Exiled to the Borderlands: I Tame Water Beasts, Farm, and Cherish My Husband

[Exile] [Beast Taming] [Farming] [Two Strong Leads] [Sweet Romance] [Protective] [Rise to Power on the Frontier]

The entire Shen family was framed for colluding with the enemy and exiled to the bitterly cold northern frontier. In the capital, everyone was waiting to hear that Shen Qichi, a fisherman's daughter, had died.

But they didn't know that this woman, raised in a water town, was naturally skilled in the water and could read its currents. Her talent for taming beasts was peerless.

An injured otter would brave fire and water for her. Fierce fish eagles obeyed her commands and caught fish. Even the snow otters in the snowy mountains recognized her as their master.

And nobody knew that her "frail" husband, Xie Yanci, was a former Imperial Guard general who had volunteered to share her sentence. He had once routed thirteen Northern Di camps with a single spear.

No water in the bitter frontier? She found a living spring, dug canals, and irrigated the land to grow crops.

No food? She chiseled through ice to raise fish and stored fresh produce in ice cellars, turning Heishui Town into the northern frontier's land of fish and rice.

Local bullies seized land, corrupt generals demanded bribes, and enemies came after her. She rolled up her sleeves and stood by her family to the bitter end. "Anyone who lays a hand on my family had better answer to the beasts in the water first."

When the Northern Di cavalry descended on the frontier and the Wei faction in the capital closed in with its deadly plot, the straightforward couple finally discovered that the shocking secret behind the Shen family's framing was hidden beneath the ancient spring at the edge of town.

How could a place of exile become the birthplace of an empire?