On their wedding night, her husband handed her a letter demoting her to a concubine. "The Shen family has been convicted and exiled. If you know what's good for you, you'll demote yourself to a concubine. The Song family will keep you fed."
Shen Tang flipped the table right there. "A whole family of spineless bloodsuckers thinks they can lecture me about rules? Get lost. I'm not here to support you!"
She slapped a divorce and severance letter in the scumbag's face, then emptied the Song family's secret vault overnight and hired a carriage to head straight for the bitterly cold borderlands.
Everyone laughed at her for becoming an exile on the frontier, certain she'd freeze to death in the blizzards beyond the border.
But no one knew Shen Tang carried a military supply warehouse worth hundreds of billions in her personal space!
And no one knew the entire Shen family were killing machines:
Her father was a saber-wielding war god, her mother could hit a target from a hundred paces, her brothers were heavily armored reapers, and her sister-in-law could lift a giant cauldron...
During these famine years, when there wasn't enough food or clothing, others gnawed on grass and tree roots, while the Shen family's courtyard was full of copper hot pots, sizzling lamb slices, and the aroma of self-heating hot pot that carried for miles!
Later, the court cut off their pay and foreign enemies invaded. The Song family in the capital was seized and exiled to the borderlands for embezzlement.
Covered in mud with both legs frozen stiff, Song Ziqian huddled in the snow begging for food. He looked up and saw Shen Tang sitting atop the high city wall in a luxurious fox-fur coat, casually peeling a mandarin.
The Shen family's eight thousand iron-armored troops gleamed in the sunlight, while the people knelt and called out, "Miss Shen!"
Her ex-husband promptly regretted it so much he spat blood and fainted. So his path to success had been paved with Shen Tang's flesh and blood!
Shen Tang rolled over in comfort. "Those who make promises to me or tell me to sacrifice for others can go wash up and get to bed."
Want to climb to the top on my back? My blade is quick, but all I want is to eat meat every day and live easy out here beyond the border!
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