marriage caused many difficulties: her parents' family demanded her late mother's belongings, the Hou family came to hold her responsible, and her fellow villagers mocked her for living in a stable and not being able to survive for a few days.
Su Wan took root in the wasteland and improved the soil quality according to the seasons: digging alkali ditches at Jingzhe, using manure and plant ash to build seedling hotbeds at the Spring Equinox, and planting various vegetables during the Qingming Festival. The cold wave of Grain Rain hit, and all other vegetable seedlings were frostbitten, but hers was the only one that thrived and broke through the ground.
She sold vegetable seedlings to save money and food, transformed wasteland to cultivate pasture, cured sick horses to build a freight team, and turned the barren slopes into the leading thoroughbred horse farm in the North. As they spent time together, Su Wan discovered that Lu Chuan had extraordinary abilities. He knew how to set bones, train horses, plan water canals, and identify visitors just by the sound of horse hooves.
The border war was urgent, and a large number of Zhenbei troops gathered at the racecourse and knelt down to beg their coach to return to camp. Su Wan took a wooden shovel to question the groom who accompanied him day and night, and Lu Chuan took out the tiger charm and confessed his identity. This anonymous general lurked here, just to protect her safely and accompany her to guard the field cultivated by her own hands.
