[Farming + medicine + face-slapping and punishing scum + building wealth + sisters as foils + heroine transmigrates into a book, supporting female character is reborn]
Qiao Nuoning transmigrates into a book as a convicted woman exiled to the borderlands. From the start, she’s forcibly assigned to become the wife of a military household.
Her reborn cousin, Qiao Nuoxue, would rather be a concubine than marry anyone but Captain Lu, a rising officer about to be promoted to deputy general. She’s convinced he’ll help her turn her life around.
Qiao Nuoning doesn’t follow the usual script either. She chooses Pei Yi, a sickly, short-lived young man who lives with his hunchbacked grandmother.
Everyone mocks her for choosing a husband who’ll leave her a widow. Qiao Nuoxue waits to laugh at her, too. But who could have guessed Qiao Nuoning would cure Pei Yi and raise him into a man of both letters and arms, who would go on to take first place in the imperial exams and become the top scholar?
When Qiao Nuoning tells him, “I’m your wife. I’ll take care of everything and earn money to support you,” Pei Yi wants nothing more than to give her his whole heart. He willingly becomes her blade, her sharpest weapon, and obeys her every command.
No money or food at home? She gathers herbs, hunts, and starts a business, astonishing the whole city.
Toxic relatives causing trouble? No problem. If a beating won’t kill them, beat them until it does. Then split from the family and live independently.
Powerful officials and wealthy merchants trying to bully her? She’ll climb even higher than they have and keep them beneath her feet forever!
While her cousin is busy fighting for power in the Lu household, Qiao Nuoning has already turned the miasma-ridden southern rainforest into a treasure trove of resources.
And her once frail husband, who was on the verge of dying from illness, turns out to be a prince of an enemy kingdom, now helping her raise an army in revolt!
