Exiled to the Frontier, the Convict Wife Reclaims the Wasteland and Helps Her Disabled Husband Thrive

[Exile and farming] [Marriage Before Love] [A versatile convicted woman] [Face-slapping the worst relatives] [Rising from rags to riches]

Jiang Wantang transmigrates into the body of a convicted minister’s daughter exiled to the frontier. As soon as she arrives at Kushui Fort, her relatives push her forward in exchange for grain, forcing her to marry a wounded soldier with a limp and a young nephew in tow.

Faced with barren, alkaline land and bitter well water, Jiang Wantang doesn’t panic. With her exceptional sense of taste and smell, she tests the water, reads the soil, and somehow turns what everyone else sees as a hopeless situation around!

Outsiders mock her for making a fuss over nothing? She turns bitter water into tofu, channels water to wash the salt from the soil, grows beans, dries vegetables, and opens a workshop! Not only does she manage to eat meat, she also helps the whole village, young and old, make a fortune. When her greedy, jealous relatives try to steal her know-how and reap the rewards, she tears into them until they question their own sanity.

At first, her limping husband considers her nothing but trouble.

Later, when a newly appointed, refined official in charge of farmland begins showing her special attention, the rugged man panics. He corners her in the middle of the night and says, “The land is yours, the workshop is yours, and I’m yours too. Who else are you still looking at?”