Five years of giving in secret earn her nothing but a written order for her husband to take a concubine. Song Zhiyuan comes to her senses, walks away, and heads back to a remote mountain village.
Everyone laughs at her, a country woman whose engagement has been called off and who has no one to rely on. They say she’ll starve to death in the mountains sooner or later.
But no one expects her to use the land as her board and medicinal herbs as her pieces, setting an audacious plan in motion to monopolize the medicine trade across the realm.
Behind her, Xiao Jingyan, once a “junior steward” who signed a deed of servitude and complained that his medicine was bitter, quietly wipes the blood from his blade, revealing the possessiveness of a wolf on the open plains. “Boss, you handle the money in this game. Leave the killing to me.”
