Everyday Life of a Border Garrison Family

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Jiang Mian woke up one day and realized she'd transmigrated.

A dilapidated house, a drafty window.

Shivering from the cold, she saw a gaunt little girl beside her tug at her sleeve and point to her stomach, silently saying she was hungry.

Jiang Mian was dazed for a moment before realizing she'd become a shrewish woman in an ancient rural village.

The shrew's family was dirt poor. They ate soup made from wild greens and used battered old things. Her sister-in-law, who followed her around, was mute and couldn't speak. As for her husband, he was a frail, critically ill man confined to bed.

Jiang Mian: "..." [Taking oxygen like Sa Beining.jpg]

Had she been sent here to alleviate poverty?

After steeling herself, Jiang Mian decided that life had to go on, and no matter how hard things got, she couldn't go hungry. She rolled up her sleeves. She had two hands and a brain, after all. Surely she wouldn't starve.

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Xie Yi, son of the Minister of Justice, had been exceptionally gifted since childhood, the most brilliant young man in the capital and a figure of refined virtue.

After being framed, he went astray and became the treacherous minister who framed loyal officials and threw the court into chaos at the emperor's side.

At thirty, Xie Yi murdered his father and younger brother, wiped out the entire Xie family, and died in a sea of flames. Later generations erected a kneeling statue of Xie Yi at the Xie family's gate, where passersby cursed him.

When he awoke again, Xie Yi had returned to the age of eighteen.

His stepmother had framed him and ruined his prospects of an official career. He was exiled to the border with his young sister and forced to marry Jiang Mian, a woman notorious for her viciousness in the area.

If he remembered correctly, that shrew had run off with the family's money and another man, indirectly leaving his little sister to wander alone. By the time he found her, she had become a pile of bones.

Just as Xie Yi was preparing to draw his saber and kill that shrew, Jiang Mian came out of the kitchen with a steaming bowl of soup and smiled at him. "Husband, you're awake. Come have a sip~"

Xie Yi: ...

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[Reader's notes]

1. A restaurant-owning woman who builds her fortune through food x a scheming male strategist who only wants revenge but gets sidetracked by good food, arranged marriage to true love, with the couple bickering in their daily life.

2. Food and farming in the early chapters, building a fortune and conquering the land later on.

3. Set in an invented era, with some settings inspired by real history.

Theme: Love life.