Exiled as a Substitute Bride, I Spoiled the Rugged God of War

Her whole family forced Lin Yin to take her legitimate elder sister’s place in a wedding meant to bring good fortune, then pinned all the blame on her.

As soon as her bridal sedan touched down, she was sent into exile in the frontier wastelands alongside Huo Xiao, the “Living Yama,” whose body was covered in old wounds and whom everyone avoided.

Everyone expected the two discarded souls to freeze to death on the barren plains.

But Lin Yin had a spiritual spring that could revive the soil and sprout crops, as well as reduce inflammation and ease pain.

She made a pact with Huo Xiao: she would grow grain, raise horses, and manage their supplies; he would help her establish herself and shield her from danger.

When spring drought struck their fief and the powerful cut off their food supply, even her former relatives tried to force her to surrender the spring.

Lin Yin struck back, turning barren fields into waves of golden wheat. Those who had declared she wouldn’t survive the winter lined up to beg her for grain. Meanwhile, Huo Xiao went from a shackled disgraced general to gradually reuniting his old troops.

But on the night the first shipment of military grain was stored, she found the same private seal hidden in the lining of a grain sack: the seal that had caused Huo Xiao’s exile and made her bear the blame...