Comeback from Desperate Circumstances + Farming + Borderland Development + Sweet Romance
Resilient Wildflower vs. Fallen Prodigy
Qin Sheng has been thinking about her great benefactor, Crown Prince Xiao Yeming, for many years.
Xiao Yeming is a heaven-blessed prodigy, someone far beyond her reach.
As a disowned daughter of a general's household, she can't even meet him, much less repay him.
Then one day, the crown prince is falsely accused, stripped of his title, abandoned by everyone, and exiled five thousand li away.
Even his fiancée gets together with his younger brother.
Her scumbag father finds Qin Sheng and says, "Your younger sister was born with the fate of a phoenix and is destined to be empress. You can take her place and marry the deposed crown prince. In the future..."
Without hesitation, Qin Sheng replies, "I'll take her place, but I want ten thousand taels of gold, a thousand loads of grain, a hundred shops, and ten residences..."
After fleecing her scumbag father for a fortune, Qin Sheng climbs into the prison cart in her wedding dress and drags the gravely wounded, dying crown prince back from death's door. "Don't die just yet. I saved you, so you have to give me a good life!"
For her sake, Xiao Yeming grits his teeth and claws his way out of the mire.
They plant crops!
They build roads!
They defeat foreign invaders and quell internal rebellions!
They secure the borders and keep the people safe, recruit soldiers and build their forces, growing stronger by the day...
Until Xiao Yeming can return to the heights and rule the realm.
Later, after repaying her debt, Qin Sheng is ready to leave. She smiles at him and says, "From now on, you can sit on your high throne, while I rest on a mountain of gold."
Even the emperor, master of all under heaven, can't keep her by force. He can only let her go in public while secretly pursuing her by every means. Night after night, he offers himself as her pillow. "A mountain of gold is cold. Without me to warm your bed, can you really sleep?"
