Exiled to a Poor Island, the Eldest Sister-in-Law Reclaims the Wasteland and Raises a Good-for-Nothing Soldier

[Exiled to an Island + Coastal Foraging and Seafood Feasts + Master Builder + Healing a Disability + Mutual Redemption]

After the Great Yong dynasty lost the war, Shen Nanqiao was stripped of her status and exiled as a scapegoat to Lingnan’s Deadly Island, a place rumored to be choked with miasma and barren of all vegetation. There, she was assigned to a household of disabled soldiers.

The other women wept and wailed. Some would rather become concubines to old men than stay on the island.

But Shen Nanqiao, a military doctor and master builder, gazed at the vast, surging sea and swallowed hard. How could this be Deadly Island? It was a natural all-you-can-eat seafood buffet!

Her assigned husband, He Lianzhou, had once been a young general who struck fear across the land. Now his legs had been broken, leaving him a brooding cripple whom anyone on the island could bully.

He sneered at her. “My legs are ruined. I can’t even stand. If you stay with me, you’ll only starve to death.”

Shen Nanqiao shoved a freshly pried-open oyster into his mouth.

“Be quiet and eat! I can heal your legs, but on one condition: once you can stand again, you’ll guard these waters, and I’ll take charge of everything in the sea. I’ll handle the logistics, and you’ll conquer the waves!”

At first, He Lianzhou thought the woman was crazy.

Later, when he was back on his feet and leading his troops to sweep away the pirates, he placed the deed to the entire island in her hands. “The whole sea is yours. And so am I.”