[Farming and coastal foraging + gourmet food and infrastructure + satisfying exile story + lighthearted healing + a vivid ensemble cast]
On the day she transmigrated, to avoid being sold to a brothel, Xie Lingyuan boldly volunteered and landed a job that very same day: cook for Pei Huai, the military officer escorting an exile convoy.
But she soon discovered that not one person in the group was normal:
The Eastern Depot rebels plotted a coup every day, while the disgraced crown princess was always threatening to peel off her face and keep it.
The skinny old man who drooled whenever he saw her roast chicken was a deranged poison doctor obsessed with testing drugs on live subjects!
And the sickly little girl at her side was apparently playing the role of a possessive, lovesick villainess?
Even the seemingly most normal officer, Pei Huai, would later turn out to be a ruthless, celibate villain feared by the entire court...
Xie Lingyuan: What do you mean, everyone's a villain? I'll reform the lot of you! You're all going to behave and work the fields!
Disgraced consort, stop throwing tantrums and start producing short dramas.
Poison doctor, stop testing drugs and raise livestock instead.
Rebels, stop plotting coups and build infrastructure and high-rises!
And as for her?
Improve the saline-alkali soil and grow all the vegetables she wants.
Forage along the coast, raise shellfish on the tidal flats, and eat seafood feasts until she's sick of them!
Dig up crystals, hunt for buried treasure, trade pearls, and make grilled squid strips so popular they take the Western Regions by storm!
Even the covetous foreign kingdoms beg for a cup of milk tea!
No one ever expected an exile settlement that everyone avoided to become legendary thanks to one woman.
The nobles went wild for her, and even the emperor wanted to come over for a meal.
Xie Lingyuan: Sigh, what can I say? When it comes to charm, the whole settlement is in my network!
Anyone who wants to mess with her had better think twice:
The poison doctor's drugs, the disgraced consort's blade, the rebel's brick...
Oh, and the villain who's supposedly destined to turn evil...
How did he end up a doting, fiercely protective husband who's hopelessly in love?
Pei Huai (obediently):
