After Our Home Was Raided, I Quietly Made a Fortune in the Miasma Forest

[Exile and farming + infrastructure and stockpiling + marriage before love + adorable contrast + powerful leads locked in a push and pull]

Shen He opens her eyes in a prison cart bound for exile in Lingnan, having become a sickly illegitimate daughter who took the blame for her elder legitimate sister.

She thinks she’s going to die in the wilds, where miasma hangs in the air and poisonous insects swarm, but unexpectedly awakens the [Compendium of Poisons in All Things].

The deadly poisonous plants others fear become life-saving medicine after she washes and cooks them.

The man-eating marshes everyone avoids yield high-yield, cold-resistant sweet potatoes when she digs them up.

In this lawless land, she clears fields and fills her granary, curing meat and drying vegetables. All she wants is a quiet, stable life.

But one day, while fighting over a nest of rare venomous snakes in the forest, she runs into Xiao Duo, the infamous border commander who kills without blinking.

Xiao Duo holds his bloodstained blade before her, looking down at her. “Where did you little brat come from? Do you want to die, wandering into the poisonous forest?”

Shen He shakily lifts a steaming bowl of detoxifying snake soup from her broken basket and looks up at him. “General, this soup can cure the cold poison in your body. Fifty taels a bowl. Try before you buy, and no credit.”

Later, heavy snow seals off the northern mountains and the border army runs out of food.

Just as Xiao Duo prepares to lead his remaining troops into a last, desperate battle, Shen He opens a hidden door behind her shabby thatched hut.

Pointing at the mountain of sweet potatoes and cured meat, she raises her chin. “Eat your fill before you go fight. But remember, I’m charging interest on all of this.”