[Two Strong Leads] [Protective] [Sweet Romance] [Contrast to the Other Couple] [Rough Northeastern Heroine] [Two-Meter-Three Gentleman Hero]
With the war in Great Sheng finally settled, refugees appeared everywhere. The court ordered that all unmarried and widowed women in the land be given a man. Take one in, and pay no taxes for a year.
Guan Cuifen, a rough-hewn woman from the Northeast who stood five-foot-ten, woke up in the body of a five-foot-one waif, helpless under her stepmother's thumb. From the start, she was just in time to choose a man.
To avoid the head tax and break away from her awful family to establish her own household, she casually took home the big fool no one else wanted and named him Gou Sheng.
Her stepmother was harsh, her father spineless, her stepsister a scheming white lotus, and even the son-in-law who had married into the family dared to walk all over her.
Guan Cuifen's fiery Northeastern temper flared right up. She split from the family, set up her own household, reclaimed wasteland, built a house, made money, and casually ground her awful relatives into the dirt.
Other women took in a man and got another mouth to feed. The one she took in was a treasure: he could till ten mu of land by himself and knock down an ox with one punch. He worked like an ox by day, and was just as capable at night.
At first, she thought the fool was simply nice, strong, obedient, and protective of her.
Only later did she learn that the fool was none other than Yuwen Changfeng, the renowned Great Sheng general of the Zhenyue Army!
And she herself was no ordinary farm girl either...
[Bonus Scene]
In the imperial palace's great hall, corpses lay everywhere, and fine snow fell without a sound.
Yuwen Gou Sheng (Yuwen Changfeng) stood leaning on his halberd, blood dripping from its tip. Guan Cuifen (Zhou Xuanji), dressed in red and barefoot, sat steadily on his two-meter-three shoulders, looking down over the entire imperial city.
The court officials knelt in the blood. Not one dared raise their head.
You gave me food and shelter when I needed them. I'll stand up for you for the rest of your life.
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