Transmigrated as a Sacrificial Bride, I’m Doted on by a Rugged Hunter

[Period + Book Transmigration + Substitute Marriage + Rough-hewn husband who dotes on his wife + Strong woman and wild man + Face-slapping and punishing scoundrels]

Yan Zixi, a modern businesswoman, wakes up in a period novel as a cannon-fodder supporting character who shares her name. Her biological father doesn’t care for her, her stepmother is cruel, and her stepsister plots against her. They drug her and tie her onto an ox cart, sending her off to marry Zhao Jinsong, a feared hunter notorious across the surrounding villages.

Rumor has it he brings death to his wives, is violent, and kills without batting an eye.

The whole village expects her to wail and throw a fit. Instead, she kicks open the Zhao family gate, grabs the man by the chin, and says, “Zhao Jinsong, work with me and I’ll make sure you eat well and live comfortably.”

Zhao Jinsong is ruthless and a man of few words. He thought he was marrying a whimpering burden. But his new wife neither cries nor makes a fuss. Instead, she tears apart her stepmother’s schemes, follows him into the mountains at midnight, discovers his secret stock of Blood Dragon Grass, and promptly increases the profits from his long-exploited business tenfold.

From then on, the mountain wolves become wolves at his wife’s command.

The villagers all wait to see them make fools of themselves, but then they watch Yan Zixi open a factory, cultivate medicinal herbs, and win people over, turning the hunter’s once-dirt-poor household into the envy of the entire county.

Zhao Jinsong pins her against a wall and asks, eyes red, “You said you’d give me a good life. Do you mean it?”

Yan Zixi rises on tiptoe and kisses his lips. “I do. But first, you’ll have to help me kill someone.”