[Northeastern Countryside in the 1970s, Mountain and Sea Foraging, Building Wealth Through Food, Sweet Young Woman x Rough-Edged Man]
Consort Nian loses the palace struggle and dies by striking her head against a pillar. When she opens her eyes, she finds a rough-edged man calling her his darling and holding her frostbitten red feet against his chest to warm them.
"If you really don't want to, I'll go get the marriage application back right now and send you out of the countryside to the city."
After her mother died, the original owner had to live in constant fear when her father remarried. She mistook a male youth sent to the village for her salvation, but all he wanted was for her to work. He even tricked her into asking Ning Ye for money, ration coupons, and precious college entrance exam prep books. Then her stepsister set her up, leaving her no choice but to register her marriage to Ning Ye.
The original owner despaired and went into the mountains, where she froze until she developed hypothermia.
But Ning Ye carried her home and gave her good food and clothes. He was just cold by nature. Gradually, she discovered that this rough-edged man had a tender side: he bought her flowers to wear, went into the mountains to hunt wild boar, and went out to sea to catch fish and earn money to build a brick house. His heart belonged to her alone.
The only downside was that he kept her up for half the night every single evening. She couldn't take it!
Back then, she only saw the emperor two or three times a month.
Even more unexpectedly, within a few days she was pregnant with triplets. In her previous life, the emperor had schemed to leave her childless.
Now she has both sons and daughters, and her rough-edged man turns out to be a thoughtful dad.
She also opens a restaurant, cooking iron-pot stews and Sichuan stir-fries, building wealth with her own hands. She rides the wave of the times, buying a bicycle, a sewing machine, a fridge, a color TV, and a washing machine. They even get a Mercedes, and her man encourages her to go to college, until she becomes a renowned professor and the heroine of her own life!
This time around, she's never been happier!
